Get trainerroad to ignore gym days?

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Anyone know if there’s a way to either get trainerroad to ignore my 2-3 days week in the gym? I only do upper body on those days (light weight, higher reps and core). TR always wants to adapt my training after these days, but I’ve got to imagine it thinks I’m doing legs, when I’m not. My garmin workouts are only logged as “strength”.

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Delete them.

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You shouldn’t have to hide workouts from trainerroad though. Seems unwise to deliberately remove information that their ai is using.

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But that’s literally the title of the post.

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I’ve just taken to lying to the new AI bot. As soon as I enter my actual strength training it turns all my workouts to endurance. I just played around with it until it gave me some adaptation for the strength workouts but didn’t go all the way. This seemed to be around the 12 set mark. I’m nearly 50 so the strength training is none negotiable, I get plenty of rest days due to family commitments and I’ve been strength training for years so it works for me. Just annoying the program can’t handle the truth!

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Well, I just deleted all my 2 day’s a week of strength training from my calendar. I just couldn’t deal with the adaptations and yellow days popping up due to a 30-45 minute gym session.

I’m sure support or more expereienced users will give you a better answer on how to keep them integrated in TR, but it was driving me crazy and I’m just tracking my gym sessions on good old paper and pencil in a notebook.

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You should only add those working sets to your strength training inside of TR that has working sets “going to failure or within 1-2 reps of failure”.

Especially with doing only upper body and light weights I wouldn’t bother importing those into TR as the impact on your cycling training should be negligible.

https://support.trainerroad.com/hc/en-us/articles/25384601883547-How-to-Add-Working-Sets-to-your-Strength-Training

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I don’t log gym session because they are fairly easy and I’ve been doing them for decades. I also spend a few hours a week moving furniture, and I don’t log that either. I figure that the AI will get to know your regular fatigue levels. People have all different levels of regular activity through their jobs and lifestyles.

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Hey @dravenwa!

The only Red/Yellow days I am seeing on your Calendar are triggered by rides, not your Strength Training. Maybe you’re confusing your Strength workouts making your days Red or Yellow because you are completing them in Yellow/Red Days?

More info here: What is TrainerRoad AI’s Fatigue Detection?

If you are tracking them as upper body, then the system should not mistake them as lower :slight_smile:

Here is more info on how to properly track them: httpHow to Add Working Sets to your Strength Training

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I’ve just started to lie. Instead of putting in the actual number of sets, I just put in the number of exercises. Otherwise I get what OP is talking about.

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To clarify, it doesn’t necessarily give me a yellow or red day, it just decreases the difficulty of the upcoming workout frequently once I’ve uploaded my strength workout. Sometimes significantly

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@dravenwa I’m pretty sure that TR assumes you’re doing workouts to failure, which is not how you describe your workouts. FWIW, I also lift only upper body using higher reps, lower weight, etc. I do not enter these into TR. I use TrainingPeaks / Intervals.icu for scheduling all of my activities, but only input runs or anything else that would affect my rides into TR.

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Oh! This may be something complete different then :slight_smile:

Can you point me to a specific workout where this happens? Maybe there is confusion on how TR prescribes workouts or planned Recovery Weeks, from what I am looking at your Calendar.

TrainerRoad now looks beyond just Workout Levels, factoring in your fitness, recent training, and overall trends to pick the right workout for you that day.

When a workout looks different from what you might expect based on past recommendations, it’s reflecting a broader view of your current fitness and capabilities.

Think of your training like climbing a staircase. The goal is to keep moving upward—but not every step needs to be taller than the last. TrainerRoad adjusts the step size based on what you’ve been doing lately, so you can keep progressing in a way that supports consistency and long-term growth. So maybe this is what’s actually going on :slight_smile: