Using Garmin’s Daily Suggested Workout for running – Week 4

“Daily Suggested Workouts are workout recommendations made by your watch to provide a level of challenge to help you maintain or improve your current fitness level.”. This is the description of this feature from here https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=oYknGZ910l1pfBNzkDHX6A.

This is week 4 of what I will be doing from this test series. So far, it looks good, although previous week was quite lite (2 rest days), I got a trail running race on Sunday so it topped the week fully! Will see how this week goes, seems like a week with 3 base runs, one long run and a sprint. The other 2 days appear as rest now.

Here are the training stats details after 3 weeks of training. Info taken from Training Status on Garmin Connect page. Under ReportsAll activities.

Running VO₂ max: 52, no changes since last week. “VO₂ Max is a good indication of your cardiovascular fitness and should increase as your level of fitness improves.”

“Exercise load measures how much oxygen your body consumes for recovery after an activity. The longer or more intense the activity, the higher the score.”

“Acute training load is a weighted sum of your recent exercise load scores. It’s rated low, optimal or high based on your fitness level and training history.”. The green tunnel seems to be heading up now.

Acute Training Load graph appeared again!

Week 4MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
PlannedRestBase 30:00 @5:55 /kmBase 35:00 @5:55 /kmRestSprint 44:00 7×0:10 @3:00 /kmLong run 59:00 @5:55 /kmBase 36:00 @5:55 /km
ActualRestBase 30:00 @5:55 /kmBase 35:00 @5:55 /kmRestSprint 44:00 7×0:10 @3:00 /kmLong run 1:00:00 @5:55 /kmBase 39:00 @5:55 /km
This week’s plan as seen on Monday morning and the actual workout seen from the watch on each specific day.

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