Cleaner workout step names on Garmin and other head units
Workout steps currently carry descriptive names (including the coach's warm-up and cooldown notes), which can crowd out the power/pace target on Garmin devices, especially smaller watches. This would keep step names short and clean on the device (Warmup, Cooldown, short interval labels) and move the coach's notes to the workout description, with an option to control how much text reaches your head unit.
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Martijn Russchen
Oct 27
Shipped. New workouts no longer put the coach's greeting and sign-off in the step names on your watch or bike computer. Your warm-up and cool-down now read "Warmup" and "Cooldown", so the target stays in view.
The greeting, coaching notes and prompts now only appear on indoor rides in Zwift, Rouvy and other apps that show on-screen messages. You can turn them off in Settings → Training → Coaching messages in workouts.
Ride steps still include the cadence in their name, because some Garmin Edge units don't show the cadence target otherwise. Workouts already on your calendar keep their current text; the next ones you get use the new names.
madpupil
Oct 27
Absolutely agree. I had to write my own workers script to do this for all my workouts. It makes it very difficult to see what the workout step targets are, as the step name occupies all the space on my watch