Hi!
I have a question regarding garmin daily suggested workouts vs trainerroad. I am under impression that garmin knows me better because it tracks all my sleep, stress, and training while trainerroad only has my workout information. Today is a red day for trainerroad but a base day for garmin daily suggested workout. What are people’s thought on this?
Thank you!
I’ve found that if I keep things easy on Red Days I’m okay, I think TR is quite conservative, which is understandable due to a lot of amatuers training too hard and it’s better to be cautious than over train. However, I find that the information I get from Garmin is pretty accurate and aligns closely with how I feel, maybe do an easy hour to ninety minutes and see how that affects TR, overtime the AI might learn and adjust just how much load is enough/too much for you.
I tried the Garmin workouts, I think they are too intense for me.
I remember failing there threshold workouts because there was just too little recovery between sets.
Now Garmin would prescribe sprints workouts right after I may have done some VO2 work on TR.
If the workout has been pushed to Garmin I think it should know that my legs are shot from the work the day prior.
Garmin and TR each have more data along different axes. I‘d pick one and stick to that.
In my experience, TR traffic light feature works surprisingly well. So I stick to that.
My experience with the Garmin Coach workouts is that they seem disconnected from all of the other data that the Garmin device is collecting.
I feel that the Garmin workouts are scheduled in a way to keep you in the ‘optimal’ range for each of the 3 different zones (Anaerobic, High Aerobic, Low Aerobic), as opposed to having any method behind them that really takes those metrics into account.
Example: I would frequently have days where the Garmin would say ‘you slept like crap, and your body battery is low, but today’s workout is a 2 hour sprint session!!’
TR, on the other hand, doesn’t collect as much data, but adjusts more based on how you actually seem to be responding to the training. It’s still not perfect (IMO), but I feel that it’s a better option.
Every time I look at my suggested workouts, I always laugh. Just laughably easy.
