![]() These are plotted against the same timeframes as above, and allows us to see that I’m the fastest, and The Girl works the hardest. But one way or another, at least I won the sleep category!īelow that are team graphs, which again, you can customize a fair bit. I found it funny there’s a ‘Worst Avg Sleep’ option, but no ‘Best Avg Sleep’ option. There’s also the ability to see ‘At a glance’ type metrics, which can be slightly customized. Thus since only The Girl has done a run this week to date, she’s the only one that has activity steps. It also doesn’t help her that the three of us are dual/triplicate recording our workouts on Garmin devices for testing, inflating our numbers.Īlso, it only shows ‘activity steps’ (so those from workouts), and not 24×7 steps. So in the case of Des/GPLama/myself, our only workouts to date this week are cycling, whereas The Girl’s only workout this week (it’s Tuesday morning) is running. For example, there’s currently a bug (set to be fixed shortly) that cycling activities don’t get their speeds filtered out from the running paces. And as you’re probably noticing, the metrics are a bit quirky. If I swipe right I can see the various metrics, and also customize them up above. #SorryNotSorry, being awesome isn’t easy), you can see all the athletes and averages across the time period specified at the top. Opening up ‘The A Team’ (I realize my naming is confusing. I can also see which data types each athlete has approved: For example, if Des is slacking, he’ll get kicked off the team. If I crack open ‘Team Awesome’ settings, I can add more teams, add athletes, and remove athletes. There’s also some settings up in the corner: You can see my organization name up top, and then the sports/teams/athletes listed down below. Once that’s done, there’s nothing more for the athlete to do. It explicitly requires you approve the stress and sleep tracking data separately from the rest of your workout data:Īs part of that (as an athlete), you’ll choose the name your coach will see (which is where athletes should simply type ‘Greatest’), as well as the picture of the athlete. From there it redirects to a website where the athlete authorizes their Garmin Connect account to share information with the coach. The QR code is clever as it makes it easier for a coach standing on the side of the track to show it to an athlete who scans it on their phone. You can also send them a URL as well, which is a join URL. This is what allows you to invite someone. At the end of which it’ll give you this QR code page. In any case, I created a team (Team Awesome) and sub-team (The A Team) and assigned a sport to it. Once actually setup though it’ll make more sense. I’ll note that when you’re setting it all up for the first time, it’s a bit confusing. They can also have their own team mascot/images, as well as colors. You can have numerous Clubs/Teams within an organization, and numerous sub-teams within an organization. The way the Garmin app works there’s basically three levels: Also, you’ll add a picture and choose two colors for the club. Don’t worry, you can change it later, as I did about 12 times. Once installed you’ll create yourself an organization. The first thing to do was download the new app from the app store. As I’ll dive into more later, in the context of how this is positioned (as a team solution), this limitation isn’t a big deal today. As long as it uploads to Garmin Connect (which, is basically any Garmin fitness/outdoors device ever), then you’re good to go. But there’s no limitation on how old the device is. App Overview:īecause this is a Garmin app, it is restricted to data only from Garmin devices. And so in this case I got the app all installed, enrolled a few familiar faces as my athletes, and got to work. Now, while I’m certainly no coach, I can play one on TV. Compared to Polar, which leads with their team app solution (though, you’ve likely never used it unless you were on a team with it). ![]() And while Garmin has long had an educational group within the company that caters to that realm, they haven’t really had any cohesive app story to go along with it. It’s an area that Polar has played in for decades (no kidding), notably both on software and hardware. Instead, this most targets a much simpler goal: High school and college athletics departments, where a given coach/sport will purchase a pile of identical units for a team to use. A TrainingPeaks competitor today, this is not…at least for now. This app allows coaches, teams, organizations, and other athletic groups of socially distant people to have both their workouts, as well as daily sleep/stress metrics, consolidated into a single view. Garmin has dipped its toes into the coaching platform realm with the release of a new app today, called Garmin Clipboard.
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