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June 16, 2025 28 mins

You trust your Garmin with your life—your PRs, your recovery, your entire fitness journey. But what if that trust is dangerously misplaced? There's a catastrophic flaw in Garmin's training logic that's flying under the radar, and it's putting athletes who do MORE than just run at serious risk. Every game of basketball, every HIIT session, every intense activity you don't meticulously log the right way is invisible to your device. Your watch thinks you're resting, pushing you to train harder when you're already on the brink of collapse. It's a one-way ticket to overtraining, injury, and total burnout. The alarms are being sounded in explosive threads on Avonetics. Top users are exposing how their devices are giving them disastrously inaccurate training recommendations, turning their multi-hundred dollar watches into expensive recovery-time guessing machines. The arguments over how to properly track these high-intensity, non-running activities are fierce. This isn't just about one missed workout. It's a systemic failure that calls into question everything: heart rate monitor accuracy, the reliability of your training load, and whether you can EVER truly trust Garmin's recovery metrics again. Are you getting real data or just digital junk? We're diving deep into the methods the pros are using to fight back, from secret activity settings to manual load adjustments that force the Garmin ecosystem to see your TRUE effort. Stop letting your tech sabotage you. For advertising opportunities, visit Avonetics.com.

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