Combined training with trainerroad and muscle training

Training
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As a 70 year old I have a high emphasis on building muscle to enhance longevity. I’ve been doing mostly kettlebell and heavy club training. Several months ago I added in stationary bike to add zone 2 and HIIT training. However, I’ve been having a hard time setting up programs in TR to use on a regular weekly basis. It seems like I need to continually go in and select rides and hope the steps are sufficient to get me in to zone 2 and not push my HR to high. Also, if I end up with a ride that ends up pushing me out of Z2 I don’t see any way of reducing the programmed effort in the middle of the ride

Any suggestions on handling this would be appreciated.

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If you’re looking to only do rides at zone 2 or below, you’ll have to either add a Traditional Base phase to your training plan, which can be found here [click], or you could use AI Workouts to pick an appropriate endurance workout for you each day you’d like to train.

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You’d want to delete your current training plan first since you won’t be using that any more, though.

Let me know if this helps!

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I’d like to do one HIIT 4x4 per week and 2-3 zone 2, depending on state of recovery. My kettlebell work typically gets me into zone 4-5 based on which exercise I’m doing so recovery is no joke.

Joel Young

4

Honestly, why do you want or need TR to do this if you aren’t going to let TR train you?

You can control a trainer with most head untis (Garmin/Wahoo/etc) or the app that comes with the trainer.

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Being new to TR that is part of my question. It would be useful to have TR automatically progran my schedule, but I’d like to have it do it within my goal parameters. Perhaps I chose the wrong application to meet my goals.