I was wondering if anyone could give some insight into training days and restructuring them for the best adaptations from the work done?
Current training is Tuesday sweet spot 90-105 min, Thursday sweet spot 90-105 min, Saturday threshold 75-90 min, Sunday dynamic endurance 90 min. Saturday threshold is doable but hard, as the AI training model predicted. My question is, would doing the threshold on Tuesday, followed by a Thursday and Saturday sweet spot, and Sunday endurance be better? currently I seem to be better with the sweet spot workouts, as in they are less challenging or stressful overall. I was interested in gaining more “top end” Current sweet spot workouts are rated around 8.0, and threshold is around 4.8. Current FTP 342 weight 170lbs. Or is doing the two sweet spot workouts followed by Saturday threshold better since I am carrying some fatigue into the “hardest” workout of the week?
When I was sandboxing with a masters base phase (one SS, one Threshold) it reduced my FTP Prediction if I swapped them round and put the Threshold earlier in the week. I’m none the wiser why this happens, but it does.
If you’re the type of person who’s happy to take things on faith, there’s your answer.
I’m the type of person who sees that, thinks “I’m only doing two workouts a week", and changes the Sweetspot to Threshold to see what happens*.
Theoretically it is possible AI based this adjustment on group level statistics like “athletes are less likely to skip workout during weekends than workdays” that does not apply to individuals
Physiologically you have aerobic and anaerobic systems, you are focussed on training the aerobic at the moment which is usually the best idea. A build phase later would usually include vo2 work.
Sprints will develop your anaerobic power.
This is kind of what the AI is for, it understands millions of rides and when things progress and when they don’t.
I don’t believe the AI thinks about the structure. Humans create the larger macro plan. Then the AI goes and picks the best workout for each day. It though is only optimizing looking back as far as I know - can @Jonathan or @Nate_Pearson confirm?
It will know to lower your workout intensity if you are slightly fatigued, but I don’t believe it has any input as to when your next hard workout is. If it does that would be awesome.
Just go into the plan and swap them and see what happens to the Predicted FTP. If you don’t like the result, swap them back. Should only take a minute. One of the things I love about the new functionality.
Hey Lactic, you didn’t quote my last sentence, which is giving the impression that I think the structure is AI generated. I recommended the user change the plan type.
