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Garmin training status: what to check

Training status is Garmin’s view of your longer-term training pattern. Read the label with its explanation and recent data. It is not a judgement of your effort or worth.

Garmin training status: what to check

Training status is Garmin’s view of your longer-term training pattern. Read the label with its explanation and recent data. It is not a judgement of your effort or worth.

Why is my Garmin stress score high?

Garmin estimates stress from heart rate variability. The reading is not the same as a direct measure of how worried or calm you feel.

Why is my Garmin stress score high?

Garmin estimates stress from heart rate variability. The reading is not the same as a direct measure of how worried or calm you feel.

Garmin sleep score: how to read it

Garmin’s sleep score combines information about sleep length and quality. Use it to notice patterns, rather than to grade yourself after every night.

Garmin sleep score: how to read it

Garmin’s sleep score combines information about sleep length and quality. Use it to notice patterns, rather than to grade yourself after every night.

Garmin HRV status: what the labels mean

HRV is the variation in time between heartbeats. Garmin uses it in several features. A status label needs context: your usual pattern, the data collected, and what else is happening...

Garmin HRV status: what the labels mean

HRV is the variation in time between heartbeats. Garmin uses it in several features. A status label needs context: your usual pattern, the data collected, and what else is happening...

Garmin Body Battery: why it changes

Body Battery is Garmin’s estimate of energy reserves. It uses information such as sleep, stress, activity and heart rate variability. It is a helpful view of a pattern, not a...

Garmin Body Battery: why it changes

Body Battery is Garmin’s estimate of energy reserves. It uses information such as sleep, stress, activity and heart rate variability. It is a helpful view of a pattern, not a...

Garmin numbers explained

You do not need to follow every number on your watch. Start with the question you want to answer, then choose the reading that helps.

Garmin numbers explained

You do not need to follow every number on your watch. Start with the question you want to answer, then choose the reading that helps.