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Automatic calendar / adjustment of training plans

Hey.
It would be nice if the system automatically adjust the calendar of the training plans after a run / exercise.
I'm doing a training plan to improve fitness and after a run my recovery time is 2 days. But my training plan has a run scheduled for the next day, that I should not do according to my recovery time sugestion.
So it would be great if my training plan calendar was automatically adjusted after a suggested recovery time. At least ask the user if it wants to ajustes since the next workout / run is sooner than the suggested.
  • What you wrote makes little sense, in so many ways. Firstly,

    https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/forerunner235/EN-US/GUID-DAC27D10-886A-4EA8-8339-674479E9574A.html
    You can use your Garmin® device with wrist-based heart rate or a compatible chest heart rate monitor to display how much time remains before you are fullyrecovered and ready for the next hardworkout.


    https://www.firstbeat.com/en/consumer-feature/recovery-time/
    Recovery Time predicts how long it will be before your body is fullyrecovered and ready for your next intense fitness-improving typeworkout. Of course, you can still be physically active during the countdown, but if improved performance is your goal may be best to keep your workout activities light and refreshing until you have fully recovered.


    If you're claiming that every run in a training plan is a hard or intense fitness-improving type workout, then you have either not bothered reading the details of the activities in the plan, or failed in your understanding of what they describe.

    Secondly, each training plan in Garmin Connect has a time-based objective and not a performance-target objective, so letting the timing slip as the default type of adjustment or customisation defeats the purpose. If you're just after a general programme that takes you up to some (endurance) performance target, with constant monitoring/feedback/adjustment based on your actual progress, then you need a personal trainer (and probably need to pay, although nothing stops you from asking a well-qualified friend to act as your running coach for the price of a beer or as a personal favour).
  • LOL.
    Thanks for the detailed answer. Tho I'm quite new at using my 735XT with the HR chest monitor, but I've read quite a few things before posting help in the respective forum and next posting this suggestion.

    So, follow my thoughts.. I'm a noob at running.. I started a plan called "Improve your fitness level 1". In that plan Garmin tells me what trains / runs I have to do, the intensity of them and in what days I should perform them. If in my third run the system tells me I should rest for, lets say, 50 hours, before my next run, I won't be able to perform my next day run. What I simply suggested was a way of adjusting my calendar in a way that I can do all the runs of the training and still follow the recommendations of the training plan Garmin designed. I don't see where the problem is or where it fails, I must confess..

    What you could have answer me, is that I should not follow 100% the recovery time it was advised. If my body tells me I can run and the training wasn't that hard, ignore it and run. Maybe my HR zones are not correct and Recovery advisor is incorrect because I only had a few runs, etc etc.

    You just assumed it was my mistake and What I've suggested doesn't make any sense. Allow me to disagree, because it makes me a loot of sense. Being a user of Runtastic Premium features with a simple Huawei watch 2 and simple HR monitor, Runtastic allows me a loot more features (and I'm talking about software and customizing options). Let's say I have some life issues, and forget about recovery time advisor here, and I miss a weeks training. Why shouldn't I be able to just go to connect and reschedule my training plan so I can stick to it?

    I understand your second argument, but again, allow me to disagree...Tho it's a time based-based objective I don't see why it can't be adjusted to the person doing the plan. If the watch and the hr monitor is gathering the data that allows the same system to know if the person is fit or not, why not? It looks like my watch, my HR and connect can collect all this data from my runs (hr, v02 max, lactate, cadence, etc etc etc) but can't do a simple plan that adapts to me with all that data...

    You know training plans in runtastic are made only after the person do a test? and then adjust the plan to that persons level of fitness?

    Hope im not being misunderstood or rude, but you answer didn't make any sense to me.. Unless Garmin system is just for pros... If so, tell me and I go back to my Android Wear and return my 350€ watch.. LOL
  • pnobrega I think to some extent you are missing the point. The watch as per ASmugdill's comments is advising you on how long you have to be fully recovered before your next Intensive Training session. If you have an intensive interval session scheduled during that recovery period then the shedule won't move that session as you suggest that it might. I can see some logic in this but its just not the way the plans work - especially since the plans predate the recovery data being available in the watch and they have not really been revamped subsequently. The Garmin Coach plans seem to be moving more in that direction but I've only just started to try one out so not sure how adaptive they will be.

    As for a practical answer to your issue I would suggest that you manually move workouts - if say you have an intensive workout scheduled a short way into your full recovery period then swap it with an easy workout or delay it for a day.