I assumed that training approach would be linked to “ramp rate” (and think that somewhere above there were hints given in that direction?). So in the following weeks you’d faster rise the progression levels.
Setting days should be independent of training approach…adding more days should just spread the load and reduce intensity as necessary.
To me that would make most sense but your example (thanks for sharing) suggests my assumption might not be correct.
Would love to hear from TR what the exact and correct intended behavior would be (so we can better separate bugs from intentional behavior).
I’m one of those people who has been in a situation of having fewer available training days, but more time to train on those days. My solution was to sub for longer workouts at similar progression levels. And a lot of runs for joint integrity. (“Might as well do a run too whilst I’m all sweaty”, etc.) It would be nice if the plan could take care of this multidimensionally: durations independent from number of days.
Thanks, when I select a 4 day week (from the recommended 5) I would have expected the other rides to have been unimpacted but it has actually revised down all remaining workouts rather than just remove one of the workouts or redistribute the TSS.
Might be intentional behaviour but does seem odd?
For now sticking with all recommendations as in no hurry to progress. Already my thursday 1 hour workout has been adapted to 1:15 based upon my first tuesday which seems promising and excited to see how the plan develops.
I don’t know if this constitutes as a bug, but when generating my plan with my A race on a Wednesday, the rest of that week is empty and I get a full recovery week the next week.
The easy customisation of plans for days and hours has got me wondering about the best use of time. LV used to be 60 to 90 minutes 3 days a week which was manageable and left 2 days for adult stuff like studying, chores and other non-fun stuff. Now that we can customise the days and lengths, I was thinking about the best use of time.
5 days of 45 mins leaves good time after for food and stuff.
Or
3 days of 75 mins leaving two full evenings free.
Clearly, if you could do longer and more often you’d improve even more but sadly there’s finite hours in the week. Plus I want to leave weekends free for the fun rides that training enables. Both, at the figures assumed, are the same total just different approaches.
My times were just an example, main point is more shorter workouts or fewer long ones to make best use of time.
Using the new PB, what settings do I need to tweak to get more base? I was playing around with my plan and deleted it, but now can’t get back to what I had before. Ideally I’d like 12 weeks of base (Master’s General Base I-III), 8 weeks of build, and 4 weeks of specialty. All of my attempts are giving me 8-8-8, instead of 12-8-4.
Yes, I could drop individual training plans on my calendar but there does not appear to be a way to customize the training days, and durations beyond the pre-established ones. Thanks!!
PBV2 has only been released to the web, while it is in Beta. You shoud be able to edit your Training Plan (customise training days and durations) from the website though?
Head to the start date of your Training Plan and click on the annotation. That should pull up the option to Edit or Delete your Training Plan. Let me know if you are having any trouble with that!
Hi there, currently on a low volume masters plan. Saturdays and sundays for me are always unstructured MTB trail rides or solo road spins. So I do all my Trainerroad stuff monday to friday. Is it worth changing my existing plan which is working really well for me?
So I am currently allocated 6 hours total across 5 workouts under the “General Fitness” plan set to “Balanced” and 7 months.
Few questions on this for any TR support peeps on the thread.
Is this plan the “Rolling Road Race” plan under a different name?
Is the plan capped at 6 hours for the duration of the 7 months? Adaptions will never impact volume? There was a chat about a monthly check-in, does this only impact AIFTP / PL?
I am allocated a 1.5 hour threshold workout on the saturday (93tss) if I swap out for a group ride anything above 1.5 hours will trigger a warning. In the real world a group ride would always be 3 hours min and about 160 tss for me (wouldn’t regard them as hard). I know I can just ignore the warning and swap out the workout but is AI / ML saying I should just match the TSS on my group ride? (which would mean I need to turn around @45 mins and go home before I get a turn on the front potentially :).
My plan initially had 60 min workouts which were adapted to 75 mins which led me to believe volume was adapting but possibly only to maximum the plan allows.
I regularly do long rides at the weekend which makes me wonder about the 90 min workouts I have been allocated at the weekend and the ability to increase time over the 7 month plan.
I’m really digging this new feature. Kudos to the TrainerRoad team!
The custom training plan I’m doing is General Fitness → Road → Building Endurance (3 months). I found that the AT adjustments after completion of a successful workout results in the next recommended workout to be a much lower PL increase than in the past. For example, when I successfully complete a Sweet Spot workout (rated Moderate or Hard), the next workout seems to always be 0.2 higher. In the past, AT would usually recommend the next workout to be around 0.5 higher. Is this the result of my Building Endurance goal? In other words, does Building Endurance intentionally progress your PLs slower than the other goals, such as Increasing FTP for example?
Adjusting my training approach from Balanced to Demanding doesn’t seem to impact this.
To be clear - I have no issue with slower PL progressions as I have the agency to swap in a harder workout if I so desire ;). Just curious!
I’m one of those people who has been in a situation of having fewer available training days, but more time to train on those days. My solution was to sub for longer workouts at similar progression levels. And a lot of 
runs for joint integrity. (“Might as well do a run too whilst I’m all sweaty”, etc.) It would be nice if the plan could take care of this multidimensionally: durations independent from number of days.
