[REQUEST] Training plans on Vivoactive

Very disappointing Garmin...

Just purchased my new Vivoactive and I got very disappointed to find out we have no training plans and no workouts. I really dont understand why are you doing so? The hardware is perfectly capable for this. It is just to sell more the other more ugly and expensive watches. Dont you see that world goes into cloud and subscription model? Why dont you ask for some money to use the workouts and training plans on all available devices instead? Even worse. I tried to develop my own app to get this (I am a developer), but you ask for 5000$ fee to use the garmin connect api (to restrict these kind of ideas) and you trimmed out lots of sdk for IQ apps, so we have no chance to develop something for this...Next week I will return this watch, cos I had no idea you striped out such functionality from it and will never buy a Garmin watch ever again. I hope the competition has better understanding how the world will spin in the future than you do.

I came into this problem too. I wish I had known that before purchase and will discourage everyone from buying any garmin watch.
Closed API and product downsizing are evil practices.

Please add It!

Please add It!

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Just wanted to say that I would really also like this feature...considering, what I paid for the device, it should already be available...

this function is indispensable!!

Request (Please!) - Download Garmin Connect Interval Workouts on Vivoactive HR

Sooo upset I can't do this on my Vivoactive HR! Please fix this!

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Please add support for Training plans to Vivoactive HR

Gretna Fairview

I really don´t understand you guys...

There is a specification from gamin, which contains all the functionality. And "Training" is none of them. So there is nothing to be "fixed" or "added".
And it is nothing to be "disappointed" about, if you don´t compare the devices before purchasing them.
It´s on their homepage and comparable with any of their watches.

Garmin has a quite simple approach:
"Cheap" watches don´t contain all the functionality, as the more expensive "special" watches do.
Like Forerunner have many running related stuff. Fenix is a combination of running, hiking and also has bicycle stuff. That´s why it´s the most expensive one.
The Vivoactive is a kind of first-time user model.


Don´t understand me wrong: I´d love to have a Vivoactive with more functionality. From programming perspective, you are totally right! It would be capable of the most features from other devices. But like in the car industry: You can´t expect a fully equipped car for a few bucks ;)
I like the VA and think it is the most all-day "wearable" watch. The HR is to sporty and the fenix series to huge...

I really don´t understand you guys...

There is a specification from gamin, which contains all the functionality. And "Training" is none of them. So there is nothing to be "fixed" or "added".
And it is nothing to be "disappointed" about, if you don´t compare the devices before purchasing them.
It´s on their homepage and comparable with any of their watches.

Garmin has a quite simple approach:
"Cheap" watches don´t contain all the functionality, as the more expensive "special" watches do.
Like Forerunner have many running related stuff. Fenix is a combination of running, hiking and also has bicycle stuff. That´s why it´s the most expensive one.
The Vivoactive is a kind of first-time user model.


Don´t understand me wrong: I´d love to have a Vivoactive with more functionality. From programming perspective, you are totally right! It would be capable of the most features from other devices. But like in the car industry: You can´t expect a fully equipped car for a few bucks ;)
I like the VA and think it is the most all-day "wearable" watch. The HR is to sporty and the fenix series to huge...

In the gadget/technology industry, the common practice is to charge a device based on the hardware specifications-capabilities. For example, an expensive smartphone will most of the times differentiate it self from a cheaper smartphone by having a better camera, a better screen, a faster processor, etc. They wont restrict you from playing games from the cheap smartphone but you will play them with worse performance. A faster processor costs more money for the company so obviously you need to pay more if you want to buy a device with a better processor.

What Garmin is doing here, is basically selling devices with similar cost to manufacture (as they all have similar hardware specs) and then their selling them for different price ranges based on the software features that they allow to be used on each device. Not sure about you, but that doesn't really sound right to me.

This is what you get when there are no actual competitors for garmin in the fitness wearable industry... :)

Anyways, there are some nice apps in the store that can do intervals.
Im using this for weight training:
https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/049f0734-61cd-43f5-ad4e-248be3810edd

In the gadget/technology industry, the common practice is to charge a device based on the hardware specifications-capabilities.

I disagree. Some people act as if highly portable general purpose computing devices such as mobile tablets and smartphone handsets somehow define “the gadget/technology industry”, when there are far more gadgets that are basically appliances sold to deliver a predefined set of features and functions as marketed to end-users, without any room for repurposing or further exploitation of the hardware capabilities.

I don't have a problem with people choosing to only see smartphones and use it as their personal frame of reference for everything, as long as they can handle the reality of the consumer technology marketplace and swallow the disappointment as it gets served up to them from time to time.