Daily suggested workout: any way to set the week workout/rest days?

Hey Peppe,

That's is a good question. I also would like to know.... Right now my daily suggestion is pretty random.
Sometimes it gives me 2 days rest in a week (randomly) and sometimes it asks me to run the entire week.
If someone has an answer for organizing the daily suggestion runs, it would be great.

Thanks for the feedback. I indeed feel the Daily Suggestions might actually make sense: they do it by constantly measuring my current overall status and suggest things that I myself would be tempted to do, except that the sum of it all during a week would probably be too much for my case. So trying to configure the model with the input that I can run only 3 times a week might prove fitting.

Peppe said:

I can't find any way to configure it to base the suggestions on a 3-days-a-week schedule. Anyone found anything about ?

If you use the Garmin Coach feature, you can select the number of workouts per week.  And you'll see the workouts in advance.  

Thanks Dan.Boilermaker. I've tried once the only Garmin Coach that envisioned 3 runs per week for a 10km plan (Jeff Galloway) which included many run on hills which is something complicated here where I live.

Thanks. My worry in this case is that by skipping a day, the recommendation for the day after might be a bit harder to compensate the loss of training in a king of goal to reach a certain volume/quality of training in a week or other larger time frame. Anyway, today I made my first Daily Suggested workout, a Tempo run with some not-so-fast intervals and in the end ... it proved too hard for my current training status I think. I'll give it a go again in a couple of weeks while I do some more Base running in between.

Peppe said:

My worry in this case is that by skipping a day, the recommendation for the day after might be a bit harder to compensate the loss of training in a king of goal to reach a certain volume/quality of training in a week or other larger time frame

You are correct that when you skip a workout, you might end up having a different workout the following day, since the watch is trying to keep your training balanced. For example, you were borderline short on high aerobic, but your training load was high, medium recovery, so the watch proposed a base training. You skip the base training, and the watch detects you are now borderline on both high aerobic and low aerobic, but that you are completely recovered, and your training load is lowish. It might give you now a VO2Max, Threshold or Tempo run because you are now ready for a tougher workout and your balance needs one.

It is possible also that the target could change slightly for the same type of workout. In the example above, the watch could have proposed you a very slightly faster base training after you skipped the first base training.

All in all, the suggestions are pretty smart, and you won't be cutting your training short if you skip a couple of workouts.

First, don't hesitate to skip, cross-train or pick an easier training proposed the following days if you feel tired, don't have the time, you have muscle or tendon aches, or if the watch's recovery bar is in the orange or red zone. You can also cut a training short if you feel you did what you could.

Second, if the workouts are way too hard (in particular threshold, VO2 Max, Anaerobic or Sprint), put your best effort in. The watch will use your performance to adjust its VO2Max model. It doesn't mean your VO2Max will necessarily go down, but the associated performance data (pace, power) could be revised down.

Peppe said:

it proved too hard for my current training status I think

This can happen if you are new to training, picked up running after a long break, and your acute load is low. Your first workouts might get you over the green zone in acute load, your recovery times will be high, but the workouts might not feel that hard. Keep following the recommendations, or skip the workout if your recovery is orange or red. Your acute load green zone will progressively increase, and your training focus bars will "move to the right".

The watch is essentially doing what a personal coach would do for you, if you paid big bucks (possibly hundreds) for having one customize and monitor your training on a personal, individualized fashion.