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5 months ago

Why is the detection of exercises in strength workout so bad at Garmin Fenix 8? When it does detect by itself it's always wrong. Why is it not possible, to choose the right exercise on the watch after doing it (like raps and kilo)? That would be very good and easy. Because now I can only change later in the Connect app, but don't know later, what i did all. Could this be changed?

  • 0 5 months ago

    The database would probably be too big to handle in a user-friendly way on the small interface. I could imagine a 'last used exercises' list for easier selection, though. But that would be a feature request... and we know how that usually goes.

    A workaround is using a preplanned workout – with the downside that your watch will always jump back to the exercise list during training (an open issue for years, also ignored by Garmin). But at least you wouldn't have to edit everything later. Skipping or doing exercises later is possible on the watch.

  • 0 5 months ago

    I think the same way like KrapfenKringel, if they put their list of exercise names on the watch UI it would be a mess. It’s not even good in the App.

    I personally am glad its the way it is, even wenn it detects some funny excercises like weighted push ups on the shoulder press.

    The feature request about locking the watch with the PIN code when taken off was done in a quarter release cycle (it was first asked for in Q4/2024 and is now in beta), I don’t understand how they priorize those.

    I don’t think they see the behaviour as a bug but as a feature, they implemented it this way and will stick to it. 

  • 0 5 months ago in reply to BeneGi

    I would always argue for the bug side, for example no other activity forces the user back to one page, what's the point of allowing other pages if I can't use them....