I’m sure this has been asked a thousand times, but I don’t seem to be able to dig out the answer, so here goes:
If I’m scheduled say a 3x20 tempo workout with 15minutes warmup, 15 min cool down and 5min rest in between sets and I decide to do it outdoors, but my terrain features say
Well, outdoor workouts currently are in a gray area of support to begin with so it may or may not provide credit to your levels. That said, part of the deal with outdoor workouts is in selecting a route that will give your the best opportunity to completing the intervals as intended. Business park loops work great if you’ve got them and longer climbs for repeats are good for those with that kind of terrain. For folks in punchy areas, it takes a little more thought and planning to find something that isn’t too pitchy.
So basically, if you’re not overly concerned with hitting the interval lengths exactly, just go out and mimic what you can. If you want the precision, consider altering your route to compensate.
Apologies if this has been addressed already.
I just did a ramp test and got a 1 watt increase (seriously! 260=>261) - My levels dropped (-1?) but ideally I should have been able to accept the FTP increase, by deny the update in levels. Any thoughts to offer that functionality? Of course, I will just ignore the new level recommendations and manually select workouts (based on my previous benchmarks, and knowing what the delta is for a progressive workout etc.) until the AT catches up - Thanks !
Has the decay issue not been fixed? I got a bump to SS 4.2 2 weeks ago now down to 3.3. I have not taken 2 weeks completely off but just haven’t been doing sweet spot work, but I’ve been riding outside (I know this doesn’t impact levels) and doing other work.
It seems like with current decay rates if you’re not doing every ride to try and maintain certain levels, they will never be accurate and as a result the difficulty ratings become useless.
AT should be able to recognize time off the bike from time off training specific zones and not decay levels (or at least not as quickly) for someone who is riding/training but not in that zone vs someone who simply takes a break in general
By most/all accounts to date, the +2% is unlikely to have any effect on how AT assessed your workout, ie. no extra recognition for the additional couple of percent work performed.
The “Stretch” Difficulty Level that you’ve seen assigned to your completed workout is very likely to be the known UI bug that affects the mobile apps. Are you seeing this in the mobile app? Look instead at the web Calendar and chances are you’ll see the correct “Achievable” Difficulty Level displayed for your completed workout.
Another vlog from me, finished short power build HV. Interest for these vlogs isn’t super high but I’ll keep making them until the end of CX specialty just so we have a record of an entire base-build-specialty cycle. Definitely feeling ready for CX based on recent workouts
Did another polarized workout and all good. Marked as easy and then logged back in.
@IvyAudrain not sure if possible but in the ios beta app when I get this screen can you all make it so I can click on the workout before accepting/declining?? Currently I am searching for the workout and then going back.
Yes that would be awesome. I am doing that by clicking back and searching for the workout. IE; how long it is mainly vs what is there now and what the targets look like by sliding across the workout.
In this example ochoco was 2:30 and 120 tss while inscription is 3:00 and 120 tss. Had to look back.
I think I can do this easily with my computer but don’t always have it.
For what it is worth, I also love the idea behind having more workout details, particularly duration as I do mine during lunch and need to manage my time during the work week.
I’ve been getting adaptations for both Plan Builder workouts that I moved (i.e. dragged to another day on the calendar), and Plan Builder workouts that I moved and then replaced with alternates, for a few weeks at this point.
We don’t have an AT/calendar changelog, so
it’s hard to keep track of which bugs are still bugs, and
it’s impossible to know if you’re in a staged rollout for functionality or bugfixes, and
it’s easy for any set of behaviors to become How AT Works According to Forum Wisdom™.
No matter what we’re all saying here as far as what works and what doesn’t, the only source of truth for how AT works in your TR account right now is your TR account, right now.
I’m sure this has been asked but I can’t seem to find the answer. If my AT plan has a workout scheduled for tomorrow that I want to do today, how do I move the workout to today without breaking the workout’s link to AT? Or if I have a workout scheduled three or four days out that I want to today, how do I do that?
Just move it to today. It will still provide credit to levels. The break only refers to it no longer being eligible for adaptations based on other workouts, so if you’re moving it up, it’s already had all the opportunities it had to adapt.