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Suggested workout and sleep discrepancy

Craggles
over 4 years ago

Yesterday my watch indicated that today would be a hard workout. However, this morning the suggested workout was 'recovery', based on poor sleep. My sleep was rated as 93 and 'excellent' so is this just a bug or can I try and get it to suggest another workout with the assumption that it prompted me before it had updated its own sleep data? I'm just curious to see what the workout it actually should be suggesting is and there doesn't seem to be a way to find out :-(

Using fenix 6.

  • Former Member
    +1 Former Member over 4 years ago

    There is no way to suggest another workout.

    This could be an anomaly (its happened to me once) or perhaps the coding malfunctioned who knows.

    If you are keen to workout, have a look at your 'loading', assess where there is a shortfall (ie "High Aerobic" may be looking low) and perform a workout accordingly.

    From what I have seen the suggested workouts are generally great but there is the odd screw up - nothings perfect.

    Have a good run! 

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to Craggles

    No worries

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 4 years ago

    I have the exact same issue today. Also the recovery was longer than expected due to poor sleep while the Sleep widget reported good (long and continuous) sleep. This must be a bug most likely from the latest software update (was done yesterday on my watch). Still annoying... Disappointed

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Take a look at your stress / body battery and where it's trending relative to where you've been recently. My feeling is that sleep widget gives you rating based mostly on duration and duration of recovery phases like deep and REM. Not sure how much heart rate and HRV play into sleep rating, whereas recovery and daily suggestions are definitely looking at your HR/HRV and training load and focus.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    yeah- My running has been solid 50-60mpw.  I've gotten in a medium long run and a track workout this week.  My training load is in the middle of it's range.  yesterday, the suggested workout was "Rest"- which seemed like a good suggestion as my legs were tired...so I did an easy 5mi. 

    Got a solid 8hrs of sleep last night.

    Body battery is up to 100

    My recovery time is down to '0' hours.

    today's suggested workout   "rest".  WTF?  

    I don't get it.  What's the logic of the whole suggested workout thing.  I like the idea of the feature, but I don't understand what it's trying to do. It needs to be adaptable and in concert with a goal- to be useful.  

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to morey000

    How did your load look (theres a sentence I never thought I would say)?

    I've had all the above criteria as yourself but my 7 day load was above range.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to morey000
    morey000 said:
    yesterday, the suggested workout was "Rest"- which seemed like a good suggestion as my legs were tired...so I did an easy 5mi. 

    I'm pretty sure rest means rest, not an easy 5 miles. Otherwise, you would have gotten the latter. Anecdotally, there's no shortage of low aerobic base running in daily suggestions. I'm interested what would have happened had you picked cross-training like bike, swimming, or strength instead of running. Would the watch still ask for rest, or suggest something different?

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to morey000

    Also rest suggestions are either rest or something like 3 miles in 1st zone. If you did miles at 2nd zone, then that got registered as aerobic workout and not as recovery or rest

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

    How did your load look (theres a sentence I never thought I would say)?

    I've had all the above criteria as yourself but my 7 day load was above range.

    my load was right in the middle of the range.