Edit coach training plan activity

And a good day to you, sirs! I'd want to tinker with an activity part of my Garmin Coach training plan, mainly to make warmup last until lap button press instead of just 2:00 (I want to know where I'll be when I'll start counting the miles, to better plan my course).

Opening the workout on my Instinct Crossover Amoled, I have an edit option, which sends a notification to my phone opening the Connect app into editing my activity. However, when I try to save it, an error always occurs. Is this a bug? Should I be able to apply modifications to such an activity and the app is not working as intended? Or instead I shouldn't be able to tinker with what my coach tells me to do at all, and being given an option to do it, albeit a non working one, is the real mistake?

0 trux 1 month ago

If you want to edit Training Plan workouts, you have to select a Self-Guided plan. Editing is not available at the standard adaptive plans. However, you can create your own workout, and do it instead of the one suggested by the Coach. As the Coach Plan is adaptive, it reacts on the change of Training Load, and of other performance metrics, and adapts the plan accordingly.

0 His Dudeness 30 days ago in reply to trux

Damn, so the given possibility to edit the training is a false hope, the option shouldn't be there in the first place. Am I correct in presuming the activity won't be counted in the Coach Plan if I start my own activity, even if a superset of the coach's one, instead of selecting the predetermined one in the plan?

0 trux 30 days ago in reply to His Dudeness

As I wrote, you can either use a self-guided plan, where you can edit the workouts, or you can do whatever you want, with or without a workout, and the plan will adapt automatically. No editing needed. And it does not matter whether the scheduled workout is marked as executed, or not.

0 His Dudeness 30 days ago in reply to trux

I see. My OCD would throb if I didin't progress in my coach plan in a matter that would be recorded by the app tangibly. Guess I'm stuck following the exercises as they are or switch to daily suggestions/external plan. Thanks!