Quick plan

is a command line tool to define, import, schedule and share GarminConnect workouts i.e. weekly based training plans.

An example of a workout definition notation:

running: 15k, 3x3.2k @HMP
- warmup: 2km @z2
- repeat: 3
  - run: 3200m @ 5:05-4:50
  - recover: 800m @z2
- run: 1km @z2
- cooldown: lap-button

and the tool’s job is actually to translate it to this:
15k workout

File format

The file format is a spreadsheet exported to csv format. The 1st row is reserved for heading, can be anything (you define your first day of a week etc.). The 1st column is reserved for a week number. The cells represent days and they are populated with workouts (definitions and references), so there’s a limitation: a single workout per day/cell, for now. In case of the references, a workout needs to be defined first in one of the previous cells and then it can be referenced by name in the following cells.

An example of 2-weeks training plan, containing 2 workout definitions, 4 references and 6 training days in total:

Week	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
1	`running: run-fast` `- warmup: 10:00 @ z2` `- repeat: 3` `- run: 1.5km @ 540` `- recover: 500m @ z2` `- cooldown: 05:00`	rest	rest	run-fast	rest	rest	rest
2	run-fast	`cycling: cycle-wo` `- bike: 15 km @ 20.0-30kph`	rest	run-fast	rest	rest	cycle-wo

Checkout a complete training plan for 80K ultra. It was originally published in an article on Runner’s world website - here’s the link.

Installation

Java 8 is a prerequisite, make sure you have it installed
Go to the releases page of this project
Download latest release zip file and unzip it somewhere on your computer
Enter bin folder and run quick-plan command (use quick-plan.bat if you are a Windows user or mark quick-plan script as executable on Linux or Mac systems)

Command line options

quick-plan --help
quick-plan 0.x
Usage: quick-plan [import|schedule] [options] <file>
  -e, --email <value>      E-mail to login to Garmin Connect
  -p, --password <value>   Password to login to Garmin Connect
  -m, --measurement_system <value>
                           "metric" (default) or "imperial" (miles, inches, ...) measurement system choice.
  -x, --delete             Delete all existing workouts with same names as the ones that are going to be imported.
  -c, --auto-cooldown      Add automatically cooldown: lap-button as an additional last step of each workout definition.
  --help                   prints this usage text
  <file>                   File with a weekly based plan in CSV format
Command: import
Imports all workout definitions from CSV file.
Command: schedule [options]
Schedules your weekly plan defined in CSV in Garmin Connect calendar, starting from the first day of first week or ending on the last day of the last week. Either start or end date must be entered so the scheduling can be done properly. In case both are entered, start date has priority. All dates have to be entered in ISO date format e.g. '2018-03-24'.
  -s, --start <value>      Date of the first day of the first week of the plan
  -n, --end <value>        Date of the last day of the last week of the plan
EXAMPLES
#Imports all the workouts from ultra 80k plan
quick-plan import -e your-mail-address@example.com ultra-80k-runnersworld.csv
#Deletes all the workouts from ultra 80k plan
quick-plan -x your-mail-address@example.com ultra-80k-runnersworld.csv
#Schedules ultra 80k plan targeting 28-4-2018 for a race day, while previously deleting if any with the same name already exists
quick-plan schedule -n 2018-04-29 -x -e your-mail-address@example.com ultra-80k-runnersworld.csv

Workout notation

The reserved keywords of the notation are: workout, warmup, cooldown, run, bike, go, repeat, recover and lap-button.

<workout> := <header>(<newline><step>)+

<header> := [running | cycling | custom]: <name>

<name> := [\u0020-\u007F]+ (printable ascii characters)

<step> := <indent>- <step-def>

<step-def> := <simple-step> | <repetition-step>

<repetition-step> := repeat: <count>(<newline><step>)+ (with each r. step, depth is increased by 1 - check <indent>)

<duration> := <distance-duration> | <time-duration> | lap-button

<distance-duration> := <number> (km | m | mi)

<time-duration> := <minutes>:<seconds>

<zone-target> := z[1-6]

<pace-target> := <pace> - <pace> (mpk | mpm)?

<hr-target> := \d{1,3} - \d{1,3} bpm

<power-target> := \d{1,3} - \d{1,3} W

<cadence-target> := \d{1,3} - \d{1,3} rpm

<speed-target> := <kph-speed> - <kph-speed> (kph | mph)?

<pace> := <minutes>:<seconds>

<kph-speed> := \d{1,3}(\.\d)?

<minutes> := \d{1,3}

<seconds> := \d{2}

<newline> := [\r\n]

<indent> := \s{depth * 2} (depends on depth parameter related to the repetion step / starts from 0)

Unit of measurements (metric vs imperial)

As Garmin supports metric and imperial measurement systems, quick-plan can do this as well. There are two ways of usage:

implicit (through the tool configuration (see the option -m) or
explicit (it can be specified within the workout definition by using units:
- km vs mi (for distance),
- kph vs mph (for speed) and
- mpk vs mpm (for pace).

If not specified -m value from configuration will be used (‘metric’ by default).

Known issues

It is highly recommended to use Google Spreadsheets or LibreOffice Calc to edit CSV files, as they both force line-feed (LF)
instead of carriage-return (CR) character for internal line breaks when defining workouts.
The parser we use is not able to parse CR values within the quoted values at the moment.