New Garmin heart rate-related feature spotted by users

Recovery Heart Rate, measured in BPM, indicates how quickly your heart rate returns to its usual rate following exercise, with faster recovery typically linked to a higher level of fitness. Historically, users would need to wait around two minutes after an activity for their wearable to calculate Recovery Heart Rate. In other words, users were required to wait before saving their data. Now, you can save your activity data as soon as you finish your exercise, with the calculations automatically populating after the two-minute measuring window. This also means that the metric has been added for historical workouts in Garmin Connect.

Despite this improvement, the Recovery Heart Rate is still calculated for each activity, making it hard to track changes. It is unclear why Garmin did not mention the new feature in its changelog for update 18.22 for Forerunner 955 and Forerunner 255 smartwatches. It could be that the tool is only available for users signed up to the Garmin Beta Program, though this has not been confirmed.