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Daily Suggested Workout: Skipping/missing a training.

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over 4 years ago

Hi, I think the daily suggested workout feature is brilliant in finding my zones to train in. However, I missed my tempo run yesterday and now instead of catching up today as I planned, I am told to do a base training. Surely if i didn't train yesterday my recommendation should stay the same? Obviously I will just do my tempo run but I don't understand why this happens. Are there any solutions? 

  • +1 over 4 years ago

    Personally I don't work with the suggested workout feature, so cannot account for that. I do train with a training plan from a trainer, who's pretty clear about the topic of missing/skipping a training. It's okay to miss/skip a training, but that effects the plan. The training cannot simply be done another day. That workout is simply lost and you continue with the workout schedule for the next day. In really advanced plans, the plan is recalibrated and work-outs will be presented to accommodate for the lost workout, but I doubt whether Garmins suggested workout feature is that advanced.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    The whole point of Daily Suggested Workout is an ADAPTIVE training plan. And it adapts to the fact that you skipped a workout yesterday.

    If working your way through a prescribed training plan rather than an adaptive one is something that appeals, there are other options out there that may allow you to more readily re-schedule training sessions.

    Garmin Coach offers an approach that is somewhat adaptive to how you have performed in previous workouts.

    And other more rigid plans can be downloaded as well.

    Finally, as an off-the-wall suggestion (I haven't tried this myself, so I don't know if it works), if you know you are going to miss a Suggested Workout training session, you could start it, then stop it after 5 seconds and select the "resume later" option, then resume it tomorrow.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Just my 2 cents.

    The suggested workout for the day is based on training load and status for the past X days.

    That load (based on rolling x days) yesterday and today can differ. Thus, the suggested workout may change.