Garmin Coaching HM plan by Jeff Galloway

I am training for a HM goal of 1:54 with Jeff's plan. I read lot of forums where people mentioned that its only meant for those who want to run-walk-run during the race. I was wondering if the training plan is only effective if we are planning to run walk or it should work for either cases?

Also, Can anyone please share their experience of training with Jeff's plan and if they were able to achieve their goal? I am right now confused if I should continue with this plan or switch to other coaching plan being offered.

Thanks in Advance.

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0 Aviatrix over 2 years ago

If you type "Galloway" in the forum search box, you will find many people discussing the very high training load of later workouts, and what seems here to be an admission from a Garmin employee that there is some kind of mistake in the workouts.https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/running-multisport/f/forerunner-45-series/263824/how-garmin-developers-got-galloway-s-10k-training-plan-wrong/1490896#1490896, but over here another Garmin employee saying they checked with the coach and the 800m repeats were correct: https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/running-multisport/f/forerunner-245-series/187588/coach-galloway-10k---really-heavy-loads/1093840#1093840. (Look for the first commenter in each thread with "Garmin" in their user name. There is another problem with the workouts in that you're supposed to run four minutes on, thirty seconds off (or some other interval depending on your speed), but there is no way to have the watch track that timing for you.

I was on a Garmin Coach FB page in the past, and Galloway seems to be a love-it-or-hate-it choice. Some people do run-walk-run the races, and Galloway recommends this, but the idea is that it gets you fitter for whatever style you use, because the RWR style allows longer training distances without injury.

My first time through one of these program I used Amy, and workouts were reasonable, but the watch definitely did not use the data it had on my heart rate and speed to set targets for workouts. Whatever you choose, don't overdo it and get injured.

0 6991371 over 2 years ago in reply to Aviatrix

Thank you so much for your reply, in fact I have started following his plan but with a caution wherever it feels little too much.