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5K weekend walking. Never let your disability get in your way from doing what you want. 
Next up 24 mile bike ride.

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I’ve been thinking more about wearable algorithms and adaptive modes.

Garmin recently introduced adaptive calorie logic — automatically adjusting nutrition targets based on activity output. That shows the system can evolve and recalibrate.

Which brings me back to my own experience — and to a much deeper question about how adaptability is prioritized.

In wheelchair (push) mode, VO₂ max estimation is turned off. HRV interpretation and recovery modeling remain tied to able-bodied baseline assumptions.

If the physiology doesn’t fit the model, the feature is disabled.

But what if the next step isn’t disabling a feature — what if it’s expanding the training data and recalibrating the algorithm?

There are elite wheelchair athletes. There are adaptive competitors. There are disabled athletes who walk, cycle, train, and push performance every day. Their physiology is different — not less measurable.

Adaptive nutrition logic proves recalibrating algorithms is possible.

Having a disability doesn’t require features to be turned off. It requires baselines to be built in.

So the real question becomes:

Are diverse, adaptive physiological algorithms that reflect disability baselines part of the roadmap?

And if not — why?

Inclusion in physiological modeling and algorithms isn’t a niche request.
It’s the next frontier of accuracy.

I’m an adaptive athlete and long-time Garmin user. I train with power-based data, care deeply about physiology, and pay close attention to how fitness technology measures effort and performance.

That’s why I’m struggling to understand this:

Garmin disables VO₂ max for wheelchair users due to a “lack of validated algorithms,” yet calculates VO₂ max for cyclists using power meters — a modality with enormous variability that Garmin already models successfully.

Power is power.
Arms produce mechanical work.
Oxygen cost is measurable.

I’m not asking for charity features or special accommodation. I’m asking a straightforward product question:

Why is equal work measured for bikes, but not for wheelchairs?

This is not a technical impossibility — it’s a prioritization choice. And that choice excludes disabled athletes from equal recognition of effort, performance, and fitness.

I would genuinely like to hear from Garmin product leadership about what specific barrier justifies this difference.

Garmin Garmin Fitness Garmin Outdoor

Walking isn’t my inspiration. Being able to is.

I walk because once, I couldn’t—and now I can.

What was one impossible will never be ordinary to me —and that’s the miracle.

I walk with respect for the version of myself who
couldn’t. I walk in appreciation for the fact that my
body lets me, not expectation.
Ability is something I honor.

Some days walking isn’t enough so I ride.
Today I am grateful that I can walk still.

My body is the clay I sculpt into the athlete I want to become. It may look effortless. But every step is a decision—and I keep choosing it, even if it feels impossible to me.
So, every day, I rise—
and I turn that impossible into possibility…

 Keep going

WELL, AIN’T THIS THE DAMN TRUTH.
HELL YEAH I LOVE THIS POST!

♥️Yoga-Health ♥️
So I’ve been having a lot of pain lately and I find this page to be very helpful regarding stretching out my pain. Normally, I don’t advertise pages, but I find it to be extremely helpful especially the way she shows the muscles as while stretching. 

So here’s my shout out to yoga Health thank you very much for your page! ♥️Fromdisabilitytopossibility✌🏼

And of course, it says my husband overreaching 😆

Gotta love it, there’s nothing like how you actually feel compared to what a watch says, and then the smart remark that AI app says😳😂

I say… ummmmm go with your gut instinct, how you feel is how you feel, and no algorithm is gonna tell you otherwise! ✌🏼♥️✌🏼

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