When I go on a brisk walk and using the outdoor walk setting, the app will record my VO2max. However, when I am mowing with a walk behind mower almost jogging behind it, going up and down hills, the outdoor walk setting will never register a vo2max even though I am in zone 4 heart rate. I barely get out of zone 2 heart rate with I am walking and getting a VO2Max.
HUH. what I am doing wrong?
This maybe it or the vibration. I put it on my ankle and it did collect VO2Max.. Now just have to get something to insulate the handles from from my hands. The reason I go through this is I can only get up to 120bpm while walking down the road but I can easily do 135 or 140 for 10 to 15 minutes while mowing. I can get a high bpm on the treadmill and elliptical machines, but those are indoors thus no vo2max..
This maybe it or the vibration. I put it on my ankle and it did collect VO2Max.. Now just have to get something to insulate the handles from from my hands. The reason I go through this is I can only get up to 120bpm while walking down the road but I can easily do 135 or 140 for 10 to 15 minutes while mowing. I can get a high bpm on the treadmill and elliptical machines, but those are indoors thus no vo2max..
I also said on May 16 "It may also be expecting your arm to swing to detect cadence, whereas it is steady on the mower handles". More success on the ankle backs that up
It may also be expecting your arm to swing to detect cadence, whereas it is steady on the mower handles.
Unless the vibration is affecting it, it should register. Does it show distance yards or miles like a straight walk does? If not then maybe GPS can't record any distance if the lawn is too small.
Target the 3 rings, forget the VO2 would be my advice
I agree, but pushing the mower up and across the mountain where I live is tiresome.. BTW.. 75year old with heart problem and 2 blown disks in lower back.. It is those **** disks that make me hurt so bad that I do slow down a lot.
I can gert a better workout from the mowing though than from the elliptical or treadmill at the gym. I do manage to get into my vo2max range for quite a while sometimes.
I will try different things when it drys up enough to mow. I just do not think I am getting an accurate reading walking down my road and avoiding the cars, trucks and dogs along the way.
I understand! I am only 3 years younger than you but I walk at 16 minutes per mile for 3 miles (48 minutes) 3 or 4 ties a week to get some VO2 max readings.
I would probably forget about VO2, I don't even know what it means exactly, and just concentrate on the Kcalories and try to close your 3 rings several times per week. You can reduce the red ring target KCal from the standard 500 and the green ring minutes to a lesser if you want.
The reason I am trying to get a good VO2Max is my childhood asthma is coming back, I thought I had outgrown it, but the respiratory doc says that you don't outgrow it and indeed their test said I was still having it. So I wanted a method to get an idea of where I was every so often.
I am down to either vibration on the hand causing screwing with the watchOS, or RFI from the engine. It used to be that I could not wear bluetooth earphones when pushing the mower but I have not had that problem in quite a while. Research will continue, a 75 year old man with asthma and Aspergers has to have a challenge.
Yes, stats look like they should.
Maybe you need to work longer and harder. 25minutes per mile for 15 minutes is a short stroll.
No VO2Max when mowing with a walk behind mower.
