Garmin Folks,
How do you track your strength training? Do you track all your rest between sets on your watch or just track your entire session as “1 set”.
I often forget to click on my watch after a set and I think the TR fatigue prediction doesn’t like that.
Mine just uploads as one single workout. I don’t think going through the pain of trying to categorize each detail adds as much value as the hassle is worth.
Yeah I just start the timer under strength and stop when I’m done. It’s not worth the effort imho. Even when I’ve made the effort it doesn’t capture reps real accurately and not at all depending on what you’re doing.
Exactly this.
If you’re using RLGL then no it doesn’t like that as it’s looking at work time and it will count all your rest time as work time and trigger a yellow or red more easily, I think.
A 90 minutes total strength time might be more like 30 minutes work time so those are two vastly different things.
Even if you don’t want to do the very tedious task of filling out all the details of what each thing was in Garmin ( so ridiculously tedious), it’s still probably best to press the lap button at the start and end of a working set for RLGL purposes.
I currently do fill out all the stuff in Garmin, but I never remember go back and do the full/upper/lower in TR. Not sure how that’s hurting the math there but they don’t show me a sweet colored in dude of all the muscles I hit so what’s the motivation?
And on that dude, how the heck do you get the neck to not be gray?!?
Shouldn’t it take into account heart rate patterns? I would expect it similar to like a very mild intervals session (spikes and drops) - as those are basically rests between as well. Difference being for myself a weightlifting set may go up to 140 bpm while a strong short interval may be 155-160. I’ve never really noticed or considered a weight lifting session to impact red light green light, but I pair them with cycling interval days anyways so the next day is always endurance ride or rest.
When Strength was first added, Nate said to only include sets taken to failure. I’d bet that you didn’t spend 90 minutes going to failure, so I wouldn’t take the RLGL response too seriously.
RLGL? For strength probably not. Maybe but probably not.
It’s definitely weird for strength and as noted was said to only count sets to failure even though nearly all of the user base here said that made no sense.
Either way having it think you were lifting 100% of the time for a strength session is probably doing some stuff it won’t like since it is intentionally only taking I work time for those of us hitting lap between sets.
I tried one session to failure last month, I don’t know I’ll do it again. I did upper body after a swim. My biceps hurt for days and days. The rest was fine.
This is the only session I’ve marked sets in TR
Thanks everyone for your answers. I’m clearly not the only one who’s a little confused by that. It would be great to have someone from TR to weigh on it. RLGL is probably not accurate if everyone is doing it differently.
I definitely just set it to ‘free’, press stop when I’m done with the session then upload. I then add the working set totals to the TR workout by editing the uploaded session in the calendar.
Its been working great. It’s only caused adaptions to the TR plan when its been a heavy leg session, which is exactly what I would expect.
I run it as one timer but I try to add the sets on the app afterwards, so that it shoes which muscles you’ve worked on. I like the visual for that as well, so I find it worthwhile.
Hey there,
Sets that are recorded (whether automatically or manually) on training devices will not be automatically categorized/recognized by TR.
If you’d like to have your working sets recognized by TR, you have to enter them manually once your workout is uploaded. Here’s how:
Hope that clears things up. Feel free to let us know if you have any additional questions!
Thanks for your answer @ZackeryWeimer,
I’m not wondering about the sets as I just input them into TR and I don’t really care what Garmin says about that. But, if I click on the interval button on my Garmin between every set, It will show a different working time on TR.
For example, my workout this morning was 21min but only 8minutes of ‘‘working time’’.
So does RLGL look at the 8 minutes or 21 minutes. if it looks at the 8 minutes, then it is important to record all our rest time on Garmin
I just record a single strength activity for the duration of my workout, I hate Garmin’s strength workout interface, it’s the single largest improvement they could make for me. I use an app called Jefit to track my actual workouts, it will send to Strava but not to Garmin, I wish they would add third party support because Garmin’s strength interface for creating workouts is dreadful.
Good question! I am checking in with the engineers who worked on strength integration for TR on this.
@ZackeryWeimer were you able to get me answer on this?
If anyone else is wondering, I got an answer back from TR today.
Hi there,
Thanks for getting back to us! That’s correct—you don’t need to use the lap function between sets if you don’t want to. You can enter the number of Working Sets in TrainerRoad after completing your Strength Training activity.
That said, we understand athletes like using the lap function between sets to mark distinct exercises within their Strength Training activity, which seems to trigger this bug.
I hope this helps! If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to include them in your respons
Are they saying the bug is the 8 minutes being looked at and not the full time of 21 minutes?
Not sure how that is a bug, if they consider that a bug then strength training is more broken than we thought in TR.
