Generally speaking, if you have have any plan installed on your Calendar, I think itās best to delete it prior to running Plan Builder to make a new / redo of a plan.
Noting that, I am not the PB expert, and there could be different approaches that are better than what I describe.
Power match is part of the TR app that allows you to use a power meter separate from a smart trainer to record and set power targets to control the resistance. So if you were to put your new bike with the power pedals on the trainer, you would pair both the trainer and the power pedals to the app. The app would use the power from the pedals to record your power and the trainer would set resistance based on that power data rather than the power data of the trainer. Below is the TR blog post if what I typed doesnāt make any sense.
I use the same bike on the trainer as I do outdoors, so I use the pedal power everywhere. That keeps my numbers relative to each other.
Hmm ok
Thanks fir the info!!!
Maybe Iām being thick but where is this? Just did a mock plan builder for next year (so blank calendar), it populated the calendar fine, but when I clicked on the āBuild Phaseā annotation it would allow me to change to VOLUME of the build phase, but not the TYPE of build (i.e. General build, sustained build, tri build etc.). Same thing when i clicked on Base phase - lets me change volume but not type of base (i.e. SSB, Tri base etc)
Click on this little chevron and it will open up a drop down menu to pick a different build phase. It should give you this option for the annotation at the beginning of each block. If it doesnāt, you might be best to email support@trainerroad.com for them to take a look.
Thanks for that. It doesnāt seem to be there on the Tri plans (at least not for base or build). However on specialty it allows we to swap between Sprint Tri, Olympic Tri, Half Tri etc.
Be great if could allow swap to SSB and General/Sustained build on Tri plans too!
Depending on how stupid, even consider the folks over at CVRcade. Sorry, was that my outside voiceā¦
Gotcha. I think for build it should still allow you to change between any of the Triathlon build plans, so if it isnāt showing that for you, I would definitely contact support.
That said, Iāll note that my drop down for build does not include any tri plan build options. I suspect this means that changing between the tri and other cycling disciplines isnāt something it is capable of? You should at lease be able to swap between the sprint, olympic, half and full plans in each stage though.
Itās the Kickr that is reading 4.5% low. Xqli set a -4.5% offset on the pedals so that they match the Kickr reading to keep both inside and outside training consistent. They now all read 4.5% too low.
Correct. I did a week of workouts where I coupled the pedals with me GPS and I noticed that on average the pedals read 4,5% higher than the Kickr.
Iāll have to now do the same for the 4iiii one on the gravel bike.
DC Rainmaker has a nice tool. But if you want a free one you can also use the Zwiftpower dual recording one to analyse your files.
Thanks. I will check out dcās analyzer.
I watched the launch podcast again yesterday while training, and you referred to the aerobic (endurance) TrainNow recommendations including endurance and tempo workouts, so I might get tempo recommendations yet!
Thanks Chad. Thatās what figured out after trading some email with your always awesome support folks.
Just thought Iād share an experience with the workout ratings (Iām not really doing a plan at the moment so Iām not taking full advantage of the adaptive training).
Last week I did two vo2 workouts, Bluebell (3 blocks of 6x1min at 120%) and on Wed I did a custom one where it was 4 blocks of 3x90sec at 120%). Bluebell is rated 4.5 and my custom one obviously isnāt rated yet. This past Tuesday I did Dade -1, which is 3 sets of 3x2min @ 120% and rated 6.3, so considered a stretch. I may have been having a bad day but I struggled through that one. Today, I did Monadnock -2, rated a 5.1 (and āproductiveā) for me and I nailed it, the last interval was tough though. It may be a combo of potentially being more physically ready today and psychological by believing a workout is productive and not a stretch, but Iām optimistic of using progressions as a tool to select workouts to gradually challenge me.
I had Dade +4 on my plan last week and failed it hard. If Dade -1 is a 6.3, then the one I did must have been quite high and far above my progression. Iām actually so beat from work this week (full gas all day with failing sleep each night) that Iām skipping todayās workout which would have progressed beyond Dade +4.
I guess what Iām saying is that Iām looking forward to having access to the workout scores so I can get something that actually fits my current VO2 progression level. Itās been my weakest area for a while now and Iāve not found a good TR plan to address that weakness for me.
Joe is correct.
We donāt have anything in the system to take into account power meters that are a few percent off. I would use your power meter inside while on your kickr.
This is our experience too. A ā2.0ā point jump can feel like a lot. But right around the 1.0 jump is hard but doable depending on recovery state and fueling.
Duuuuuuude. You must do this.
But 10K bike. Just sayingā¦
hi all, long time reader first time poster.
Will AT essentially build a model of the athleteās ftp with respect to the ramp test? Ramp tests set the FTP as 75% of the final minuteās power but we know that each athleteās true (lab based or 1 hour test) ftp will be somewhere between 0.72 and 0.78 of that final minute.
As an example myself and some friends have been doing group TR ramp tests and workouts. Whereas I find subsequent threshold workouts relatively comfortable, my friend can really smash the ramp test (he keeps going for 1-2 mins after Iāve stopped) but then finds sweetspot/threshold workouts difficult to complete. Iām guessing that my threshold is well estimated at 0.75 of the last minute of the ramp test, whereas my friendās ftp is probably closer to 0.72 of the last minute of the ramp test.
Will AT essentially estimate this parameter out for us, set workouts appropriately, and crucially give more accurate estimates of ftp than just 0.75 of the last minute of the ramp test?
