Does anyone actually ever use the All Out or Max effort survey option? I don’t like that it asks me why it was “too hard”. Too hard would mean I didn’t finish or I had to modify the efforts to finish. I find it especially odd when I’m rating my effort in a race. Last week I got the worst Track Hack …

I’ve wondered this. This helped me: How to Rate Your Effort Easy This ride felt easy and non-taxing, requiring little effort or focus. You could repeat the ride and pass it without issue. Moderate This ride was somewhat comfortable but required some focus to complete. You felt a little challeng…

[image] ellsworth81: The Ai will figure out how you respond. Any idea how that works? If I do an workout in ERG mode exactly as prescribed, how does it know if it was easy or hard for me and then decide on adaptations?

When you tell it that that ride was a walk in the park or whether you almost died. :grinning_face:

[image] How much does RPE at the end of a workout effect AI adaptations? TrainerRoad Software How much does RPE at the end of a workout effect AI adaptations? The reason I ask, is because when I do “heat training” with easy endurance workouts, the RPE is HARD and sometime…

IMO, these definitions should be on the screen where you check off the option at the end of a workout. On the phone app you can tap and display the definitions, but not in the PC app. I printed this out and keep it on my trainer desk for reference. FWIW: I posted similar TR guidance which is bas…

That’s basically how i’ve always envisioned the breakdown, I’ve just found the “too hard” questions after a 5 odd. To me, “too hard” means I would have failed. If I finished the workout as prescribed then it wasn’t “too hard”. If I’m dialing back the intensity, or skipping bits, extending a rest val…

I find that I can throw in some backpedals without getting called out, so I use All Out for those times.

I guess my confusion/frustration comes from the “too hard” questions at the end. If I finished a workout without modifying it in any way, then it wasn’t too hard. Too hard would be skipping an interval or lowering the intensity on the last set or something, and when we do that, the program detects t…

If i back pedal but don’t extend the rest intervals, I consider that Very Hard. Maybe if i’m doing the whole rest period without pedalling forward, but if it’s just the first few seconds after the efforts, that’s Very Hard to me.

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Reecey May 19, 2025, 1:21pm 12

This has been shared on here previously and I found it a huge help when using Trainerroad
Very similar to Saddlesaur’s post above whose post includes a little more detail.

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