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Daily suggested workout – Experience after 2 months of training

Ralf_23
over 4 years ago

Since exactly 2 months I follow the daily suggested workouts.

I started 2 month ago with VO2max 48 and now I’m at 54. The last 5 training sessions I improved VO2max and performance condition is always positive. So VO2max 55 should reached very fast. I'm very happy with this result.

I think the daily suggested workout is good for people, which have no personal coach. It propose me training sessions to improve my fitness (VO2max).

More Background:

I’m 51 and train to stay fit and healthy. I do not train for any race. I always run with HRM-Run chest strap to feed the algorithm with correct heart rate. In the last 2 years I have done two 16 week Garmin Coach half marathon training plans with a 2 hour target to finish my first half marathon in my life. During this 2 years I was rated 2 sessions with VO2max 53. That was my maximum since I have the Garmin watch.

The runs of this 2 half marathon training programs, were much longer and slower than what are my daily suggested workout in the last 2 months (maximum 55min). The daily suggested workout added much faster training sessions in my program, as what I have done before (very fast sprint and threshold sessions).

In the second month of training my training load focus is very balanced. That was never the case during the Garmin Coach half marathon training plans which had in the 16 weeks a strong focus on low aerobic training's.

Are there others which were following the daily suggested workout for more than a month?

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Thank you for sharing your experience. 

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    txs for sharing it. I also use the daily suggested workouts. But now i have a injury so i have to start all over again soon.

    I will again follow the daily advices. It helps i think

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Wow! Thanks for sharing. That’s a large jump in such a short time. What do you think of the suggested race times? Would you say they’re accurate? 

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Thanks for sharing.

    I just gotten the 5.5 update. I wanted to try this week but I am down with a flu. Will follow after recovering.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to caferey

    I can not comment the the times of the “Race Predictor” screen of the watch, because I’m not doing races. But I can comment on the proposed speeds and the prognosis of Aerob/Anaerob Training Effort of the proposed training sessions. I think the Garmin Algorithms know very well my correlation of speed and heart rate. If I follow correctly the suggested speed my final Aerob Training Effort is very close what was predicted in front of my training (0,1 difference). With Anaerob TE it is not so precise.

    When I saw the first time what fast speed I should go for the threshold sessions I could not believe that I can finish the session. But after the 2 months I see that Gamin Algorithms know it better.

    Today I feel much better with fast speeds. I’m even surprised that I can recover very fast from hard sessions (low resting heart rate and 100% Body Battery the next day). That correlate also the recovery time, which was only 1 or 2 days above 24 hours.

    So I really go a new experience with faster running speeds.

    When I compare again against the Garmin Coach half marathon training plans I see the following: Perhaps the 2 hour target I choose for the Plan was much too low for me. But the 16 weeks long I got no feedback about it. With the daily suggested workouts I really have the feeling that my training data have some influence for the next training sessions.

    PS: From some tests with the wrist bast OHR in the past, I’m convinced that it is very important to wear a chest strap, because otherwise you feed the algorithms with wrong data.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I have not been religiously following the suggested workouts.  Basically due to work responsibilities I have to take the first and third Wednesday of each month as a rest day.  Add to that occasional full days due to family obligations.  (If I spend 15 hours driving to a family gathering, I'm not going to run that day.  Etc.)  Finally, I want to do either a race or a long slow run on the weekend.  However, I am following the suggested workouts whenever I can.

    The result, so far, has been very positive.  My speed is increasing and my distance is increasing.  So I'm quite happy with the results.

    And every morning before I get out of bed I check to see what that's days workout will be.  Everyday it's a present.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Ralf_23

    Seems like a 55 Vo2Max number should correlate to a sub 1:30 half marathon.  Do you feel like that is reasonable for you?

    Thanks for sharing your experience.  I'm pretty curious about the daily workout suggestions too but because Garmin knows nothing about my race plans (they don't ask), I'm skeptical.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Hi Ralf.  Thanks for sharing, very interesting stuff.  What I am wondering is how the suggested workouts relate to training for long distances like HM or Marathon. I do understand that they improve your fitness level (VO2Max) but that doesn't mean that you are trained toward longer distances. What is your experience with that? Are longer distances subscribed as part of the suggested workouts? Does it look at your history to see how long they should be? Are they becoming increasingly longer? Thanks again for sharing and your comments

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to badbri

    Hello badbri,

    you are completely right! When I choose an Garmin Coach half marathon training plan I did not know my correct race time for 3-4 months later. Especially when I never have done a half marathon before.

    But Garmin Coach create a 12-16 week plan based on my entered race time when choosing the plan.

    I think it is a weakness that this plan does not adapt to my individual performance. So I think I have not done the correct training which is adapted to me all the 12-16 week long.

    Perhaps the Garmin Coach or I should always look every 2 weeks on the “Race Predictor” screen and adapt the Garmin Coach training plan accordingly.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Ralf_23
    Ralf_23 said:

    Hello badbri,

    you are completely right! When I choose an Garmin Coach half marathon training plan I did not know my correct race time for 3-4 months later. Especially when I never have done a half marathon before

    Exactly.  Even if you don't have a specific race, most of us have a "race focus" meaning we prefer to run marathons or ultras.  That type of training would vary quite a bit from someone that is trying to PR a 5K.