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Garmin Coach changing workouts throughout the day

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4 months ago

Hi all,

I am testing this new personalized Garmin Coach workout plan and noticed, that the workout is changing even throughout the day.

Yesterday and today morning it showed that I should take the day off today, but now at the evening it suddenly shows that I should do a base workout.

I find this weird. Is this a bug or a feature ?

Regards

Volker Jordan

  • 0 4 months ago

    I noticed the same but I think it is by design. Yesterday the watch told me mid afternoon that my recovery had been faster than expected (indeed it had been a sedative office day). In this case it still suggested no workout that day, but I can imagine that these suggestions will change if certain criteria are met. 
    Training readiness is updated throughout the day and the assumption that is done in the morning may not be valid anymore in the evening, depending on your activities during the day. 
    So, my guess would be that you had had a restful, easy day and recovered more than Garmin guessed you would.

    I hope that someone more knowledgeable will be able to actually answer your question, but maybe this does help…

  • 0 4 months ago

    The new Garmin Coach plans are adaptive- so it is possible to experience this. I suggest reading through Garmin Run Coach for a thorough explanation on the training plans. I hope this helps!

  • 0 3 months ago in reply to Garmin-Sierra

    Is there a way to make them less adaptive? I went to sleep thinking today was an interval day and drove somewhere to specifically do that now. Now that I am here with all the things required, all it is, is a base run day without any way of recalling the interval workout I was prepared to do mentally and physically. 

  • 0 3 months ago in reply to markinWA

    This would be really helpful. At the start of each training week, the plan seems to be well set out   I have woken up with training readiness high, sleep score high, but yet my long run that was scheduled yesterday is now a base run and half the time…

    Makes me nervous in trusting Garmin Training for my first marathon - will i be prepared if the training is going to continue changing??

    Is there a way where I can follow the plan and if my body isn’t up to it, rest or skip the suggested training?

  • 0 17 days ago in reply to markinWA

    Moreover. After AI changed the plan for Friday 3 times, finally a completed an aerob training. 2.5 horus with base cycling and 6x 1.5 minutes high watts.

    Garmin coach took it for a rest day.

    No comment for unprofessionality of this product as well.

    Also when I do exactly the same what is the plan, other part of Garmin connect complains about different kind of shortage and gives advices against the plan.

  • 0 8 days ago

    It is absolute madness! I went to bed expecting a 5 hour long ride the next day, woke up and it was reduced to 4h 59mins, then once ready and prepared it had changed to a 3h 25min base ride. I rode 5 hours anyway and once I got back the workout had been deleted and replaced with a rest day. then later on in the evening it prompted me to go out for a 5 hour long ride again. A weekly adaptive solution would be perfect, I'm not a professional athlete so I need to plan my workouts around all my other commitments. It could recommend an alternative based on your health stats but should leave that decision to the user.

  • 0 8 days ago in reply to Freeandrewdickson

    If you have Garmin watch or something track your daily activity and sync to Garmin connect then maybe possible.

    But I admit this is madness.

    15 warm up, 15 minutes cool down and between them 6x5 minutes: 20 seconds 600 watt + 5 minutes 160 watt.

    So as per Garmin: 15+(6*5.3)+15=52 minutes :-)