Does workout difficulty adjust to manual changes in intensity?

[bbarrera]

@mattodriscoll

I had Birling -3 on the calendar, and I did the first interval at the recommended intensity, which wasn’t enough, so increased the intensity throughout the intervals until I reached 125% for the last one.

I played around with Birling -1 and saw these Workout Levels:

• 5.8 level for TR’s Birling -1 which has 4x30-sec sprints and each sprint is 225% FTP for 20 seconds, and then 10 seconds decreasing from 225% to 30%
• 5.9 level if I use WorkoutCreator to make a copy of Birling -1
• 56.3 level if I use WorkoutCreator to increase the intensity by 133% (taking the 225% portion up to 300%)

some details here:

Custom Workouts Get Progression Score - Very Cool

and on the other hand using WorkoutCreator to make a copy may give good results like simply making a copy. However PLs of sprint workouts in TR can be a little wacky because % FTP of the custom workout is taken into consideration: [image] even though the workout text states: [image] so if you create a custom workout and bump % FTP of a sprint to accurately reflect your % FTP, and its greater or less than (an equivalent) TR workout, you end up with a custom workout PL that is skewed relativ…

Quoting the workout description: “Each sprint is intended to be a maximal effort, so adjust the Intensity appropriately in order to barely finish each 30-second effort.”

I’d suggest doing the sprints in resistance mode, in order to do them at max effort, instead of playing around with intensity in Erg mode.