More and more Garmin devices (Edge 1030 Plus, Forerunner 745, Forerunner 945, Fenix 6) are receiving updates for the new recommended daily workouts. Do you already have experience with it, especially in combination of TR?
Added support for Daily Suggested Workouts, which are recommended based on previous activities. You can disable this from activity settings. (Run/Bike > Menu > Training > Workouts > Today’s Suggestion.)
Added support for Improved Recovery Time, which takes your stress, sleep, relaxation, and physical activity into consideration.
If one is already following a training plan, I don’t see much value in those features. I’ll probably disable them once I receive the update in my Fenix 6 pro.
Important to note this functionality is part of the BETA program they do on their watches, etc. I usually install them after reading the comments but do it at your own risk.
sure, but on Edge 1030 Plus and Forerunner 745 it is already a public release
for me, it could be very interesting, because i don’t train for any event, but i do Duathlon like Training and i haven’t a perfect Plan here on TR. So i can look on the Bike Workout Suggestion and search if i can find a nearly similar workout on TR and for running i will do as Garmin tells me, or so
The Resting Day suggestion could be interesting for me too, i am a 50 ager (so TR haven’t master Plans for me)
atm, i am on a Half Distance Triathlon Plan and removed swimming, not optimal, but OK, the funny thing, today i have a " Rendezvous" workout on my TR calendar, but my Training Load on Garmin looks like this:
So Garmin suggest me to do a 01:17 Base ride on arround 61% FTP or 100bpm
or a Base Run workout @125 bpm, so for today not bad, when you see my Training Load and for me the Training Load on Garmin ist the most time not so bad
I have a feeling that people will have similar views on the this as they do about Whoop. Yes it’s cool and it might even be a better way to carry out your training. But most people don’t have flexible enough schedules to simply change their training based on what the device tells them to do on any given day. Most people also like to know what their workouts look like a couple of days out just to help them prepare themselves.
The energy system training load breakdown has been available for a while and I can see that being good for relative beginners so that they can look at it and say “huh I never do any low aerobic training so maybe I should slow down and hit some endurance miles instead of doing gray zone miles all the time”
it works great for me the first days, after a lot of base workouts for running and cycling i got today “Threshold workouts” for running or cycling.
The good thing, with Garmin i haven’t only a power target, i can switch between power or hr targets, so i know, i have to ride my power target in a HR target too, mean, this information could be helpfull for TR workouts too.
i recreated the Garmin workout on Training Peaks and sent them to my TR calendar!
it looks like the training load, intensity and so, is nearly to my Tri Plan without swimming, i do more or less Duathlon like training
it worked a while not so bad, but since some month it isn’t useable, something have changed in the background with new sleep analyze on the watch (FR945) and Recovery Time Advisor, mostly i don’t get a suggestions or my AT Training (Sprint Triathlon without Swim Workouts) is too hard
I’ve tried around a bit now, have changed my HR values in Garmin a bit, not the ones for sport, but the general ones.
Because I increase the recovery time on simple walks with my dog.
So I increased the Lacatat threshold value by 3bpm, and now I have good suggestions for running training again, anyway it looks like important to have a really full recovery day in a week, mean you need one day where Recovery time is equal zero, so Garmin tells you fully recovered
The Daily Suggested Workout aims to balance your training load across all 3 zones (Low Aerobic, High Aerobic and Anaerobic), and will take into account improvements in fitness and fatigue.
This will build your overall general fitness. However, it is not aimed at preparing you for the demands of a specific event in the way the Base/Build/Specialty progression of TrainerRoad does.
The video linked here shows the improvement someone found from following the Garmin DSW workouts for just 1 month. (Admittedly this is running rather than cycling).
I got a fenix 6 a few weeks ago. I am slowly building my run fitness after a knee surgery in the fall and decided to loosely follow a combination of Garmin suggested workouts and TrainNow. I am planning to complete several triathlons this summer, including a sprint, Olympic and 70.3IM. My typical week has 3 bikes, 4 runs, 3 swims, 3 body weight/mobility workouts. I understand that Garmin’s recommendations are to improve “general fitness”, but since I am not at the pointy end of the stick, I am mostly looking for fun and fitness and no injuries.
Day 1: TR/Garmin recommended a near identical threshold workout → I did morning TN recommended threshold workout & afternoon strength/mobility
Day 2: Garmin recommended rest or easy aerobic → I did morning easy run & afternoon swim workout
Day 3: TR = endurance, Garmin = rest/easy aerobic → I did morning easy bike & afternoon strength/mobility
I will try to remember to update my results if people are interested. Let me know.
since i use a Apple Watch 7 as a 24hours watch and Forerunner 945 (OHR and this things are all disabled) or Edge 830 only for workouts, i have better suggested workouts.
Apple Watch have much better Spo2 Results as this shit of Forerunner 945 where i get 4 hours recovery for a half hour of easy Dog Walks
I wear my fenix 6 for everything and record all activities with it (even to the point I charge it while I am simultaneously recording an indoor bike workout to minimize the time I’m not wearing it). So far the recommendations and recovery times have made sense to me.
I’ve done polarized plans, 80/20 plans and TR plans all to positive affect. I’m mostly doing this as an experiment because I’m curious.
