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Today's Suggested Workout - thoughts and suggestions

ColinSainsbury
over 4 years ago

I have been using the suggested workout feature for a few weeks now and I like the concept but the feel the following:

  • It would be helpful to have a sneak peek at tomorrow's suggestion to enable planning. I appreciate that this is based on sleep patterns but I think it could use historical patterns and make the suggestion with the caveat that you do not have a bad night
  • It would be helpful to have some influence over the training by setting a goal. I am not clear whether I am training for 5K/10K or a marathon. My current suggestions seem to be consistently running 30 - 50 minutes at a much slower pace than I normally run at. I spend much of the run receiving Pace High warnings even if I put the steepest local hills into the route.

I have seen that point 1 has been discussed in another thread but I have taken that information into my thinking.

I asked DCRainmaker about point 2 and he suggested that it was just trying to make tomorrow better than today. It may be that I don't do enough Base workouts (the watch tells me so) and it is trying to make up for that but I feel the need to do some intervals in the mix.  

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I just want to disable this crap. I have my own plan and don't want to be lectured by my watch whenever I go to start a workout. Unfortunately, it can't be disabled so I guess I'm going to have to get a new watch.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Mike S

    Start an activity, suggested workout appears, click top right button, disable prompt.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Lee

    I've tried that. I don't get the disable prompt.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I have to agree with DCR here. The suggestions are just looking at where you are and what you’ve been doing. Then based how you respond to the workouts given they’ll get longer and faster.

    Ive been using the suggestions the last few weeks while coming back from a cycling accident that had me out of action for a while. It does seem to rely a lot on base training which is logical for most casual exercisers.

    My problem with their system is that it relies partly on the sleep data and, for me at least, the new sleep analysis doesn’t work very well. So I’ll get base almost everyday and sometimes will get multiple rest days in a row no matter how good I objectively feel.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to R_Tellis

    What is it even training me for? I have my own plan and just want to disable this.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Mike S

    Sorry, I fat-fingered hitting the reply button on my iPad and the post got flagged as abusive.

    The function isn’t AI and is just trying to train the user for general fitness. As the poster above said, you should be able to disable the feature when it prompts you to do the suggested workout.

    I can’t walk through it on my watch right now because I got the rest day suggestion so I might not get this exactly right. But when the suggested workout comes up you should be able to hit the upper right button on your watch and then scroll down to disable and select that.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to R_Tellis

    Thanks. I have some very specific workouts I'm doing and they're not on my Garmin calendar, because I don't need them to be. I can remember this week's interval session without typing it into Garmin and I don't need the prompts on my device to tell me when to speed up or slow down.

    If I ever get a suggestion other than "Rest" then I'll try the disable procedure. In the meantime, looking at other, non Garmin, watches if this is going to continue being a hassle.

    I just want the watch to track, not instruct.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Mike S

    If you press the Start button (top right) when the prompt is showing you will get a menu and scrolling to the bottom you will find the Disable Prompt option. Note this disables prompts for subsequent days and does not take effect immediately i.e. you are disabling tomorrow's prompt.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to ColinSainsbury

    It doesn't give me that option. Apparently this is because it wants me to rest. Since I don't get a real suggestion, I don't get the disable option. Despite feeling fine and being perfectly healthy, my watch doesn't want me to workout. Whatever metrics they're using obviously aren't that good.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    While I am doing a suggested workout, I noticed that the pace indicator is not very accurate at all. It seems to respond to pace changes very slowly. This is annoying, as I am not always able to reliably go at a given pace immediately (I have to speed up or accelerate, according to what the watch says).

    When I am not in a suggested workout, the pace indication is very stable (if I run at constant speed of course). I am using a Garmin footpod for that, not the GPS signal.

    So is the suggested workout not using the footpod ? Or does it have a huge averaging which slows down reactivity ?