Guided Workouts - BETA

Please use this discussion to give me feedback on the guided workouts data field.

https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/28bb8ea3-988d-4a13-a889-887aa002bf26

How to use Guided Workouts:

1. Use the Connect App / Garmin Express to configure the Data Field Settings.

2. When you Enable Guided Workouts, the display will change to allow for the guided workout to be displayed.

3. The watch will vibrate and use colors to indicate if you are keeping to the guided workout.

* Blue Indicates that you are going too slow, or your heart rate is too low

* Green indicates that you are in the desired zone

* Yellow indicates that you are going too fast, or your heart rate is too high

How to Create a Guided Workout:

For now, you will have to create guided workouts manually; I might build a companion app in the future. It is however relatively simple to do.

Here is an example of a guided workout configuration.

1,T,600,HR,1|R,2|2,T,300,HR,5|3,D,1000,P,1|E|4,L,0,HR,1|

Ok, So what does that mean.

Each step in the workout is separated by a | character, so in the example above the steps are.

1,T,600,HR,1 - Step (1), Run for a Time (T), (600) Seconds, Guided by Heart Rate (HR), Zone (1)

R,2 - Start a Repeat (R), Repeat Twice (2)

2,T,300,HR,5 - Step (2), Run for a Time (T), (300) Seconds, Guided by Heart Rate (HR), Zone (5)

3,D,1000,P,1 - Step (3), Run for a Distance (D), (1000) Meters, Guided by Pace (P), Zone (1)

E - End Of Repeat

4,L,0,HR,1 - Step (4), Continue until Lap Button Pressed (L), (0) Not Used for Lap Button, Guided by Heart Rate (HR), Zone (1)

OK so a bit more detail.

Each step has 5 parameters seperated by a comma (,) ex. 4,L,0,HR,1

1. Step number, this should be sequential.

2. Step Type can be Time (T), Distance (D) or Lap (L)

3. Step Configuration, Either Seconds for T, or Meters for D, use 0 for L

4. Step Zone Type, Heart Rate (HR), Pace (P)

5. Zone, Can be 1 - 5

Repeats can also be created to repeat a certain step or series of steps more than once. a repeat is started with a repeat step ex. R,2

1. Repeat (R) this indicates that the steps that follow must be repeated.

2. Number of repeats (2). this can be any number.

Repeats must be ended with a End (E) step, as per the above example.

Paul.Stevens over 8 years ago

Here are some example workouts. (based on a LTHR of 168)

1,T,600,HR,1|R,6|2,T,60,HR,1|3,T,60,HR,2|4,T,60,HR,5|5,T,60,HR,1|1,T,60,HR,7|E|

Workout Details:

Warm up
Warm Up: 10 min @ 126 bpm (Zone 1: Recovery, 111-142 bpm)

Repeat 6 Times

Ramp up in 6 steps
Work: 1 min @ 134 bpm (Zone 1: Recovery, 111-142 bpm)
Work: 1 min @ 144 bpm (Zone 2: Aerobic, 143-153 bpm)
Work: 1 min @ 168 bpm (Zone 5A: SuperThreshold, 168-171 bpm)
Work: 1 min @ 134 bpm (Zone 1: Recovery, 111-142 bpm)
Work: 1 min @ 144 bpm (Zone 2: Aerobic, 143-153 bpm)
Work: 1 min @ 185 bpm (Zone 5C: Anaerobic Capacity, 179-186 bpm)

1,D,3000,HR,2|R,6|2,D,200,HR,3|3,D,200,HR,1|E|4,D,4000,HR,2|R,2|5,D,1500,HR,5|6,D,1000,HR,2|E|7,D,1000,HR,7|8,L,0,HR,2|

Warm up
Warm Up: 3000 m @ 143 bpm (Zone 2: Aerobic, 143-153 bpm)

Repeat 6 times
Hard
Work: 165 m @ 160 bpm (Zone 3: Tempo, 154-160 bpm)
Easy
Recovery: 165 m @ 126 bpm (Zone 1: Recovery, 111-142 bpm)

Active
Work: 4000 m @ 143 bpm (Zone 2: Aerobic, 143-153 bpm)

Repeat 2 times
Hard
Work: 1500 m @ 168 bpm (Zone 5A: SuperThreshold, 168-171 bpm)
Easy
Recovery: 1000 m @ 151 bpm (Zone 2: Aerobic, 143-153 bpm)

Active
Work: 1.00 km @ 168 bpm (Zone 5A: SuperThreshold, 168-171 bpm)

Active
Work: Until Lap Button @ 151 bpm (Zone 2: Aerobic, 143-153 bpm)

HermoT over 8 years ago

I believe the correct forum for this post is the sub-forum Connect IQ Showcase

Paul.Stevens over 8 years ago

I believe the correct forum for this post is the sub-forum Connect IQ Showcase

Thanks Hermo, It's been moved.

Paul.Stevens over 8 years ago

Please share your workout configurations here.

larkim over 7 years ago

Workout suggestion

Not sure if I've got this entirely right, but I've been looking for an app or data field to do this for ages!

I've set up a "Mone Fartlek" workout based on the Moneghetti 20 minute running workout - 2x 90s fast with 90s steady recovery, 4x 60s fast with 60s steady recover, 4x 30s fast with 30s steady recovery and 4x 15s fast with 15s steady recovery, with 5 minutes of easy running either end.

I coded this as

1,T,300,P,1|R,2|2,T,90,P,5|3,T,90,P,1|E|R,4|4,T,60,P,5|5,T,60,P,1|E|R,4|6,T,30,P,5|7,T,30,P,1|E|R,4|8,T,15,P,5|9,T,15,P,1|E|10,T,300,P,1

I wasn't entirely sure what the pace zones were so I've just left them as "5" or "1" in each. Actually not sure I'd actively want the pace to be warning me, I'd like an option just to have the time elapse and a buzz on my wrist when I'm swapping from one effort level to the other.

larkim over 7 years ago

Another question - the pace zones that it uses - where does it get those from? I can see the heart rate zones, but not the pace zones?

abacaxi over 7 years ago

Another question - the pace zones that it uses - where does it get those from? I can see the heart rate zones, but not the pace zones?

+1

i do vvo2max intervals, but i'm not sure how to set the pace. my vo2max pace is around 3.45/km so i'd like to create a workout that lets me run 30s at 3.40-4.50 then 30s at 7.30, indefinitely until i can't keep the pace.

1,L,0,HR,1|R,47|2,T,30,P,?|3,T,30,P,1|E|

Y.Chao over 7 years ago

This is a live saver for my vivoactive HR!
Just have some questions here:
* how to configure the paces? I found that if I put threshold >= 300, zone 1 is 6:27+, but if threshold < 300, zone 1 is 4:xx!?
* possible to have cadence thresholds as zone? ex. 1,T,300,C,0 -> having cadence 170-190 for 5 min.; 1,T,300,C,1 -> having cadense 190-210 for 5 min. etc.
* able to set laps such that each workout items could be easily see from the records?

Thanks you very much!

Former Member over 6 years ago

adds tons of functionality for vivoactive HR!.

would it be too much to ask for an in app menu to edit the workout ?

(I usually train without my phone and sometimes training might change)