Logging running drills

I am working on my running speed and economy, and so I have some feedback and a question.

First of all, what activity mode is best to log running drills with? Currently I made a session as a HIIT workout.

Second, I am from Norway and when I try to find the specific excercise its hard to find a good translation except for jumpsquats. So I am also doing skips for height and bounding. Are they even there in English? How come I cant search for the excercises in English aswell? Its honestly a bit annoying. Anyways, I would appreciate it if anyone could cive me some feedback on how to log and structure these kinds of workouts, as I have very little experience with explosive training.

flocsy🤠 4 months ago

Wrong forum. Find the forum for your watch : forums.garmin.com/.../

FlowState 4 months ago

KiqueLaGamba said:
First of all, what activity mode is best to log running drills with? Currently I made a session as a HIIT workout.

It's up to you but personally I would use the normal Run profile (or a copy of it), and press Lap every time I transition from a work interval to rest interval or vice versa.

Same thing I do for "regular" interval training (for running). In either case I would disable auto lap (which wouldn't be an issue for you unless you include your warmup / cooldown in the activity)

flocsy🤠 4 months ago in reply to FlowState

There are activity types that have the pattern: set, rest, set, rest, ... and there are those that don't have rest (i.e run). If your drills involve rests then it might make more sense to use the HIIT, because then by pressing the lap button you switch between activity mode and rest mode. On the other hand there might be some things that are missing (i.e I'm not sure if GPS -> distance is enabled in HIIT or if it is possible to manually enable it) so it might still make sense to log it as a running activity. I myself usually use running for this, as it really only involves running.

FlowState 4 months ago in reply to flocsy🤠

HIIT has GPS off by default, although that can be changed in settings. I didn't try it outside with GPS enabled, but it tried it indoors for a few seconds and when you look at the activity in Connect, no distance is displayed.

I guess it really depends what kind of running drills you're talking about it. If it's "form" drills like butt kicks, high knees, B skips, etc, where distance/pace doesn't make sense then sure, HIIT makes sense. For something like strides or sprints, I would use Run, because I want to track my pace. (I realize that GPS pace is pretty useless for very short intervals, same as some Garmin lap stats are meaningless for very short laps.)

Personally I don't even track drills, except for strides.

Also, when you press the LAP button during a running activity, Garmin will auto-detect intervals now. (If your manual laps happen to alternate between fast and slow running at any point during the activity, Garmin will automatically categorize them as intervals. This applies to both the activity on the watch and in Connect.)

This feature has actually annoyed a few people, who *don't* want this to happen.

e.g. Say I run an 8k steady state run, but near the end of the run I do strides (e.g. 8 x 15s), with a few seconds rest between each stride, and I press LAP between each work/rest interval.

Garmin will automatically categorize my run laps as follows

8k [warmup] (8 intervals of 1k each, assuming I have 1k auto-laps enabled)

8 x

15s [run]
15s [rest]

.5k [cooldown] (assuming I have to run an additional .5k to get home before I finish my activity)

So when I look at my activity on my watch, I can no longer see the original 1k auto laps, I can only see the "warmup", stride intervals, and "cooldown", even though the strides were a very minor part of my activity.

On the flipside, this feature is fairly welcome when I do a real interval workout which is the main focus of an activity.