Comments on: Garmin’s Fitness Age metric explained

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 15:31:26 +0000

Thank you! I just want to add one suggestion:

“So for most precise Fitness Age calculations, it is recommended you link up a Garmin scale.”

I do not like this. Lots of us have measured body fat percentage using other means–scales we already own, skin fold calipers, a trainer, DXA, a trip to BodyWorlds, hydrostatic measurement, etc. Garmin’s effort to get you to exclude other–often more accurate–measurements is disgusting, for reasons from getting the most accurate health data to 21st-century anti-pollution and degrowth and donut economics.

Don’t buy their scale! Instead, please write to Garmin and tell them why you want to be able to enter measurements without buying yet another redundant piece of disposable electronics.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 20:06:06 +0000

In reply to Marko Maslakovic. Ok

By: Marko Maslakovic

Marko Maslakovic — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 14:32:10 +0000

In reply to Marc. Yes.

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 12:44:39 +0000

After reading some articles about fitness age, I am still missing the definition. If I am 50 years old and my fitness age is 45, can you compare my body to the body of a person of 45 years of age? What if that person of 45 years of age has a fitness age of 40? My best guess is that the definition would be that if my fitness age is 45, then I would have the same fitness level as a person of 45 that has an average fitness level for his/her age. Does this make sense?

By: Marko Maslakovic

Marko Maslakovic — Wed, 24 May 2023 12:03:35 +0000

In reply to Rt. That's the old metric. New watches have the revised calculation.

By: Rt

Rt — Wed, 24 May 2023 11:06:46 +0000

In reply to Dan Little. I am 52 and my fitness age on my Feneix 5 is 30.

By: calidor

calidor — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 07:37:02 +0000

In reply to Matt. I would be carefull saying that it then uses uploded values. Normaly data uploaded from 3rd parties are not used in challenges thus i would say that manually/3d party uploaded data for fat from other then indexs1/s2 are not used also;)

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 17:49:54 +0000

The best way of seeing how fit you are for your age is go race and see how you compare with best age groupers.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 21:27:28 +0000

In reply to Simon. Same with me my eipx 2 also tells me I've reached my achievable fitness age of 45 ! That seems to be it.....although I don't quite understand what it means....am i not just a fit 51 year old...am I as fit as sedentary 45 year old because a fit 45 year old will have a fitness age of 40....

By: Oded Zamir

Oded Zamir — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 19:04:32 +0000

I have Garmin MK2i and it the last few days my fitness age change dramatically from 35 to 32 to 31 and today to 26. My VO2Max is 44. I’m 67 yo. My heat acclimation is 100%. My BMI is 24 and my heart rate in rest is 51.
I still wonder how can it be 26!