Big tease from Nate in the latest podcast on a new dynamic volume feature that’s in final testing. This will be very cool!
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Always low or whatever they want to call it for me. 1-2 hard sessions a week and fill the rest with zone 2 as time and motivation allows.
But I’ve never considered choosing high volume.
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That’s exciting. Will be a really big improvement. 
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I tried high and mid. I went back to the “low plus” approach you’ve described. It works better for me for soooo many reasons.
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Maybe 8 years ago when I was still doing triathlon I followed a mid volume TR half Ironman plan and burned out on the intensity late in the plan. This was before I was more in tune with understanding my recovery needs and before I better understood signs I needed to dial things back.
I definitely error on the side of less volume. And I think for my goals and motivation lower volume is the way to go. And then I can add on running, easy rides, rowing when I’m motivated
The feature I’d really like to see added is the ability to pick a TSS weekly ramp-rate by phase for base & build. I know from previous experience that if I ramp the week over week TSS too quickly, I end up crashing and burning. So my ideal plan builder would allow me to specify:
- the max total number of hours I can ride weekly, with the ability to vary this by month
- the max daily duration (e.g., Tue: 1:30, Wed: 2:00, Thu: 1:00, etc.)
- Weekly TSS ramp rate
- Besides adding in events, vacation, time-off, etc. And if I don’t have events, I should be able to input a focus like FTP, short power (2 - 8 minute), etc. that plan builder would use instead of the event
And then Plan Builder would spit out a custom plan taking all of the above into account
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That would be amazing!
This does sound really, really good. If I understood correctly, Nate also said that it’s not just based on your recent load, it’s based on what training load got you fast in the past. That’s a huge gap with really any other system now. You’d hope one of the benefits of having all that historical data is that a system could make correlations about what training works for you, and sounds like this might be a step in that direction.
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