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Garmin Training Plan a joke? Pro Athlete?

Always customized my training alone or according to coach.Just for qurreacity I tried Garmin training plan for 2weeks. Not ever once did I get Sprint or Anaerob training. All sessions for two weeks was done 100% according to plan (a little bit faster as well).
When in good shape you wil not get high HR at 15sek sprint or 1min Anaerob, even tough speed will say so.. Pretty sad that Garmin uses only HR to detect this, should have used Tempo/Speed. Garmin gives me “base” on this workouts (Max HR, threshold etc 100% tested in lab several times)

Any Pro Athletes here?

do you guys use standard Garmin Heart Rate zones or customized according to LAB etc?

maybe better to leave it as std Garmin to make algorithms etc work according to Garmin stats?

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Adam-1972 over 2 years ago in reply to [Redacted] +1

Fair point.
I’m 194cm tall and 96kg weight.
Adam-1972 over 2 years ago in reply to rbmx +1

OK, I think we should do step back and do some analysis to have clear view.
1. How are your HR zones set on the watch? How they wer set?
2. What was average HR and maximum HR for this activity, in which…
Etupes25 over 2 years ago in reply to rbmx +1

rbmx said:
Base Workout because HR will only Reach Zone 3 something is wrong with the calculation

That is because your running VO2 max model doesn't have the right data. This model uses HR/Pace value pairs…

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0 rbmx over 2 years ago in reply to Etupes25

Wow, thanks again dude, very interesting.. The EPOC article was also very nice to read and gave me a lot;)... I have been digging into my training lately and found out that the whole rot to everything regarding TE on Garmin Load etc is Running inside (Treadmill).. In cycling season my Training status/Load is usually 1400-1700 and i got a lot of 4-4.8 TE. When XC skiing season has started and running all my Hard sessions inside i can't even get to 900-1100 LOAD and never ever get higher than 3.5-3.8 TE even when pushing "til i die".... SO it is what it is and my Cardio shape has never been this good so something am i doing right this season (Testet 73.5ml VO2max on Monday in Lab, best ever and now over 40years old).. Just have to train as usual, but lets hope Garmin would use Foot Pod for speed Calculations and the Load + TE for the Future;););).... Thanks again for all the great answers, really appreciate it;)