Garmin Training Status now populates for TrainerRoad workouts

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@ErickVH

People care about Garmin Training Status? Do people actually take the 50 hour recoveries that it recommends?

@ErickVH I followed Garmin Recovery Advisor recovery advice to the letter for quite a while. It keeps you in a fresh state but I’m not sure the training you do would be enough to induce optimal adaptation.

Here’s what it looked like:

You can read more about it in this thread:

TSS & the Garmin Recovery feature

I’ve been using a garmin 520 for nav/data recently. The 520 has a ‘recovery advisor’ which flashes a recovery time (in hours) AFTER a ride and flashes a recovery condition at the BEGINNING of a ride. Something pithy like ‘Good’ or ‘Fair’. I’ve always dismissed it as hokum & have never talked to anybody who takes it seriously. TSS, on the other hand, is fairly broadly accepted. But I’ve always said TSS OVERestimates long low intensity efforts and UNDERestimates short intense efforts. So it’…