If you wish to preserve a constant effort stage all through your exercises, establishing coronary heart charge alerts in your Garmin watch is a priceless trick to have up your sleeve.
What was as soon as reserved for Garmin’s extra feature-rich watches is now obtainable throughout all the lineup—whether or not you personal a Fenix, Forerunner, Venu, or one other mannequin.
Garmin lets you arrange particular alerts primarily based in your exercise profile. If coronary heart charge zones aren’t your desire, you can too select to arrange alerts associated to tempo, energy, cadence, energy, and extra.
The identical tough steps apply to these alert sorts, however we’ll deal with creating coronary heart charge zone notifications within the steps under.
Notice: Our check system is the Garmin Epix Pro (Gen 2), and the directions might range barely relying in your system.
Step 1: Go to start a brand new exercise
You may arrange coronary heart charge alerts regardless of your exercise sort. We’ve used working as our chosen sport right here, however you possibly can nonetheless comply with the identical steps.
Get began by urgent the ‘Begin/Cease’ button in your Garmin system to deliver up the listing of exercise profiles.
Step 2: Discover the exercise sort’s settings
Verify your chosen exercise by urgent the ‘Begin/Cease’ button once more. Then, press the ‘Up/Menu’ button to deliver up the profile’s listing of settings.
From right here, navigate to ‘Extra Settings’ after which discover the ‘Alerts’ possibility.
Step 3: Add a brand new coronary heart charge alert
Now you’re within the Alerts part of your chosen exercise sort, it’s time to arrange your coronary heart charge alert. Begin by tapping ‘Add New’, then choose ‘Coronary heart Price’.
You’ll be prompted to set your excessive alert first, so select the center charge zone you need as your most worth. As soon as that’s completed, do the identical to your minimal worth.
For instance, if, like us, you need to keep at 70-80% of your most coronary heart charge on most runs, choose the ‘Z3/Cardio’ choices for each your most and minimal worth.
For us, this implies we get an alert after we dip under 139BPM and if we go above 158BPM. It will range relying in your zones, which most Garmin units calibrate routinely.
Step 4: Regulate your alert values
Your alert is now arrange, however you possibly can nonetheless modify it. In any case, you possibly can solely have one coronary heart charge zone alert arrange without delay, and it’s unlikely you’ll require the identical alert for each sort of run.
To regulate this, faucet the ‘Coronary heart Price’ part (this could now seem beneath ‘Add New) and choose totally different values for the alert sort (excessive or low) you need to tweak.
It’s additionally right here the place you possibly can choose to take away your coronary heart charge alert.
Step 5: Start your exercise
With that, you’re all set. Press the ‘Again/Lap’ button till you’re on the exercise begin display screen.
Now, while you’re in a exercise with this profile, your coronary heart charge alerts ought to sound/vibrate per your system settings.
