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Daily suggested workout - No recovery??

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over 4 years ago

Hi, I started following the daily suggested workout for my run activities, but I noted that the watch never suggest to do recovery. On Monday I had an interval training suggestion, on Tuesday I had the same interval training suggestion, on Wednesday a different interval training suggestion and on Thursday I had a base run suggestion (50 min at 6:06min/km).

Is this normal? No recovery between activities suggestions?

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to bug-i

    A base run will be less than a hard workout, so it should still fit within the recovery period. DC Rainmaker has commented upon this (read comment #150), and his links to this section:

    https://discover.garmin.com/en-US/performance-data/running/#recovery-time >>

    "The recovery time feature available on many Garmin GPS watches provides scientifically personalized insight into how long it will be before you are fully recovered. When your timer hits zero, it means you are ready to gain the maximum benefit from your next hard fitness-improving (i.e., training effect: 3.0+) (my bolding/olni65) type workout."

    Basically, recovery period does not mean that you can't train - just that you shouldn't do intense training.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to olni65

    Agree with olni65, good explanation and references.  

    It isn't perfect and sometimes if you have a lot of easy/recovery/base workouts in a row or multiple in a day sometimes... load can accumulate increasing recovery time... but all of it was 'low aerobic', as long as overall load is in the optimal it might still recommend intervals of some sort.

    As far as repeated interval recommendations... if the Total Load of the workout was low, for instance easy warmup... 1min intervals with long recovery (walk or jog).  This will create a very low load as your HR will not really climb that high in the 1min hard, and likely quickly drop during recovery.  Especially if it isn't warm outside.  If not doing a walk in recovery, some will do easy run, which will raise the load (next interval will start at a higher starting HR).   This will greatly effect how the watch treats the load, recovery time, subsequent suggested workouts.  Also greatly effecting the suggestion and Load... is if you were using an optical wrist HR vs a strap... if you have bad data, the watch might assume you had super low load and didn't really get much out of workout.  So bad data... bad suggestions.