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The way plans are built takes a lot into consideration, including how to progress an athlete appropriately in each training zone, where the athlete is in their plan, and what their goals are. The plans also balance the order in which workouts are prescribed, also based on the zones targeted. We don’t recommend moving workouts out of order for both of those reasons. That said, we know that life happens, which is exactly why we built AT.
AT can handle what you might be trying to accomplish by moving around workouts:
If you know you won’t be able to work out on a certain day, AT addresses that, but only if you add a ‘time off’ annotation on the day or range of dates where you know you can’t train.
To do this, click “+” on Calendar, add annotation, and choose Time Off as the annotation type. Opt to adapt your plan when prompted.
If you had an unforeseen conflict arise and had to skip a workout (i.e. take unplanned time off), just skip the workout, and AT will adapt your plan appropriately. (This may not always trigger an adaptation, because there are circumstances where you wouldn’t need to change your plan just because you missed one workout.)
If you want to ride for a different duration than your scheduled workout on a certain day, wait until that day, then load and complete a different workout with the desired duration and level. AT will take the completed workout into consideration with calculating your Progression Levels, and will make sure that future scheduled workouts in that training zone reflect any changes in your levels.
If you want to do an extra workout that wasn’t on your plan, go ahead and add that to whatever day you plan to complete the workout, or simply load and complete the desired workout on the day in question. AT will take the completed workout into account when computing your Progression Levels, and will make sure that future scheduled workouts in that training zone reflect any changes in your levels.
If you’re used to manually adjusting your plan to adapt around life’s uncertainties, it can feel weird to sit back and let AT do the heavy lifting. We made AT to automate how so many athletes need to manually adapt their own plans, the goals being to 1) save the athletes time and mental load, and 2) reduce/eliminate the stress of second-guessing whether you’re adapting in a way that will benefit your training.
Try giving AT a chance to handle these kinds of situations, and see how it goes!
EDIT: the fix was released where moving/dragging workouts no longer disassociates them from Adaptive Trianing!
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IMC it only went up a SS PL from less than 3 to 4.2, I did decide it was too big a step if I added more. It did take me a while to find the right workout which had the same IF, TSS and power profile as the B25/8 which hopefully achieved more realistic PL changes.
I’m probably not the best candidate for AT Beta especially because I’m in no mood to be doing over unders right now. I think these not recommended rides are not updating my PL’s -I currently have a support reques in to check on this.
