I’m currently following the SSB Low Volume training plan. I chose the low volume plan mainly because it is the first time I’m following a structured plan, the first time I’m training indoors and I was unsure how much time I could really dedicate to training. So far, I’m happy. Once or twice a week …

Thanks @KatherineT and @EtienneXplore , those are good workarounds! @EtienneXplore , on the filtering: that’s what I was hoping that the system would do by itself so I don’t have to worry about picking the wrong workout. It seems quite tricky to not overload yourself by doing hard workouts back to ba…

[image] tigloo: that’s what I was hoping that the system would do by itself How would the system choose that? Precisely, how would you expect it to know “what you want”?

[image] KatherineT: To achieve the same, but the other way round, I signed up to the SSB Mid Vol and intend to skip a workout on alternate weeks when i’m travelling. Not ideal, but easier than (as a newbie) finding the right workout from the library of a gazillion workouts. The first one to g…

It’s not “what you want” that is important but “what won’t get in the way of your plan”.

[image] tigloo: It seems quite tricky to not overload yourself by doing hard workouts back to back and then also get the right training impulse. If you’re currently on low vol and want some more training stimulus go look through the Trad Base Low Vol program and grab any of the workouts from …

[image] ErickVH: It’s not “what you want” that is important but “what won’t get in the way of your plan”. Or compliment the plan. As a training n00b myself, I would have no clue what I should or shouldn’t be doing!

This is sort of what I do. I’ve found that I sit somewhere right in between the Low and Mid Volume Half Distance triathlon plans. The low volume leaves me wanting for more sometimes and the mid volume gets to be too much sometimes. So I just put the Mid Volume plans on the Calendar and cut or reduce…

It’s like @Crownan and @ErickVH mentioned - I know that I want to get faster but I don’t know HOW to do that. That’s why I’m here - Coach Chad will get me there. I don’t have him for real but he does the virtual whiplashing on me. Now, once or twice a week I’d like to call him and say “do more whip…

I also went with the mid volume plan and adjust by skipping or removing workouts. Works well for me.

The easiest way to “add more” is simply either choose the plus (+) variations of any workout when you have more time or want more intensity (sometimes it’s both). If you want to “add” and entire workout, look at the next higher level training plan to the one you are on, and pick something from …

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mcneese.chad November 7, 2018, 7:48pm 20

“Very simple” is part of the problem, based on comments I have read about Xert. It falls well short of working as intended unless you follow the prescribed use closely. This stuff all has to be “rules” based in order to make any predictions. That imposes a real limitation as to the use and effectiveness of any “automatic” training tool.

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