It really sounds like TR doesn’t have an internal FAQ / knowledge base for its support team on AT. So there isn’t a common understanding for how AT should work.
I work for a SaaS company, and with every release / introduction of a new product, our product managers do TOIs (transfer of information) & KBs for our support team, so support understands new product / features and correctly and consistently can respond to customer questions / issues.
Something is clearly off for them to not be on that same page. Maybe they didn’t read their TPS reports 
Hmm, just did Tunnabora - Log In to TrainerRoad, should have been tomorrow but decided to do it now. Got the “pass” survey, gave “Easy” as the answer, well because it was. Was spot on with the power figures and was pretty consistent - that road was resurfaced recently and there’s a “join” at the top - I was within two bike lengths of that on each interval.
The Calendar shows -1.7 for Sweet Spot PL but there’s nothing on the workout page linked to.
Support said that new progression logic and new post-workout survey were recently deployed. And support manually set my Wed workout to moderate.
And interestingly I now have progression levels waking up:
and Echo -3 from June 11th is now showing PL updates:
along with PL updates for January/February custom outside workouts (from TP):
No workout scoring starting March 1st as I disabled TP-to-TR workout sync on Feb 27th. Re-enabled on April 27th and workout scores reappear but no PL for custom workouts except those in Jan/Feb. So I suspect that generic outside workout support is getting closer.
This is also a self correcting system to a certain extent. If you say a hard workout is “too easy,” and AT progresses you to the next workout, the chances are higher you will struggle or fail. Once you struggle or fail, it will lower your progression hopefully to where it should be.
If you are sandbagging and saying easy workouts are “too hard” then obviously your progression will stop or go backwards and you only be hurting yourself. Hopefully in your boredom or the easiness of the workouts, you’ll change the way you respond to get the progression going again.
I can confirm, when viewing the ride analysis page, you may see a false decrease in Progression Levels if you completed a ride below your current level. To clarify, completing a ride below your progression level should not actually drop your progression levels.
Those false decreases can be seen on the ride analysis page, but are also displaying on workout cards on the Career and Calendar pages, not just on the Past Ride Details page.
This false decrease display won’t actually change your Progression Levels, and you should still see accurate PLs on your Career page.
We definitely agree, and recognize that misinformation was given out in this scenario. Our team is documenting items daily to educate everyone internally, support team included, on the nuances of Adapting Training, bugs, how to speak to them, and better create consistent messaging for each AT item.
This current report has now been distributed to the team, and feedback like this gives us great examples of where we can continue to improve.
The false Progression Level drops occur on workouts above your current PL also.
Fixing that bug should fix those false progression displays of all kinds. Until then: your Career Page is the best, most accurate place to view your Progression Levels. 
Thanks @IvyAudrain. I’ll log this with support also, but it appears there are now lots of negatives showing on the calendar:
This is happening in both the web-client and also on my Mac.
Yep, that aligns with what we’re showing on athlete’s calendars as false decreases. Ignore those until that fix is released! So sorry for the confusion. 
Does increasing the percentage of a workout from 100% to 115% effect adaptive training at all to do with a larger progression? Or should a person just choose an alternate that has a higher progression if in fact the rider can manage it?
thanks
When I look back through history in my calendar, I see completed workouts labeled achievable, productive, not recommended, etc. Are these labeled in the context of my current fitness, or in context of the fitness AT thinks I had at that time?
In other words, when I see that 3 months back I completed Huxley, which was part of my training plan at the time, but AT now says “not recommended”, is it telling me “the old plan recommended this, but we now know that wasn’t a good idea” or instead “just because you did it then, don’t think you can do it now”?
I’ve been following the AT forum firehose of updates since release, but only got into the beta a few weeks back. I may’ve missed if this has been covered before when I had less context to recognize what was being discussed, so apologies in advance if I’m asking something already answered.
Thanks.
Pretty sure at the moment the best approach is to use Alternates.
From my calendar it appears to be based on your PL at the time of the workout. This is what should be expected I think as well - it makes sense to represent the workout at the time, not what you can do now…
Thanks. I agree that’s what I’d expect, but I could also imagine it as a current-state label applied to everything, so I wasn’t sure and thought I’d ask.
Since I wasn’t in AT at the time, it definitely didn’t set it when I rode it. I can imagine a few ways to test it to try to figure it out, which I may try if no one is able to definitively say one way or another.
I’m very certain from my history that it reflects the PL at the time of the workout. Would be good for somebody else to confirm, but I’m 99% sure that is what is intended.
Doing any ride, particularly an indoor workout, should reward the user, not provide negative feedback by dropping their progression level.
If your threshold PL is 5, and you want to be conservative after time off, and do a workout at 4, completing that workout successfully will end up with a reduced PL.
On the other hand, doing no riding will keep that PL at 5, unless decayed over time. This is classic negative feedback and should be corrected, if possible. But I’m not sure how.
It’s already confirmed as an error, so nothing to worry about. It is just a bug.
Definitely use alternates if you haven’t yet started the workout. If you have started it, imagine you have a strict coach and either
Then you’ll be better prepared for either: the next testing workout; or deserving of the upcoming recovery
I just had something like this happen. Did a stretch Sweet Spot session and the website has me losing 0.5 of a level (marked session as hard). Prior to going in my Sweet Spot level was 3.7, and now it’s 4.9.
Adaptive Training gets more and more bizarre.
Edit - I see it’s now a known bug.
