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Sharing custom workouts...again

I could have resurrected similar requests for this from posts over 9 years ago as this has been a long-standing annoyance. Back in the day of Garmin Training Centre it was easy to share custom workouts with others. But that functionality has long gone. Recently I've been wanting to share workouts with my wife but there is still no easy way to accomplish this. I have tried copying the .fit file directly to my wife's watch but that doesn't work...unless I'm missing something.

Any thoughts? I have requested this several times through the 'proper' channels.

0 seilogramp over 4 years ago

Dr Phil said:
I have tried copying the .fit file directly to my wife's watch but that doesn't work...unless I'm missing something.

You should be able to copy the workout fit file from the \GARMIN\WORKOUTS folder on your watch to a common location then back onto your wife's watch, same folder. Unless there is some specific information that ties the fit file to your watch or your account when it moves from the NEWFILES folder to the WORKOUTS folder.

I don't have another Garmin user or watch in the family so I could only test this on my own.

Created workout in Garmin Connect Web, then sent workout to watch using Garmin Express
This caused 2 fit files to be created on the watch \GARMIN\NEWFIILES folder
Disconnected watch from PC
Verified workout was now on the watch
Connected watch to PC
\GARMIN\WORKOUTS folder now contains file B7KJ3212.FIT
Copied B7KJ3212.FIT to my PC
Disconnected watch from PC, and deleted workout from the watch
Connected watch to PC and copied back B7KJ3212.FIT to the watch \GARMIN\WORKOUTS folder
Disconnected watch and verified workout was now on the watch (again)

0 Dr Phil over 4 years ago in reply to seilogramp

seilogramp said:
You should be able to copy the workout fit file from the \GARMIN\WORKOUTS folder on your watch to a common location then back onto your wife's watch

That's what I thought but has not turned out to be the case. Tried separately copying the file to the NEWFILES folder (where it disappeared but did not appear on the watch) and directly to the Workouts folder where it remained but did not appear on the watch. Following each test I shutdown and restarted the watch before looking to see if the workout was there.

0 seilogramp over 4 years ago in reply to Dr Phil

Could you zip and post your workout here? Maybe we could look at the details of the fit file to see what's going on.