Yeah, I can understand that. I’ll share your feedback with the team.
I’d recommend batching the options together if you’re unsure.
Nutrition, Sleep, Sick, Injured, and Stress/Motivation should fall into one bucket. You’ll likely know if you’re sick, injured, or particularly stressed out/feeling unmotivated. If you had a particularly bad night’s sleep, that could contribute to poor performance as well, and the same goes if you know you missed some nutrition throughout the day and felt a bit flat/empty because of it.
The second bucket might be a bit tougher to narrow down for some. Intensity and Training Fatigue can sometimes feel similar. For me, the delineation is based on how I felt going into the workout. If I felt strong and the workout just killed me, then I’d say intensity was the reason. If, however, I’d been feeling more tired, sore, and weak from a long week/month of training (maybe I’m almost due for a rest week), then training fatigue is likely the reason for my poor performance.
I think getting your answer into the right bucket is a good first step, then getting more specific helps if you can.
I think on workouts where I reduce the intensity by small amounts and TR marks the workout as successfully completed I will continue to give my survey response RPE as though I haven’t tweaked my intensity.
Looking back on the last few months this approach has given me good progressive increase in workout intensity. FYI , I’m using the Short Power Build - Low volume plan which is giving me a steady increase in FTP despite my age (I am 60 in January).
10h+ a week. The whole low volume thing is such cope, it doesn’t take a scientist to realize that if you have more training volume you will have a stronger stimulus and from that receive a stronger adaptation. This week for me is probs gonna be around 30 hours which is for sure on the high side, screenshot is from Wednesday. Threshold is about 6W/Kg and volume is on the high side but if you do the sport and care about it enough to post about it asking for help then why not at least do the first principles.
I fundamentally disagree with your point of view here.
I agree with you that you can only use intensity as a substitution for volume for so long - and a plateau will obviously be reached much much earlier on a LV plan.
However, some people only have enough time for a low volume plan and I fully stand by my point that decent progress can be made on a LV plan.
It’s totally believable that someone could go from 3w/kg to 4w/kg on a LV plan for example - I’d call that decent progress.
Loads of people on here are happy to get to where they can be based on the genetics they were given, the time they have to train, and how much they are willing to sacrifice everything else in their life…. you seem to think there is only any point training at all if you are planning to get above 4.5w/kg? I think that’s wrong.
LV plans definitely are not a waste of time.
Even for these people when they are just starting out
