I had the same annoying experience with accounts. I started an account for a trial, then another with a different email. When I went back to pay for the initial one, it was locked, then back and forth on unlocking it, and it still didnāt work. They were trying to manually manage it all, and Iām not really sure what the risk theyāre trying to mitigate is.
Ok. I signed up again. Iām in the beta version. Here are my observations:
The daily availability feature still buggy, unusable.
I like the format of the workouts, some are pretty dense and demanding, perhaps too much. How about 4m x 9 at 107%.
The workout wizard is fine but it doesnāt always populate.
Last night the website was giving me an error message when trying to download a ERG file.
It would be better if they had a picture of the workout in the calendar instead of the current description.
I get a weird message saying āyour fitness is too high, you wonāt achieve your goal by XXX, switch to a higher volume planāā¦.which is kind of weird.
Like Join, they have low cadence āstrength workoutsā.
Unlike Join, they have a lot more intensity? Which I welcome.
When I look at the weeks ahead, it looks pretty much the same, which looks like a bug.
Intervals have some weird durations some time, like 31 min.
All in all, thereās promise, but in my short experience. Itās not ready for use yet. Maybe is just the Beta version
Overall I like the layout of the week, it ās pretty hardcore, relative to join. One thing they can improve is not to prescribe lifting on the recovery days. Thatās a big No, No
Looking ahead, the following weeks look almost exactly the same. I guess you do have the option of changing the workout in the wizard.
my one and only event is 24 weeks out so I see changes in the variance after a few weeks, each week is structured around, aerobic, Vo2, low cadence, and later sweet spot sessions are added in then later again threshold comes in. The duration and intensity of the session steadily increase.
I havenāt seen adaptions in yet only recommendations to adjust the load if to much is being done earlier in the week.
I found a workaround downloading the file from Strava instead of Garminā¦.so I was able to finally upload the file.
I dropped down my profile to low volume (5-10h), to better reflect what Iām doing, however my suspicion is that optimally Iāll be between low and mid. Iām in the heavy winter season and the breakdown is something like 5-8h bike, 1-3h skin and 1-2h lifting.
The programming changed dramatically, Iād say went from hard to perhaps too easy.
The misterious Suprathreshold session disappeared and a new one āRace Paceā, easy sweet spot appeared.
I might revert to mid volume, I liked the challenge of those workouts, and the extended time in zone.
Ok. Been traveling and training, havenāt had time to upload my workouts and see the adaptation. In general terms, here are my impressions so far:
I struggle with the idea that you do the same 3 workouts for 3 months. I like 30/30ās for vo2, but also longer vo2 intervals.
I like the novelty of working threshold at 107% short 4-5min intervals with 2 mins of rest.
I like the Strenght Endurance workouts.
I like the progression of intensity and density of workouts.
Iāve use this app in conjunction with Join, I have incorporated some elements of Athletica, augmenting the intensity, density of join workouts that sometimes are too easy.
However, I hesitate to even consider Athletica as stand alone app given:
Iām finding after a few weeks in the recommend adoptions are more frequent and some times for variance I swap out the 30/30 HIIT sessions with other Vo2 max workouts I do on a different app.
In my Cycling all-rounder / single day event base 2 mid volume there are aerobic, HIIT, strength endurance, sweet spot, threshold and recovery sessions mix over the upcoming weeks.
I like it takes all non cycling efforts like, S&C, yoga, walking etc. into account when calculating load.
The recovery and resting profile graphs are class taking in all the hrv, rhr, data from garmin watch.
These guys are innovating fast and next up Iām going to try out their Real-Time Workout Reserve they released on Garmin as soon as this freckling weather get better.
Races can now have āGoalsā set ā for the most part free-text fields but also include times as appropriate
Possible to do from Settings / Training as well as through āEdit Sessionā on a race
First step towards closing the loop on the training process as it relates to goal attainment (or not)
āMapsā added to session chart pop-up
Athletica Workout Reserve Garmin App Version: 1.3.9 debugged and working on most devices now. Hereās me working within 15% of my limit (from the past) on repeated 300w efforts. Full explanation here.