Add Option for Recurring Workouts

Add Recurring Workouts to the Garmin Connect App

The idea is to allow users to select recurring options for workouts when the create or edit a workout. For example, my workouts involve doing the same workout A every Monday and workout B every Wednesday and doing some PT work MWF.
It is very common for physical therapists to recommend doing exercises at set schedules (i.e. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday).

The current method of dragging the preset workouts onto the calendar is quite cumbersome, particularly for PT types of workouts that are on a MWF type of schedule.
Adding this option to create recurring workouts would improve the UI for users like myself who want to track all aspects of their health, and recurring workouts is a basic feature of workout apps.

I see that this idea has been posted several times in the forums before with no real reply from Garmin. One user made an extension, but it doesn't work anymore.

I've sent in the idea to Garmin, but I'm posting this again here in hopes to bump this up and get this feature added.

0 8628499 4 months ago

Agree. It will be extremely useful. It allows to shceudle workout batches. And avoid forget to add next day workout

0 7735476 7 days ago

How this wasn't an option from day one is beyond me. Repeating events/workouts is the most basic calendaring function. Unfortunately, if they do add this feature you'll have to subscribe to Connect+ as all new features will go behind a pay wall.

0 0x3D6139 7 days ago in reply to 7735476

7735476 said:
all new features will go behind a pay wall

Is this your assumption, or is this what Garmin has stated?

0 7735476 7 days ago in reply to 0x3D6139

It's a fundamental principal of Capitalism.

They created Connect+ because their share holders want higher gains. The only way to achieve this is to put new features behind a subscription service. Look at any other company that has created a pay-wall system (MyFitnessPal is a good example). First they will put new features behind a pay-wall, and they won't get enough adoption (because consumers hate pay-walls), so eventually they will move critical/key features (like a workout calendar) to try and drive adoption. They'll lose some customers but the share holders don't care because they'll just incrementally increase the subscription price to suit their profit margins.

So to answer your question more directly. This is not an assumption (it will happen), but Garmin won't ever come out and say it because of the negative press.