Power Guide

You can create and use a power strategy to plan your effort on a course. Your Forerunner^® device uses your FTP, the course elevation, and the projected time it will take you to complete the course to create a customized power guide.

One of the most important steps in planning a successful power guide strategy is choosing your effort level. Putting a harder effort into the course will increase the power recommendations, while choosing an easier effort will reduce them (Creating and Using a Power Guide). The primary goal of a power guide is to help you complete the course based on what is known about your ability, not to achieve a specific target time. You can adjust the effort level during your ride.

Power guides are always associated with a course and cannot be used with workouts or segments. You can view and edit your strategy in the Garmin Connect™ app and sync it with compatible Garmin^® devices. This feature requires a power meter, which must be paired with your device (Pairing Your Wireless Sensors).
Power guide data

Creating and Using a Power Guide

Before you can create a power guide, you must pair a power meter with your watch (Pairing Your Wireless Sensors). You must also have a course loaded to your Garmin Connect account (Creating a Course on Garmin Connect ).

From the Garmin Connect app, select .
Select Training & Planning > Power Guide > Create Power Guide Strategy.
Follow the on-screen instructions to create the power guide.
Select .‍
Select your watch.
From the watch face, press .
On your watch, select an outdoor biking activity.
Scroll down to select Training > Power Guide.‍
Select a power guide.
Press , and select Use Plan.

TIP: You can preview the map, elevation plot, effort, settings, and splits. You can also adjust the effort, terrain, riding position, and gear weight before you start riding.

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Creating and Using a Power Guide