Originally Posted by
GhostRider62
I'm 64
Garmin thought my VO2max was 73 last Fall. Thankfully, they downvoted me to 71 today. I suspect even Greg Lemond would not carry such a VO2 Max when he reaches 64. What a joke algorithm.
Is your HRmax set correctly? Garmin defaults to the standard 220 minus age estimate, or 156 for a 64-year-old male.
The white paper states that if your estimated HRmax is 15 beats too low, the error is 9%.
If your HRmax is 15 beats too high, the error is 7%.
If your HRmax is exact, the error is 5%.
