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Can't create an Activity with a countdown timer instead of stopwatch timer. What am I missing?

12reps
over 4 years ago

Say I want to do a 30 min cardio session. I can't find a way to simply set a 30 min timer as part of an Activity so it counts down from 30min to 0.

Here's what I found I could do:

1) I could program an Interval but then it won't let me do just 1, I have to do a minimum of 2 timed intervals.

2) I can set a Training Target but that always includes distance as there's no time-only target. The best I came up with was if I used the "Distance and Time" target to set the distance to the lowest possible 0.05 miles.

3) I can use the basic timer itself but I want it to be part of an Activity so it can be tracked. This is what I'm doing now: I'm starting a 30 min timer and also a Cardio activity. When the timer goes off I stop the Cardio activity. Seems like a workaround.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Rather create a Workout instead of an Activity. You can set the duration of individual exercises there.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to trux

    Thanks, I did that. The workout is visible in the Connect app and on connect.garmin.com but after syncing many times it's not on my watch. When I select an activity (Cardio in this case) and select "My Workouts" it shows "Download Workouts from Garmin Connect" 

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to 12reps

    Use the big blue button on the top of the respective Workout page "Send To Device" for sending the workout to your Instinct. Verify then, over the USB cable, whether the file is in the folder //GARMIN/Workouts/

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to trux

    I should've specified that I did that from both the website and the app. The file is there under \\GARMIN\Workouts but I don't see it on my watch.

    As per the manual I'm doing this: GPS > select Cardio > Hold MENU > Select Training > My Workouts ... and it says "Download Workouts from Garmin Connect"

    The manual says "Only workouts that are compatible with the selected activity appear in the list" so maybe that's the problem? Any idea how they defined "compatible" here? 

  • +1 over 4 years ago in reply to 12reps
    12reps said:
    The file is there under \\GARMIN\Workouts but I don't see it on my watch.

    If it is in the folder, and you do not see it among Cardio workouts, then it most likely means that the workout is not of the type Cardio. Are you really sure the Workout you created was of the type "Cardio"?

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to trux

    That was it! I had created it as type Custom. I deleted it and created it as a Cardio type and it all worked. Thanks for your help, trux.