This should help clear up confusion on how to answer surveys!
AT: Easy vs Moderate vs Hard vs ... [Pass / Success Survey Responses] - #60
Update! We’ve added more information on surveys to the ‘How to Use Adaptive Training’ article, I’ll post it here as well!
How to Rate Your Effort
- Easy
This workout felt easy and required little effort or focus and felt non-taxing.
(For context, this should feel like a little bit more than a recovery ride, ie you could do this again now and could pass it with no problem.)- Moderate
This workout was somewhat comfortable but required some focus to complete.
(This was a normal feeling workout where you’ll feel challenged a bit, but not as though you wouldn’t be able to finish it. I could do another set of intervals or extend the ride.)- Hard
This workout required effort and focus and was challenging to complete.
(This will feel tough and you’ll probably look forward to this workout ending, but if there was another interval, I could have done it.)- Very Hard
This workout was very difficult to complete.
(ie if there would have been one more interval, you wouldn’t have been able to do it.)- All Out
This workout was extremely difficult. It pushed me well beyond my abilities and took a massive amount of energy and focus to complete.
(You’ll feel like you barely made it to the end of this workout, and that you had to pull out every trick in the book mentally to finish it.)Its important to separate your expectation of what the workout will feel like (either from the Workout Level or from your Progression Levels) from what you actually experienced through doing the workout. Try to speak exclusively to how the workout felt, regardless of that context of expectation.
RE: Adaptation questions, it could be a combination of your survey but also how effectively you’re completing the workout (ie if the software is seeing you arent hitting your marks or dropping power because of the effort).
The best protocol for stuff like this is to reach out to support@trainerroad.com. They’ll have the best advice based upon the full scope of your workouts, adaptations, surveys, internal ride logs, and they’ll of course make sure everything is being accounted for properly. The team will be happy to help, drop them a note!