Sync problems: Training calendar runs don't show up, workouts don't sync at all

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For the past few weeks I've been unable to get my training plan from Garmin Connect to show up correctly on my Forerunner 235. When I navigate on the watch to "Training Calendar", it says to download your training calendar from Garmin Connect. I've tried this a gazillion times. I've wiped the entire watch back to factory settings multiple times, I've canceled and deleted my training plans and restarted with a different plan... without fail, none of the workouts show up in the training calendar on the watch. They are, however, hiding in the workouts section.

I've also discovered that new workouts that I make online with Garmin Connect aren't being synced. I've specifically gone into the app, selected the individual workout, sent it to the device, and Garmin Connect says it worked, the watch shows a transfer successfully finishes... no new workouts.

Anyone else having similar issues? And any idea how to fix it? I'm getting frustrated, the calendar view on the watch is key to keeping me on track.

Former Member · Accepted Answer

A workaround that worked for me was change one of the planned workouts a little (added 1sec to a training) and then is wants to upload all planned workouts again. This solved the problem for me at least for now. 
 Hope it helps you out as well.

trux · Answer

The solution is much simpler, and was mentioned many times in this thread, as well as in many other ones about similar topics. Simply add any dummy workout (it can be completely unrelated to the coach plan) to the schedule and sync. It will clear the queue, and workouts will be syncing fine again. Also, use the USB cable and Garmin Express, for the upload to the device. 
 Should it not help, you may have too many workouts on the watch, and may need to delete some of the old ones. Have a look at the following article for the instructions: Why is My Workout Not Syncing to My Garmin Watch? | Garmin Customer Support You can also do it by connecting the watch over the USB cable, and deleting the files in the folder //GARMIN/Workouts/

KeqinHe · Answer

Update: As suggested by one of the post, I added one second to tomorrow&rsquo;s schedule run on my Garmin app and synced again. Now the workouts for the rest of this week show up in the training calendar my watch. I&rsquo;ll try to sync as infrequently as possible from now on....

Garmin-Blake · Answer

Our engineering team is actively working on this issue. It has been given a high priority and we hope to have a permanent solution available soon.

Former Member · Answer

Works with my Fenix5S Plus. Thanks much!

MostafaMossaad · Answer

That worked. Thank you very much.

Former Member · Answer

Potential work around, I've been using Fenix 3 HR and only 3 weeks of a training plan was being sent to the device and the option to sync the entire calendar disappeared. 
 Solution, on the pc app, manually move the plan forward or back by a day or two, then re-sync the device. It should update the calendar

Former Member · Answer

This happened to me today. I just did the following and it worked. I entered a new random workout at the calendar and then I synced the watch and it updated everything

Former Member · Answer

A solution - a variant of what has been suggested above - is to delete the training plan on Connect, then re-add it (simple enough if you're using a Garmin plan, but not so easy if you've spent ages creating one, I guess!). 
 I guess it considers that the plan has already been sent, and if nothing has changed, it won't send it again? But with watches only holding a month or so's workouts at a time, that's not really practical!

Former Member · Answer

So today I figured that I'd had enough and if it was absolutely necessary I would try a hard reset to see if I could get the syncing to work and finally get my workouts to sync. I thought that I would give it one final go - an low and behold, syncing via a cable and my mac and the workouts feature now works (note: I had done this before and not just relied on the bluetooth sync from my phone and this hadn't worked previously) 
 Ultimately I don't know if this is the same for everyone else, but the feature currently seems to work... fingers crossed it will continue to work as it have been a right pain in the backside constantly checking my watch when I've been completing my workouts to check that I'm in the right zone/pace for the right amount of time - intervals have been especially interesting!

Former Member · Answer

For me, with a Fenix 3 HR, it worked when I selected an activity in my training plan, and changed the duration of the activity (added one second) and saved that particular activity. Then I synced my device and all activities were synced as they should :-)

DmitryTrofimov · Answer

After trying everything and even ordering a new Garmin Fenix 6, I've finally found a workaround that works reliably. You can export your workout as a .fit file and copy it manually to the watch using a cable. Just put the file in Garmin/Workouts folder. I don't know why Garmin Connect doesn't do it automatically, but it looks like it just skips some workouts and doesn't send them to the watch.

7521287 · Answer

Still have this problem today, 3 years later. A new watch, fully updated Pheonix 6, Garmin Workout. Only syncs once in a while. Rescheduling to the next day and then back, works. That is NOT a fix, it's a work around for the sloppy programming of Garmin Engineers. Common Garmin, you can do better than this.

Sync problems: Training calendar runs don't show up, workouts don't sync at all

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