I have regularly been strength training for over a year now without issues alongside my cycling plan, and ever since adaptive training introduced strength training and working sets I always seem to get a yellow day the day after strength training. Currently each week has 3 days of high intensity bik…

I’m not sure this will help you but I do 3 gym sessions a week and am on my bike/turbo 6 days a week. Of the 3 gym sessions, one involves legs and two are just upper body/core. I am 100% NOT killing myself in the gym sessions like somebody who focuses on strength alone but my muscles feel like they…

What do you have your “Training Approach” set to? Its found under Setings => Training Approch and can be set from “Conservative” to “Agressive”. While setting it to Agressive may not solve the Yellow syndrome for you its worth a look. I also get yellow days after a strength day

I think TR still needs to improve how its algorithm handles strength training, and I think TR needs to do more education about how we should be logging our strength workouts–how deep do we need to go for an exercise to count, which exercises are leg vs. whole body, how whole body and leg exercises a…

[image] thomag2: I always seem to get a yellow day the day after strength training. Stop strength training. Problem solved. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. :crazy_face: :crazy_face:

I’d experiment with removing the working sets from your core exercises and see if that makes a difference. Ultimately, you are the best judge if you feel recovered or ready for a session. IMO, the yellow days are just precautionary anyway.

This is super helpful to hear, thanks. Glad it’s not just me. I’ll keep plugging along, and maybe even add some upper body lifts to my routine and/or adjust my adaptive training to be more aggressive to play with things. Stoked to see TR add activities and looking forward to seeing how they update s…

Do you enter the sets in afterward in TR? I don’t get anything unless I go add the leg sets, then it’s a guaranteed Yellow the next day. I’ve just stopped updating the sets as a result. I don’t go super hard and mostly high rep or body weight stuff so I never get DOMS from leg days.

[image] thomag2: What’s the most likely issue? That I’m calculating working sets wrong? Are you lifting to or nearly to failure? If not, then don’t record the working sets. The idea is that it’s recognising the damage you’re doing to your legs and giving you an endurance day, but if this is…

That’s funny any leg sets make a yellow day. Makes it seem like you can never do any strength training for the legs unless you are only doing like 2 high intensity bike days per week. On the flip side, I generally won’t do leg sets the day after threshold or high TSS workouts/rides.

Always get a yellow day after strength training

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Always get a yellow day after strength training

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