Adaptive training in Criterium plan

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Hi all

I’ve moved from zwift to tr to experience the adaptive training option. I enabled the adaptive training option in my settings.
I’ve loaded a speciality criterium plan .
Question is whether the adaptive training option only applies to plans that are done via plan builder? I.e. build phase, sweet spot phase, speciality phase and so on ? Or it can be applied to any training block that you load into your calendar ?

Thanks

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AT currently only works with plans added to your calendar via Plan Builder. It may change in future to work on/adapt any plans or workouts that you add.

Also I don’t believe it works on Speciality plans, just Base and Build. Not completely sure on that as I’ve not done a speciality plan whilst on AT, best that @IvyAudrain or someone from TR confirms it.

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Hey

Thanks for coming back to me. Based on the screenshot and stuff that I’ve just found , the answer is not yet by the looks of it.

Hope it gets added soon.

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Generally in software you add one thing at a time then it’s easier to debug (fix any problems) than adding A, B & C and then not knowing what’s broken things. At the moment they (TR) are looking at getting outdoor rides correctly - this is a big task, they were originally just looking at having TR outdoor workouts done but felt that doing outdoor rides all together was a better route.

There’ll be other items, including non Plan Builder plans and workouts in the pipeline.

Have a play around with Plan Builder. As a suggestion put an ‘A’ event about 8-10 weeks out. PB tends to do repeats of Base - Build until shortly before the event when it switches to Speciality so if you fiddle things you might get a week or two of Build then the rest Speciality leading up to your “event”. No guarantee that AT will work on that part of the plan though.

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Hey

I get that software debugging is better done a step by step option to see what actually caused the issue.
The trick with setting up an event closely to the plan start date might reduce the build phase. I might actually type in repeated crit races every 4 weeks to see how whis will affect it.

Thanks

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Adaptive training does work on specialty plans, I’m halfway through CX specialty and have been getting them. If people watched my YouTube vlog series they’d know lol

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When setting up plan builder, if you select “I’ve done a lot of interval training”, it will reduce the amount of base and build in favor of speciality.

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That, and messing with backdating the start date of the plan can usually get what people want, with some repeat tries.