Can I use daily suggested workouts without a coach plan?

6755957 10 days ago

I've been using a Garmin Coach plan but heard some people prefer using Daily Suggested Workouts instead. I quit my coach plan but I can't get the suggested daily workout to appear and I don't have any running workouts available unless I start a plan or manually create one in Garmin Connect. Has this feature been rolled into Garmin Coach recently? I can't find a trace of it anywhere.

0 Mike 9 days ago

I think you need to add a race to the calendar in Connect, since the DSW are generated from that.

If you don't currently have a goal race, you can just create one for yourself easily, just add a date and the distance you'd like to train for (since 5k training is very different from a marathon block).

0 Bitti 9 days ago in reply to Mike

Daily suggested workouts can be used without a race. In fact, if you set up a race, it's not officially called Daily suggested workouts any more, then it's Garmin Run Coach...

support.garmin.com/.../

0 3809324 9 days ago in reply to Bitti

How did you find using the Garmin Run Coach and what made you switch? I agree that the Garmin Run Coach appears to be the same as Daily Suggested Workouts, the similarities I highlighted on this thread.

https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/running-multisport/f/forerunner-265-series/411597/daily-suggested-workouts-vs-coach

However, with DSW you can only view the plan on your watch and not the Garmin Connect app or the webpage.

0 chocorello 9 hours ago

I keep activated the daily suggestions although i never use them, just out of curiosity. I understand that if you are clueless about training structure it will give you some ideas based on your metrics. But i wouldn't expect any progress.
Much better to have a plan and stick to it.

Any plan.