A Different Way to Build Training Plans

[jonnyknight]

Having recently completed Polarized Base & Build, I need to put another plan in place but I’m struggling to find a schedule and style that matches well with the way I like to ride. This got me thinking about how nice it would be to be able to select the days I want to train along with the length, intensity, indoors or outdoors, and style of riding, then let the AI work its magic.

For example:
M - off
T - 90-120min Z1/2 /outdoors
W - 60-120min Intervals /indoors or outdoors
T - 90-120min Z1/2 /outdoors
F - recovery or off /indoors
S - 3-5hr group ride /outdoors
S - 2+hr XC MTB /outdoors

I realize this is not too different than some of the existing plans but I struggle with how to work in my longer weekend rides. I’m also finding that as a Masters athlete, just 1 or 2 intense sessions per week seem to work best for me.

Anyways, just a thought… maybe it’s been discussed before and likely that these challenges will be eliminated with AT v2 (or whatever it’s called) that will analyze outdoor rides.

[Pbase]

There are tons of us asking for this. Nate has said it’s coming in the future.

[Pbase]

Some fun reading

The other upcoming feature mentioned in the podcast

Our red light/green light project does take outside rides into account right now in our internal thing. As you said, it wouldn’t be useful without it.

Time limit options in Plan Builder [Feature Request]

For life reasons (work + studying take a good bunch of time) I’m time-limited each day to ~60 minutes max but have this time free most days, with the added plan builder tool it would be nice to say limit all workouts to X minutes for Y days a week. I’d like my plan to have 4 or 5 days a week but them all be a bit shorter/have a set time limit. I just feel it would allow flexibility to build plans around not only my goals but also the limitations of life, clearly this wouldn’t give the improveme…

[OreoCookie]

To add to @Pbase’s posts: scoring of unstructured outdoor rides is as far as I understand at the top of TR’s priority list. When AT was first revealed Nate said that they had planned to release it alongside, but it wasn’t good enough yet. More flexible training plans is scheduled after that. So I wouldn’t expect both to be released at the same time.