Apologies if i’ve missed this, but is there any option to automatically approve every adaptation as it is recommended, rather than checking the app/website and manually accepting each one? A small gripe, but makes it easier to just get on with the riding and whats next than evaluating my workouts each time. tia
I’m on the last few weeks of the SSB2MV training plan. So far so good when it comes to AT. I was away camping all week and missed 3 workouts - Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. I would have expected AT to tone down my Saturday (today) workout as a result, and possibly tomorrows’.
Here is my calendar for the last 2 weeks:
Is this standard behaviour for AT?
Known bug that other people have reported.
I think the “problem” here is that you didn’t miss any Threshold workout, so it does not need any adaption. And your Sweetspot at 4.8 is lower than the workouts you missed, so there is no reason to lower it further. It might very well be that after your next training tuesday and thursday workouts get downgraded. (I usually get the workout I missed the next week).
Should AT give different length workouts for an adaptation? AT is trying to adapt my 1 hour weekday workout to a 90 minute workout but I only have time for 60 minutes. Is it best to accept the adaptation and just use alternates to reduce it back to an hour the day of?
Since I cut Strava out of the equation I haven’t seen a single issue or inconsistency with the progression levels and survey responses. 3 or 4 weeks now of everything working as it should…
Thank you for the clear explanation. I think you’re right on the monies.
This ‘Big news’ about outside ride and progression levels is great. However I am confused by some of the associated comments.
My understanding is that now, I can do an outside ride, and later (for same day) pick a TR workout, mark it as outside and then associate it with that ride. That will count towards progression levels. Is that correct?
However, There seems to be chat about NOT doing this via Strava. or rather not also doing this via Strava and Garmin Connect. I run
- a Garmin 920 watch into Garmin connect
- GC then syncs with Strava
- I have both GC and Strava linked to my TR account.
So I think the forum recommendation is to disconnect my link from Strava to TR, and only rely on the single GC to TR link. (In other words GConnect acts as the source for both the other apps).
Is that the correct interpretation? Is this the recommended approach? Or is this noise? …or have I got confused?
Thanks for clarification in advance 
Not sure how they selected testers but I signed up almost immediately and have been a subscriber and regular user (3 - 4 times a week on average) for 5+ years and still waiting for the email. Not that worried as I am more than happy with the existing product but it is starting to feel like the TR team jumped the gun a bit on the announcement.
Fantastic value product nonetheless and I heartily recommend it!
Yes
This only relates to the Garmin outside workout functionality.
If you push a workout from TR to your Garmin, and then after completion it hits TR from Strava, the workout ID is not passed from Garmin>Strava>TR so TR doesn’t know which workout it was supposed to be and it was not affecting PLs.
However, the new fix (where any outside ride associated with a TR workout contributes to PLs) may fix this, as it seems like it should do - perhaps someone who’s tried it since can comment.
My guess is that they’ve prioritized users that were already using/testing beta software. My n=1: shortly after they announced AT, I signed up for the non-AT beta. After about 1 month, I was then in the AT-beta.
It may, yes. If you only have time for a 60 minute workout, use Workout Alternates to find something that matches what the Adaptation is suggesting (ie looks similar to the workout AT is suggesting you adapt to) and just select a 60 minute one! 
When adding time off (week long trip) to my plan, I was asked if I wanted TR to re-evaluate the existing plan and adaptations. I expected the first few workouts following the trip would change, considering I’d just missed several scheduled workouts, but all TR did was to delete the scheduled workouts and make no changes to the plan. When I came back later and cancelled the trip, it simply stuck the same workouts back on those days without changing anything else.
Shouldn’t taking days off change the progression/adaptations/plan?
I’m seeing similar behavior. What I think is happening is unless the break is real long the assumed degradation isn’t enough.
So you are PL level of 4.5 in threshold before vacation. Take a week and you should still be 4.5. Take a month and maybe it’s 3.9? 
But the behaviour of plans after recovery weeks indicates that TR does think it should reduce the PLs of workouts after a week of lower load. So why not after a week off?
I recall that there is, but I don’t know where that setting is. I couldn’t find it on a quick look through the website.
I recall Jonathon saying that that feature was planned.
Can say for certain but isn’t that just the periodalization of the plan without AT? Rest week, Power Test, lower workouts than the prior week due to higher FTP
I guess I thought that if I missed, say an endurance, a sweet spot, and a threshhold workout while I was traveling, It would want to make those up instead of just picking up where I would have been if I had done those workouts.
Yes, @Barry_Bean, that’s what I would want too. Perhaps send off a message to support?