I have a recovery week coming up and the system has me doing James, a 90 minute 74% of FTP sustained effort, in the middle of the week. This is unusual compared to how recovery weeks have been structured previously, where typically only sub 2 WL workouts were prescribed. Does my recovery week look correct to you?
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I think this could be the interface. Doesn’t change your an easier one if you go to career page then back to calendar. I’ve had it when scheduling a workout. It shows the hardest of that workout type in the calendar then it switches once I go to career and back to calendar.
That’s consistent with what my recovery weeks look like now. The planned workouts used to be much easier and duration would be shortened some. I’m wrapping up a recovery week now and manually replaced every one of my scheduled workouts for the week.
One of the recent podcasts talked about them changing their philosophy on recovery weeks and including higher intensity.
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Good, skipping intensity completely and not just reducing it is leaving gains on the table.
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I’m good with a bit more TSS than they’d prescribed previously but I’d have gone into z3 heartrate every workout if I stuck with their plan. Doesn’t feel like a recovery week if I’m doing that.
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I believe it was mentioned somewhere (might have been the beta-thread) that what formerly was a recovery week is now more of an endurance week. No higher zone workouts, just endurance. But not so low in intensity that you’d call it a recovery ride. If those are too hard and you “tell the AI” about it, it should downscale the intensity to match your current capacity better.
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@Boysey95 I tried to back and forth between career and calender page, no interface issue, James is still there.
I do not listen in on the podcast so this is news to me that they changed approach to an endurance focues week over pure recovery. Should I be concerned that the system pushes me into yellow during this week?
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What does a normal week look for you volume/tss wise?
I’d only be concerned if you were getting red days. Yellow just means keep it to endurance on that day.
Think of it as a deload week vs a recovery week. The stress is coming down, not completely going away. I think some gains were being lost with the previous recovery weeks.
I think this is an individual thing. I’m a person who wants their endurance work to be on the easier side (.65 or below) and feel that a lot of the TR Endurance rides are too difficult. There are also a lot of people who think a lot of the TR Endurance rides are too easy though. To me this is something you just have to experiment with and find what works best for you personally.
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Trainerroad has always emphasized the importance of recovery weeks. Example - The Complete Recovery Week Guide for Cyclists
If the thought process has changed, I wish that information and rationale would be made more clear. TR has always tried to take a science-based approach so I would assume there is new information driving this change if it is indeed intentional.
I just re-listened to the beginnings of the past 2 podcasts and did not pick up on a recovery week topic. And if staff posted it as a forum response, that is buried and unlikely to be seen by anyone couple hours down the road.
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My typical week ranges from 275 to 375 TSS depending on where in the TR cycle I am and available time to spend on cycling. The upcoming week has me doing 147 TSS, all endurance.
I agree with Bnar that any changes like this should have been made readily available to the customers.
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Looking at the recovery weeks in my new plan they’ve upped the Endurance intensity of two workouts and dropped the middle workout.