Workout builder

How do you get those files onto your bolt?

Do you know of any tools that can help me create workouts (like zwofactory) that are compatible with Garmin Edge?

Intervals.icu will upload planned workouts to Gamin Connect. Just tick the box in the Garmin area in /settings. You can also download workouts in fit file format and manually load those onto your Edge.

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Thanks!

Any chance you have access to a Suunto device by now? If model makes a difference, mine is 9 Peak Pro.

Joël

Hello.
When providing " * and whatever additional text you like" is it possible to give %FTP value so on my watch there is real for example 150W or I have to insert calculated Watts manually for each step into text field?
Thanks

There is another thread about this. It appears to be a problem on Suunto’s side. There is a workaround:

Great, I will try that!

Strange bug on Suunto side by the way :slight_smile:

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Hi all,
New here and absolutely loving the features, made me drop any other app I could have used to manage my training :slight_smile:
I’ve seen someone asking if there was a possibility to edit the workouts using W/kg instead of W or %FTP, is it possible? I couldn’t figure it out if it is possible.
I would like to add some generic workouts to my library such as “1h ride at 2.6 W/kg” to plan for Zwift rides with Robopacers. Using W/kg would allow for the planned intensity and Load to adjust automatically with weight and FTP changes, without having to go back and edit the workout in the library.

Thanks. Currently you have to specify workouts using % of FTP. This makes them portable between athletes and they automatically adjust when you change your own FTP. If you used w/kg then it wouldn’t adjust to FTP changes, only weight.

Wouldn’t workouts adjust on FTP changes AND (require) weight (and weight changes)?

Yes you’re right, the number of watts would change only with weight, not FTP. What I meant what the planned load and intensity that would adjust: new FTP means different %FTP for the given W/kg that is indicated in the workout, hence different load and intensity; same for the weight.
But I can see the application is quite limited and may only be planning for Robopacer sessions in Zwift, which are at a prescribed W/kg.

I’m very interested in nested sets as well. I’m trying this out for the first time, and I want to put together a short-shorts / microburst type workout for cyclocross. Something like:

  • Repeat 6x
    • Work period 6x
      • 30s 150%
      • 30s 50%
    • 3m recovery 50%

For now just doing this via copy-paste is not too bad a solution, though.

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Especially for swimming that would be nice.

There is already a lot of repeats for the laps and when it says: main set: 3 times then that’s a lot of duplicate stuff :wink:

There is a yoga workout that i want to do everyday. Is there a way to have it reccuring without manually adding it everytime ?

Recurring isn’t possible at the moment. But you can create a “plan” copy the workout on every day of a single week (there is a copy on dragging checkbox in the library window) and then copy the first week to more weeks (e.g. 52). Then assign yourself to the plan and apply the changes.

That way you have the workout on every day and should you ever want to delete them, the yes and others will delete all of those

Hey all, really trying to navigate and learn the app. The workout builder is intuitive but definitely a learning curve because of the natural language model. I’m trying to learn how do I word an interval rest period so Garmin will prompt “rest” instead of “run”

If the power, heart rate or pace is very low then Intervals.icu will set the intensity of the step to RECOVERY and I think Garmin will then prompt “rest”.

“Very low” is defined as follows:

  • Power: 50% of Z1 max power
  • HR: 80% of Z1 max HR
  • Pace: 80% of Z1 max pace
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Great stuff! Love the work done to integrate Coros also. Any chance chance the workout. builder can pass “Effort Pace” and “% Effort Pace”?

Coros Intensity

That isn’t supported in the API docs I have. I will ask them if they have updated docs. This would probably require a checkbox in the Coros box in /settings to use effort pace instead of pace for uploaded workouts.

This is amazing, never thought I would code my workouts, now I am :slight_smile:!