Adding time to warmup?

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I tried searching for a answer. But did not find what I am searching for.

Is there a option for adding time to the warmup. Im not a fan of hard starts, and would like to add more warmup time.

TrekCentury 2

https://support.trainerroad.com/hc/en-us/articles/360033045211-How-Do-I-Extend-My-Warmup-Cooldown

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I canā€™t see the extend warmup button when looking in windowsā€¦

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Iā€™m an apple user. No pc . Maybe @eddie or contact support.

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Can you show us a screenshot of what youā€™re seeing?

The option is available while you are in the first and last interval of the workout, you are given the opportunity to extend the warmup in one, five, and ten-minute increments.

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Ah, is it only whilst youā€™re doing the workout? I was looking in advance at my calendar at a future workoutā€¦

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there are, however, some workouts (like Black) which do not have an ā€œextend warmupā€ option, which is a bit annoying for us old farts who canā€™t do anything in 3:00 minutes : )

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I always get on the trainer and pedal for about 5 min before starting the workout. Then hop off. Being old, Iā€™m always forgetting something. Fan ,IPad , water food, heart rate monitorā€¦.

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Any workout that has a warmup should give you the option to extend it in the bottom right corner once the workout starts.

Hereā€™s what I see on my PC.

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In the workout shown, I consider the first three intervals (stepping up) to be the warmup. Do the extend interval buttons work in each of those? Personally, on some tougher workouts with shorter warmup progressions, I like to repeat the whole warmup. In Wahoo Systm, I could do that by dragging the progress indicator back to where I wanted it which was very handy.

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No. We only extend the first bit of the warmup.

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I like that idea of being able to repeat the warming intervals, thoughā€¦

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Thatā€™s probably why I never noticed those buttons. Iā€™m never thinking about or looking to extend that first low power interval. Itā€™d be during or after the higher power warmup intervals that Iā€™d realize I need more. Sometimes Iā€™m fine with the warmup as is, but it isnā€™t until Iā€™m just about done with the warmup block that I know.

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I usually extend the warmup in the low zone1 section, but then ramp up the % to get it into zone2 for at least a bit of itā€¦ before the strong warmup sections start.

I do believe if you click pause, you can move the progress bar back in time (or ahead) to redo the section, it unfortuneatly will then overwrite that part of the workout with the new data (I believe from past reading/podcasts?). I have only used to skip / scrub ahead during extra long recovery sections when short of time

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On PC, yes. On the phone appā€¦itā€™s not always there

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Thanks TrekCentury,
Been using TR for years and have not even looked at that part of the screen. Usually just start peddling and go.

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can it also be used to extend rest interval between hard intervals if things become too hard for VO2max / threashold sessions?

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is there a way to this in zwift?

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Do you know if, in those situations, there would have been an option on the desktop app?

I do believe that, as you mentioned earlier, there are some workouts where you donā€™t have the option to extend the warmup..

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Not that Iā€™m aware of. :thinking:

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Dexter, no there isnā€™t a button option for that. You can pause workout and scrub back in time by click/drag of the current position line to move it back in time (will overwrite the data for the section you are redoing). Not sure how that effects WO scoring ,TSS/IF, AI view of the training and effects similar to a ā€˜pauseā€™?..