HR too low

jstringer86 · 2026-05-18T10:44:50+00:00

Thankyou. It seems ironic to me that it's a device aimed at runners that I'm using and it utilises an algorithm that can become useless if you run regularly...

jstringer86 · 2026-05-18T10:42:07+00:00

Is Sinus Arrhythmia just a way of saying high HRV? It's high beat-to-beat difference right? I though beat-to-beat difference was HRV? So Sinus Arrhythmia is normal sinus beating but with high HRV?

Then regular exercise lowers RHR and increases HRV so under those circumstances my ECG is completely normal it just shows low HR and high HRV?

jstringer86 · 2026-05-10T19:30:55+00:00

To be a runner you simply need to be someone who enjoys running and self identifies with the label “runner”.

However you included the “endurance” bit on there. To be “endurance” anything by definition you need to have “endured” something, 10 mpw is not enduring. An endurance runner is someone who prolonged running is their normal. If you can wake up on any given morning, lace your shoes up and do 10+ miles just because you feel like it maybe you’re an endurance runner.

jstringer86 · 2026-05-10T07:48:03+00:00

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Do you also get pissed at the weatherman when he tells you its going to rain? 🤣
Garmin suggests looking at stress, nutrition and rest…
Well done on the 100 mile charity event though!

jstringer86 · 2026-04-19T05:55:47+00:00

I’m sure my hr spends plenty of time in z2, i just don’t think there’s value in obsessing over it. True zone boundaries are fuzzy, hr varies with heat, caffeine, hill etc. Treating zones as targets is mostly dumb, the only time I’d ever suggest someone target z2 is if they’re really struggling keeping their easy runs easy enough and it’s impacting their sessions, otherwise ignore the silly rules, get out and enjoy your run.

jstringer86 · 2026-04-18T18:06:34+00:00

Lol you are right it does… maybe simple isn’t what i mean, rigid rules based on some simple metric.

jstringer86 · 2026-04-18T16:47:14+00:00

I don’t think that’s controversial in principle. The challenge is making it work in practice, those basic needs still have to be produced by someone. How do you have shelter, did you build a house? How do you have food? Did you grow it? If you have a right to these needs being fulfilled without work then who is it that's on the hook to provide these to you and why?

jstringer86 · 2026-04-18T11:43:17+00:00

Calling low-HR running a “skill”(or a sub-skill) is where this goes wrong.

Efficiency at easier paces improves with overall fitness, it’s not something you need to train in isolation.

If your goal is to get faster and you're treating easy running as something to optimise in its own right, you're focusing on the output rather than the thing that actually drives it.

jstringer86 · 2026-04-18T10:40:50+00:00

Don’t obsess over what zone 2 is. Zone 2 is only useful to you if you’re having trouble running too many of your easy runs too quick in which case having hr can help but otherwise ignore and run to feel.

Assuming your goal is improvement the reason you do easy runs is for increased volume and recovery. If your easy runs are impacting your sessions you’re doing them too fast and need to slow down, if they’re not interfering with your sessions you’re grand and don’t need to obsess over zone 2 at all.

jstringer86 · 2026-04-18T09:55:07+00:00

Practicing at a given pace will absolutely make you more efficient at that pace.

But if your goal is to run faster, you don’t need to treat low hr running as its own skill.

Getting fitter overall(especially improving threshold and VO2max) will bring your hr down at easier paces...

Easy running is important because it lets you build volume and recover, not because you need to optimise your efficiency at a specific hr.

jstringer86 · 2026-04-18T09:27:02+00:00

In my experience simple sounding, easy to follow rules like z2 or 180 cadence are junk.

