Garmin has today announced that athletes can now pause training status on compatible Forerunner, fēnix and MARQ smartwatches, as well as Edge GPS cycling computers. Training status is a performance monitoring tool that evaluates an athlete’s recent exercise history and lets them know if they’re training productively, peaking or overreaching.
“Training status is a great way to see how our training is progressing, but our fitness goals change often,” said Dan Bartel, Garmin Vice President of Worldwide Sales. “Whether coming off a hard training cycle or recovering from an injury or illness, it can be deflating when you have a setback; so now, we have created a way to turn the feature off and on as needed so you can run or ride more casually, or simply take a break.”
When an athlete pauses training status, their smartwatch or Edge cycling computer will continue to analyse daily training data and provide VO2 max and training load, but feedback related to training status, training load focus, optimal training load ranges and daily suggested workouts will be turned off.
While training status is paused, athletes can continue to use their smartwatch or Edge cycling computer. When they are ready to monitor their training progress again, the training status feature will start calculating immediately based on all recent activity recorded by their device. Instructions on how to pause and resume training status can be found on the Garmin blog.
