Can't Share Garmin Connect 'Workouts' to friends or groups.

Would indeed be a great feature to share the work-outs via group and the group calendar.
Additionally, it would be very nice to be able to use relative variables while building a structured work-out. For example a percentage of a threshold pace, or 10k pace or something alike. This would enable me to create a similar work-out for the group, where some have a slightly different pace but do follow the same work-out.

This has been talked about on Garmin for a number of years. My feeling is that it is unlikely to happen as it is effectively providing a coaching service in all but name. This is something that you can get from the fee charging sites. As such, I cannot see Garmin providing this for free, if they ever do go down that route.

Back in the day of Garmin Training Centre it was a simple matter to ship out the workouts created in there to athletes I coached who had suitable device. Since the demise of GTC, I have had to make different arrangements to achieve the same ends.

I can also understand that. I really love the way Garmin implemented the structured work-outs. I feel that with little changes, this could indeed evolve into some kind of coaching service. To be honest, I believe that it would be a unique selling point that will attract even more athlete to buy Garmin devices.

It's something that other sites do provide but as fee paying so it would hardly be a unique feature. Since coaches (mostly) get paid for their service, it's not unreasonable for them to pay for a service, passing the associated costs on as the cost of doing business.

Garmin would be unable to determine who's providing a service for free and who's providing a service for a fee so they are unlikely to offer anything to assist coaches. That said and noted above, back in the days of Garmin Training Centre I would write the plans in my GTC, export the associated workout files and have my clients load them into their GTC and send them to their device. It's not beyond the realms of possibility to be able to make that happen today. Might be worth investigating.

i too would love to be able to share a workout i designed with my friend.

For those with devices that mount as a hard drive when connected to a computer, this might work:

1..Create workouts in GARMIN Connect on the interweb.
2. Send them to your device.
3. On the mounted drive, go to the NEWFILES folder. The workout .fit files should be there.
4. Copy the workout .fit files.
5. Send them to your friends and have them put them in their NEWFILES folder.

The other option is to get a copy of GARMIN Training Centre and use that to create and distribute the files.

ShareWorkoutFiles looks very interesting. Just need to get the word out there :)

Once you have built up some files it might be nice to have an app which would allow downloading them directly onto capable watches (735XT, 935, Fenix 5 etc).

Thinking about it further easiest way might be:
- Garmin app provides option to 'fake' a login via Oauth2, which opens website on connected phone
- User runs search to find appropriate workout on phone webview and selects workout
- Workout ID is then returned to phone, which passes it back to Garmin app as 'auth token'
- App makes a request for a FIT file passing in the token and presents the returned file for running

As mentioned before, happy to help on the app side :)

Below are some details from a Chrome addon that works. I use Firefox for web browsing but downloaded Chrome and the extension - the process of having to copy over each workout is a little time consuming but it works and is still far quicker than re-writing each workout. I'm not associated with the extension author.

Here's the info from the extension download page (I've added a few words to clarify the process):

This extension enables Garmin connect users to share workouts with each other, a feature that doesn't exist (on Garmin) today. In order to use it, the user who likes to share his workout should go to his Garmin connect account (while using Chrome), and choose the workout he likes to share and download it using this extension. Afterwords he can send the downloaded JSON file to any other user who is interested in this workout. This user (who receives the file) needs to upload the workout file (to his/her Garmin Connect - also using Chrome and the extension). He should then have the workout saved to his account.

Here's the extension link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...hhihimki?hl=en I am so sick of having to find workarounds for things that don't work in the Garmin universe. The level of support on offer from the company and response to problems and requests is woeful.

Thanks for the pointer Moogarm. that chrome extension is really quite neat. We'd love to be able to feed workouts into it to make things easier for our users. Have reached out to the developer - hopefully he replies!

David

still no updates garmin in 2018
it's quite sad to realize there's no ability to share your workout to someone :/
all you can - use third party chrome addons etc