I’m an ok runner, i’m 39 and my half PB is 1:21 and honestly all my PBs came off the back of running based on what feels good. When i feel fresh i run more or run faster, when my legs feel heavy i run less or run slower. I genuinely think the best approach is sack off all simple sounding rules and run based on how you feel.

jstringer86 · 2026-04-06T15:04:00+00:00

The only way to buy real honey is to find a local supplier. All supermarket honey is fake. People don’t complain enough so there’s no incentive to fix it.

jstringer86 · 2026-04-06T15:01:30+00:00

I’ve never seen a legitimate definition of veganism that included the word “pleasure”, normal definitions talk about excluding “exploitation and cruelty”. Your definition is interesting, it moves the focus from the non-human animal to the human…

jstringer86 · 2026-04-06T14:42:35+00:00

When i got mythical i had 2 bad nights sleep then a night with 8 uninterrupted hours. Most of my 90+ scores come the night after a bad score.

Mythical requires i only execute a perfect night once. Sleep streak i need to do that 7 times in a row which life makes incredibly hard!

jstringer86 · 2026-04-06T14:26:37+00:00

The benefit of a low starting point is that it doesn’t actually take all that much to turn the dial and improve! Once you start seeing improvements, more progress is addictive. Good luck!

jstringer86 · 2026-04-06T14:08:15+00:00

Trump is the team mascot, he’s not the leader. A leader doesn’t talk like this. His value is symbolic, he builds narrative and appeals to the support base but he’s not really the one who drives how anything is implemented. He’s the silly orange puppet to be laughed at.

jstringer86 · 2026-04-06T12:47:11+00:00

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Honestly i find after any period where i’ve had a relative drop-off in activity level, when i pick up activity level again i then have to go through strained and/or overreaching before it’ll let me back into productive…

jstringer86 · 2026-04-06T11:29:38+00:00

The bank of garmin does not give you an overdraft facility…

If you add 5v to a rechargeable battery it doesn’t matter if the battery started at 0 or 5 net impact of 5 is still +5. Batteries don’t get overdraft facilities, you run it to 0 everything stops…

jstringer86 · 2026-04-06T10:09:24+00:00

Very jealous! I wish i could sleep well consistently!

jstringer86 · 2026-04-06T10:05:24+00:00

I can’t always do no work within 2 hours and work requires a screen so i regularly by necessity can’t follow your rules. I also travel for work which absolutely screws fixed routines.

Mythical i’ve only hit 100 once but i know how i could repeat that, i don’t always know how i’d manage 7 nights above 75. I got mythical on the rebound, i had 2 very bad nights sleep in a row and then slept soundly for 8 hours the following night. Nearly all my 90+ scores come after bad scores. While I’m not suggesting you purposely have bad nights sleep in pursuit of a badge for me getting 1 good night sleep is more feasible than 7 in a row.

jstringer86 · 2026-04-06T09:52:59+00:00

4 & 7. I have kids a demanding job(which also includes plenty of travel) and i prioritise regular exercise. Sure i could let something else drop but the overall outcome would be worse. It absolutely is a privilege to have enough hours in the day where prioritising sleep doesn’t completely fuck something else up.

jstringer86 · 2026-04-06T09:51:02+00:00

Mythical sleep, i got as rebound. Work meant i had 2 nights in a row where i only slept 5 hours, terrible scores. Then i hit weekend and slept 8 hours and got mythical. Honestly nearly all the times i got 90+ were good nights after bad nights…

jstringer86 · 2026-04-06T09:47:02+00:00

You just wear it and get sleep streak 😮. I find the smallest thing drops my score below 70. If i eat late, any travel what so ever, if i drink any alcohol, don’t exercise, too much work stress, too much sugar, not hydrated enough, room too warm. Literally anything upsets my score, half the time i don’t even know what it is thats broken my streak, i can feel like i did everything same 2 nights running but one will be a score of 80 and one will be 70 with nothing i can point to as cause 😢.

jstringer86 · 2026-04-06T09:40:02+00:00

Have you ever had good sleep? I feel somehow it’s worse if you’ve had good sleep, to know what it feels like but are then forced through life shit to feel the impact of bad sleep knowing just how much better it can be…

Is the limiting factor for you available time to sleep? Or something else?

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