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Goal Streak Protection

Goal streaks are a nice way of identifying when you are trending in the right direction. However, the structure for them within Garmin is too rigid.

For example, in order to maintain a goal streak when I travel across time zones (in particular travelling East and "losing" time), I have to either plan ahead and reach the goal before I travel or turn off the Bluetooth on my smart watch so that I can meet the goal before the day would have ended if I stayed in the same time zone.

Similarly, if I miss the step goal by even a few steps, despite overachieving either the day before or the day after, losing the goal streak can be actively discouraging and it then takes even more motivation to get started on a new streak.

It would be much better if once a week (or even once a month), provided your average steps per day are over the stated goal, the streak could be preserved to accommodate the fact that, when you think about it, midnight is as arbitrary a threshold as 2:39PM.

0 trux over 1 year ago

You can change the Steps Goal whenever you want, even several time per week, if you want. That should help you in most cases.

0 Hessica over 1 year ago in reply to trux

Unfortunately it doesn't help unless you know it's going to happen and it's at the top of your mind.

Consider the situation where you make a considerable effort in the morning or afternoon to reach the step goal, since you still have a number of hours left in the day, you assume you'll pick a few hundred steps up no problem. Between the end of your activity and midnight any number of things happens (you accidentally left your watch charging, you got very tired and took a nap, an emergency had you tending to another situation), just after midnight you realize you fell short of your step goal. At this point the damage has been done to your motivation.

0 trux over 1 year ago in reply to Hessica

There is still the possibility to adjust the computer date to the past day, and correcting the goal, but other than that you better watch out whether you are on the target or not efore the midnight, if meeting the goal is important to you. The conditions are the same for everyone, and I am afraid they are unlikely to change.