There’s so much at your fingertips today, back when I was starting out I had to go out and hunt for books! I’m along the same lines of thinking as Brad. I’m an older athlete with 20+ years in my legs, but back when I was starting out I remember reading a lot of books. From this I pulled the ideas that I either liked or made sense to me and tried them - over time lots of different training methods rather than just one or two. You eventually start to get a grasp and a feel on how your body responds to the different training and stimuli and how you are recovering and progressing; over the years and decades I’ve taken the best bits of various approaches and tailored them to my needs and what my body responds best to FWIW I have followed guides and training plans in the past for half and full marathons, but the results were usually mixed. The downside is that they’re ultimately just generic plans in which everybody is going to respond differently to. Maybe do some research into who some of the top or accomplished people are in your sport and do some digging into what works for them, then trial and error it until you start to get a feel of what’s working or not working. Again as Brad mentioned AI could be another good option, my training partner used ChatGPT to write him a training program for a 50km that we both recently raced and that worked well for him

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Google Assistant Issues: make sure you have given the WearOS app location permissions That might have been the issue. Unfortunately, I sent it back before seeing this for a replacement. The replacement comes Sunday. If I have this issue on the replacement, I will definitely check this. Thanks for the help!

It should be easy to have it as a “widget”

@Sarah-Gribble “alternative supplier” called aliexpress. Can’t judge about the quality in general, but the strap I bought is pretty good. The only thing I notice are quite big cast partingline seams… I must say that I normally prefer to buy original parts, but the colors I was looking for were not available from Suunto.

@Brad_Olwin thank you…I’m looking forward to your report. It becomes problematic when e.g. on a long bike tour does not start with 100%.I find it a little annoying to always keep an eye on the battery consumption… Well, let’s get some experience now… Still a very nice watch.

@Storz Here a solution : https://forum.suunto.com/topic/3866/suunto-7-tips-and-tricks-apps-and-watch-faces/84?_=1583845623074

nope. Never had this bheaviour

Plus I found that it is sufficient to switch to Airplane mode and back to restore the connection

Yes, now it has worked thk

@Holby19 said in How do you change HR zones on Suunto 7.: @Brad_Olwin got it. Thank you. I will increase the max so the lower zones are more accurate. Is this something that they might change with a future update? I sure hope so, but can’t say for sure. I am surprised it wasn’t configurable out of the box.

Thanks for the replies isazi and NickK. I’ve now tried lots of approaches and it still doesn’t work like before. It’s OK (but not desirable) because I usually only wear the watch during exercise so the watch face doesn’t really come into play.

I’m trying some options. If I select “keep points only with position” I get a smooth rhythm graphic Old [image: 1589962511056-cf504a31-b01d-4489-8a05-7a1a4f05cd18-image.png] New [image: 1589962551049-b3672889-424a-4a91-9077-88ec99a6a262-image.png]

I hope Suunto developers take into account the battery problems reported by users who do outside activities like you and me. Battery consumption is really excessive and beyond the expectations of a product of this level. We look forward to the next update.

@Brad_Olwin Nothing, in fact for this I was amazed. No possible overload of the proceasor with particular apps. I had also thought of prolonged involuntary pressure on the top left button, but it didn’t happen.

@Rafal-Walecki : Where do you get a save button? When I record an activity at the end when reviewing the detail you get a close option or a delete option - no save option. Never had this issue.

Mine before too, amazfit watch …

@Jamie-BG @RussellllR Thanks for the suggestions! I guess I’d started a bad habit of using the upper left button instead of swiping right like I used to do.

@Jamie-BG be careful. Those Sync-Apps are basically syncing into SportsTracker. And while it’s sharing the database with the Suunto App, I found that some data is missing when importing this way.

@Egika oops! my fault sorry