Name: Guided Workouts
Rating: 4.3 (4 reviews)
Author: Paul.Stevens

This is the first release of a Guideed Workout data field for devices that do not have built in  support for guided workouts.

Please give me feedback on the forums.

https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?368311-Guided-Workouts-BETA



How to use Guided Workouts:

1. Use the Connect App / Garmin Express to configure the Data Field Settings.

2. When you Enable Guided Workouts, the display will change to allow for the guided workout to be displayed.

3. The watch will vibrate and use colors to indicate if you are keeping to the guided workout.

* Blue Indicates that you are going too slow, or your heart rate is too low

* Green indicates that you are in the desired zone

* Yellow indicates that you are going too fast, or your heart rate is too high

How to Create a Guided Workout:

For now, you will have to create guided workouts manually; I might build a companion app in the future. It is however relatively simple to do.

Here is an example of a guided workout configuration.

1,T,600,HR,1|R,2|2,T,300,HR,5|3,D,1000,P,1|E|4,L,0,HR,1|

Ok, So what does that mean.

Each step in the workout is separated by a | character, so in the example above the steps are.

1,T,600,HR,1 - Step (1), Run for a Time (T), (600) Seconds, Guided by Heart Rate (HR), Zone (1)

R,2 - Start a Repeat (R), Repeat Twice (2)

2,T,300,HR,5 - Step (2), Run for a Time (T), (300) Seconds, Guided by Heart Rate (HR), Zone (5)

3,D,1000,P,1 - Step (3), Run for a Distance (D), (1000) Meters, Guided by Pace (P), Zone (1)

E - End Of Repeat

4,L,0,HR,1 - Step (4), Continue until Lap Button Pressed (L), (0) Not Used for Lap Button, Guided by Heart Rate (HR), Zone (1)

OK so a bit more detail.

Each step has 5 parameters seperated by a comma (,) ex. 4,L,0,HR,1

1. Step number, this should be sequential.

2. Step Type can be Time (T), Distance (D) or Lap (L)

3. Step Configuration, Either Seconds for T, or Meters for D, use 0 for L

4. Step Zone Type, Heart Rate (HR), Pace (P)

5. Zone, Can be 1 - 5

Repeats can also be created to repeat a certain step or series of steps more than once. a repeat is started with a repeat step ex. R,2

1. Repeat (R) this indicates that the steps that follow must be repeated.

2. Number of repeats (2). this can be any number.

Repeats must be ended with a End (E) step, as per the above example.