7 day load widget/data field?

Since it seems that there is not a 7 day load widget from training status, I'm interested in making a 7 day load widget or a watch face complication for it.

The main problem I have is that it the 7 day load is the most important metric for me to see and right now it's buried in about 4 clicks deep, it's hard to get motivated about your data when you have to go hunt it down.

Anyone know if this is even possible in the SDK?

Much thanks!

-neil

0 mushroomfish over 3 years ago

Did you ever find a solution to this?

-having the same issue

0 _psx_ over 3 years ago

Unfortunately there is no this metric in SDK and I no data to calculate it.

0 DaveBrillhart over 1 year ago in reply to _psx_

This might be something we can use to calculate it?

0 flocsy🤠 over 1 year ago in reply to DaveBrillhart

no, for 2 reasons:

1. it's not a rolling 7 day window, but it is reset on the 1st day of the week

2. it's not the load, but the active-minutes

0 jim_m_58 over 1 year ago in reply to DaveBrillhart

ActivityMonitor is only on watches.

And remember,

total minutes = moderate minutes + (vigorous minutes *2)

0 flowstate over 1 year ago in reply to DaveBrillhart

Why respond in 2024 to a topic started in 2021 where the latest reply was from 2022? I can understand posting on old threads in some exceptional situations, but not as a general rule.

Acute load (the replacement for 7-day load *) is still unavailable in the SDK, but certain watches have this metric available as a data field on native watchfaces, such as FR255, FR955, and Instinct 2. I know the data field is on FR955 from personal experience, and the other two have been mentioned in the forums.

(* Acute load still represents the last 7 days of training, but it's now a weighted sum where older days have lower weight than newer days. That's right, this topic is so old that the metric in question doesn't really even exist in the exact same form on current watches.)

According to some forum posts from 2022, and DC Rainmaker's 2023 Fenix 7 Pro review, acute load as a watchface data field wasn't available for Fenix watches at the time. idk what the current situation is.

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2023/05/flashlight-multiband-everyone.html

As always, I’ll point out that I fail to understand the huge data inconsistencies between Garmin’s Forerunner & Fenix teams on watch face data fields. Why is it that some Garmin Forerunner watches allow data bits like Training Load/Recovery/Acute Load/etc, yet other Fenix watches don’t allow it.

0 flocsy🤠 over 1 year ago in reply to flowstate

Why replying to a question that was already answered 8 hours ago?

0 flowstate over 1 year ago in reply to flocsy🤠

flocsy🤠 said:
Why replying to a question that was already answered 8 hours ago?

I'm replying with additional context (not mentioned anywhere else in the thread) about:

- how the original metric requested in the OP isn't even the same anymore (therefore the topic is no longer 100% relevant, for reasons other than the fact that the original 2 posters probably don't even care about it anymore)

- the closest analog to the information OP wanted is actually available as a native watchface field on some watches (which, to read between the lines, is what they would've wanted in the first place, but again, probably doesn't matter because the original post is 4 years old)

Anyway, I'm sure this topic will be resurrected again in 2030 when somebody searches for "7-day load" and decides to try to figure out if we can use CIQ to calculate it.

Again, while I do see the value of having long-running threads in some cases (unanswered feature requests, CIQ support threads), I think there's a good reason that most modern online support communities will auto-lock posts after a few months.