Garmin Coach made redundant by 'Daily Suggested Workouts" for a calendar Event?

Ray Maker wrote:

"... the watch will offer Daily Suggested Workouts for both Running & Cycling. These can be general in nature (without a goal), or can be driven by a specific goal race on your calendar.

If you put a specific running or cycling event on your calendar, it’ll automatically build out a pretty comprehensive training schedule – including multiple phases (e.g., base, build, peak, taper, recovery), as well as even offer which days you want your long runs/rides. You can see an example of one below:

    

The system is smart enough that if you’ve had crappy sleep or too much load from something not on the schedule, it’ll pull back the recommendations (or give you a rest day). Same goes for travel, if you’ve added your travel via the Jetlag Advisor feature."

This pretty much looks like a Garmin Coach training plan (without the human faces doing little videos).  For Garmin Coach training plans I put a race date, the distance, # of running days per week, days for a long run, and the "Garmin Coach" gives me weekly run schedules.

How is the different from what in now in the Fenix 7 Pro?  Again, without the little videos of human coaches? An adaptive training plan targeting a specific distance race.

  • The difference is that Garmin Coach not adjusting trainings already planned for nearest week, what daily suggestions does.
    Gamin Coach plan also cannot be longer than 20 weeks if I'm not mistaken.
    For daily suggestions you can set couple events, set which is primary one and watch will adjust all suggestions to all of them.
    Daily suggestions are also structured to couple training phases.
    Check manual or daily suggestions description in your watch.
    Other thing is that you could have daily suggestion without scheduled event and then watch will propose you workouts best suits to tour current shape.

  • Thanks, it really is a feature I would use.

    It doesn't have a name.  It seems a few things come together.

    A running/cycling calendar Event.

    Some activities to get a baseline.

    Daily suggestion if running/cycling.

    A structured adaptive training plan for the event.

    i.e. a smarter Garmin Coach function.

  • Reviving this thread.  I've been told by Garmin via phone support that Garmin Coach is an "island," meaning it takes very little into account and can't see your workouts or races you do that are NOT on its plan.  It's dumb and blind it seems.  I will say the DSW attached to the race DO seem comprehensive, maybe too much...seems almost like a 7 day a week plan versus 4 in Garmin Coach.  Anyone have any other thoughts here???

  • If you want to use a Garmin Coach plan then use that. If you want to follow DSW prompts then use that. Different programmes from different coaches should not be mixed anyway never mind when trying to do it with a watch.

  • I think a better way to address this is, there is a new feature, and an older one. A venn diagram of the two would have a lot of overlap, but what are the differences?  Some user here who in good faith has gone through three or four events/races with each of these two would be in a good position to explain differences and pros and cons. That's the request posted on this public forum?

    It seems like you are rejecting the premise of the question, and disinterested in these details. Is that right?

  • Chris, are you addressing me or Phillip?