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Garmin Connect Mobile Android How can my training load be "optimal", but my training status is reporting to be "unproductive"?

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How can my training load be "optimal", but my training status is reporting to be "unproductive"?

Daniel P. over 4 years ago

How can my training load be "optimal", but my training status is reporting to be "unproductive"?

Yesterday's run was one of my best times!

Garmin Connect information is very self-contradictory.

0 e7andy over 4 years ago

Training load is one of the parameters that will result in your Training status.

https://www.firstbeatanalytics.com/en/features/training-status/

There are lots written about how it works and it isn't easy so I will just give a couple of links.

https://www.garmin.com.my/minisite/garmin-technology/running/

http://www.tristupe.com/2019/10/garmin-training-status-explained.html

0 Daniel P. over 4 years ago in reply to e7andy

Thanks for the message/help.

0 4017833 over 3 years ago

Agreed. It is difficult to trust the computer in your wrist when it is so contradictory and glitchy! Sometimes the readings totally contradict each other or are even numerically different from watch to phone app!

Training load makes no sense when it tracks downwards after a hard 90km road bike ride, but upwards after only a 5km Zwift ride!

I am frustrated by the training load function because it doesn’t accurately reflect training load at all, but rather some strange algorithm that assumes an ever increasing training load is possible, but then penalises that extra effort for no apparent reason!

…might be time to ditch the Garmin and actually ride based on how I feel, rather than how a computer tells me to feel!!