Does anyone use this or know why mine thinks I was a sloth before having a Fitbit?
I swapped my old Samsung Active watch for a Google Pixel watch a few weeks ago. I was really interested in the features that said they could monitor my fitness and running and offer suggestions and targets for improvement, except it isn't pushing me to improve; it seems to be telling me to stop moving completely.
Before having the watch, I did 30-60 minutes of cardio/strength training per day plus walking, with a target of 10,000 steps, but I often hit 15,000 steps, especially on running days.
Week one of having the watch, it didn't offer much; it said it needed to find a baseline and that I had to wear the watch for 7 days to use most features. Fine, I get that. I did my normal activities that week.
Week 2, I had a cold and spent the weekend hungover, so I didn't do as much, but I still did something (30 mins of running 3 x a week plus daily walking)
Week 3, this week, I am back to normal and have been trying to use the watch to improve, except it keeps setting my target cardio load as 1-16 and telling me I am overtraining. A simple 15-minute brisk walk can take my cardio load to 5. The runs it is setting me are not runs; they are walks, and they always take me over my target cardio load. The second my heart rate rises on a run, it tells me to slow down. I am not improving my running if I listen to it; I am stopping running altogether.
I did have a Fitbit about 10 years ago, when I was overweight, and I think it has taken my base from then, but even then, I walked a lot more than it is telling me to now. How do I get it to catch up, or is this feature (the feature that made me want the watch) completely useless?
My target cardio load for today is 2-19, and I've used one point running to the loo after my morning coffee, so for the rest of today, it thinks I should just sit still and rest.