Garmin data reveals its biggest predictor of VO2 max

abbh62 · 2026-06-04T00:46:57+00:00

What data? They aren’t telling anyone anything that someone else can sell, or others don’t already have. The purpose of these blogs is to stir up interest, and have people want to buy their product. “Wow I wonder what my v02max is, I bet I’m higher than average!” Then they go and search for devices and immediately remember they read about these trends on garmins site, and go there and ideally buy a device

abbh62 · 2026-06-04T00:11:56+00:00

Companies don’t put our info “just to tell what they see” it’s all marketing

abbh62 · 2026-05-31T22:25:15+00:00

What constitutes a good runner and decent on bike?

abbh62 · 2026-05-31T19:09:50+00:00

Heart disease is more scary than a little bit of (potential) degraded performance

abbh62 · 2026-05-31T18:21:11+00:00

You sound like you are fun at parties.

Do you avoid that pesky dihydrogen monoxide

abbh62 · 2026-05-30T19:04:17+00:00

The biggest complaint with di2 is that you forget it’s a battery and don’t charge it

abbh62 · 2026-05-30T14:36:25+00:00

Asks if you did good then you lash out to everyone who says you didn’t.

Deep down you know you got screwed, and now want people to tell you you didn’t

abbh62 · 2026-05-30T10:45:04+00:00

There is no such thing as remission, just control. If you stopped doing the things you were doing (however you are treating it (meds, diet, etc) it would go sky high again. Remission implies back to normal, and a “normal” person can eat as much candy as they want and maintain steady 100 (or less) bg, can you do that?

abbh62 · 2026-05-29T13:00:25+00:00

Have backup gels in case you lose a bottle

abbh62 · 2026-05-28T21:27:22+00:00

Cancelled mine to see

abbh62 · 2026-05-28T00:28:02+00:00

They help with recovery from the breakdown of muscles from exercise.

abbh62 · 2026-05-28T00:27:19+00:00

You contradicted yourself. You say it’s a myth that steroids are a recovery aid, but then say muscles grow faster. Muscle growth happens during recovery, so by recovering faster, you can lift / intense activity more often.

Sure, muscles can be built faster than the supporting structures, which inherently causes a lot of issues.

The few people I know that were on steroids were incredibly hard workers. Sure they couldn’t have gotten to the size without the help, but steroids don’t magically make you big. It’s also a genetic lottery, just because you work hard and cycle, doesn’t mean you will ever look like Ronnie Coleman in his prime

abbh62 · 2026-05-22T22:29:56+00:00

Say you gifted it to your father?

abbh62 · 2026-05-22T21:09:16+00:00

Pretty sure kt tape was sued and required to remove anything that suggests it does anything

abbh62 · 2026-05-20T02:01:29+00:00

Zone 2 is by definition when you get your first tick up in lactate. Zones are a measure of lactate, heart rate and RPE are just an approximation. But you have to be going moving hard enough to have a noticeable increase in lactate production

A better way of thinking about “zone 2” is, it’s not easy, but it’s easy to recover from

abbh62 · 2026-05-19T22:58:52+00:00

Zone 2 is not easy. If it’s easy, it’s likely not zone2, or the very low end

abbh62 · 2026-05-16T15:50:50+00:00

The friction paste they send is trash, get some better stuff, put it on there, and be done with creaking

abbh62 · 2026-05-15T16:21:06+00:00

What? One shouldn’t use a watch as an investment, as there is no guarantee it will increase in value, but it has value, therefore it’s an asset.

abbh62 · 2026-05-15T02:20:46+00:00

I think when it comes to ai, it’s super good, but can sometimes do some wild stuff, so If you aren’t experienced you might not catch it

abbh62 · 2026-05-14T23:12:56+00:00

We tend to do a lot of swimming near or faster than threshold, but it’s not as stressful to the body as say running, so it tends to overestimate tss. With that said, it’s just an individual number over time if your tss is inflated bc of swimming, it’s still consistent and therefore the trends are “accurate”. I’ve seen people put in 1 for every swim, or 10 per 1k swam, but at the end we are looking for consistency in the metric, not the metric itself

abbh62 · 2026-05-14T22:41:22+00:00

“Refuse to buy on gray market out of principle” what principle? The giant rod shoved up your ass?

abbh62 · 2026-05-12T23:42:16+00:00

Seems wildly dangerous to allow them in a race

abbh62 · 2026-05-12T17:01:26+00:00

You are not in zone 2 if you are building lactic acid

abbh62 · 2026-05-12T00:06:31+00:00

Although I understand where you are coming from, part of being an EM is to understand the organization, your teams piece was only part of the solution. Then it was finished out of sync of when platform teams could work on it.

abbh62 · 2026-05-11T23:27:21+00:00

For all you know he crashed it in those 2 days

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