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Unable to re-schedule missed training sessions in garmin training plan in garmin coach

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Former Member over 4 years ago

Why is it that you can't manually re-schedule a training session on a garmin training plan? It is incredibly frustrating that you can't make up for a missed session (effectively swapping a rest day and active day). Please Garmin could you change this? It can't possibly be a difficult functionality to add.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Hello I had the same issue, does anyone know how to upload a missed workout? is it solved now from  Garmin staff?

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I had so many bugs trying to reschedule so I gave up and follow whatever it says. Just another frustration from garmin. And no, you can't add a completed activity to match the training. Training plan is very buggy in general. I saw numerous questions like this when trying to solve my issues. Garmin doesn't care, what  seems to be a normal functionality is not the priority for them.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to 8390248

    The trick seems to be to reschedule the work out, in the training calendar BEFORE the day is out, otherwise you lose the workout. It could certainly be easier!

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Les1967

    when the day is out the activity will be marked as missed, so rescheduling is only available beforehand and sometimes moving an activity for the next day i was getting several days of rest and other activities planned for the week to disappear

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    I haven't found a way to reschedule yet, so I try to pause if I know i'm going to miss the day.  Still not sure if you need to resume on the day you plan to do the next workout, or if you have to resume the day before you are going to resume...

    Also, you can manually do one of the training sessions by selecting it from that type workout on the watch (Fenix 5x).  For me I go into the activity I want to do ( run ) then hold the menu button, select Training -> My Workouts, and all the typical workouts from my training plan are in there.  Just pick one that you missed and hit 'do workout'

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    *** When I am logged into Garmin Connect (app or laptop/PC), there does not appear to be any way to move a past OR future Training Plan workout (no grab dots on the session bar).  There is also no way to move this on the Connect app. SUPER INCONVENIENT.  I understand that when you're on a "plan" the coach wants you to stick to the workouts as prescribed, but that is not always possible in the real world. ***

    This is the only workaround that I found that worked for me on the DAY AFTER a missed training session:

    - Pause your training plan on the Connect phone app or laptop/PC

    - Manually recreate yesterday's missed training session in the Garmin Connect app on your phone or laptop/PC then sync it to your device (not too hard, use the Repeats feature for intervals)

    - Complete the manual training session

    - Resume the training plan on the app or laptop/PC on the day after your manual training session. If that is a rest day on your plan, then you will have to manually create the 2nd "missed" session from the day before if one was scheduled.  (If you resume the training plan on the same day as the manual session and a different training session was planned for that same day, you won't be able to move that one either. Nobody will stop you from doing 2 session in one day but most of us won't do that.)

    I have re-created a few Training Plan sessions like this and named them the same workout name as in the training plan so that if I have to reuse it in the future for a missed session, it's easy to add the correct manual session to the calendar For instance, instead of saving a manual session as "Run" change the name to "Speed repeats - manual." These are created sessions are saved in Training & Planning / Workouts / My Workouts for future use. As training progresses and time/speed/etc. are added to the sessions, it's easy to edit the manually created sessions to keep up with the plan.

    I hope all of this makes sense.

    GARMIN - would it be difficult to add a "Date" data field to ANY session (training plan, manually created, etc.) that you could manually change in the Edit mode and it will move the session on your calendar?  I'm not a programmer, but that seems like it would be a very simple work-around for this problem that a lot of people seem to encounter.