There is not. You start fresh.
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Think it does look at previous rides to form a baseline. It had an estimated FTP and level for me when i joined that was on par with what i expected.
Interesting. I cant quite tell, but it seems the system has put in a recovery week of sorts with a bit of intensity for this week.
If you go to the training screen and click on “your plan”, you can see how many hours it has planned per week. This will adjust with your availability inputs.
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Same thing happened with me and my first week was like a recovery week and then it slowly ramps things up.
You have to be very honest with how your planned group rides are going to feel when/ if you schedule them.
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What others have said, it starts slow and ramps up as it gets to know you, my second plan didn’t suffer from this (if suffer is the right word), just seems to take a week or so to get to know you
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Sounds good. Based on what people are saying, this is probably what I need right now anyway.
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From what I’ve read - I’d say so too. I’ve had great gains this season by having 1 or 2 intensity days per week and just riding endurance the remaining 3 days (I always take 2 complete days off per week where I’m only lightly active). Much greater gains than I’ve had last season following TR’s SS plans doing a lot more random intensity (but a lot lower overall volume).
Of course it all depends on you and where you’re at in your training, but from what I’ve read I’d start by trying less intensity before adding on even more.
Think the important detail here is that you need to do more volume. Going from 5h intensity to 5h endurance will not help your fitness. (Apart from making you feel more fresh, but only in the beginning.)
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Yea for sure.
For reference…typically most non-rest weeks I’m at about 5-6 hrs intensity, 3-4 hrs endurance.
Whoa. Kudos to you for not burning out on that! If I tried that I’d either get sick within weeks or just lose my motivation to train, esp. if numbers aren’t going up anymore…
When only counting time in any zone above Z3 I’m at 2 hours per week, tops. Less than 1 hour if I’m doing a VO2Max block.
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Well to be clear…that’s not 5-6 hrs time in zone lol! That’s like a hard 3hr group ride, plus say two 1 hr TR interval workouts.
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I ‘joined’ yesterday on the 2 week trial, to see how it deals with an existing plan. Forgot to switch the workout to last night’s group ride. After the ride I opened Join and it had already synced the ride from Garmin.
Played around for 5-10 minutes tapping everything, and post-ride I wasn’t able to swap the suggested workout for a Planned ride. Eventually I figured out how to mark it as Skipped - Did something else:
Does that seem right? Didn’t see any other way, after doing the ride while the Join app was expecting me to do a workout.
Looking ahead, I’ve swapped out the Sat and Wed workouts for Planned rides.
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Yes, that’s how you do it for current or past day.
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Oh, or zero out your time on the day of. Can’t do that for the past though, no time travel.
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After setting up Join in the morning, I had already swapped out Saturday and next Wednesday. Just forgot to do it pre-ride for yesterday/Wed.
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I have to say, this app is interesting, and very informative.
For example…scheduling a 3 hr zone 2 ride on sunday results in a VO2 day monday.
Change it to 4 hrs zone two Sunday, and Join gives 2 days off Mon-Tue.
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What will be interesting is if it learns. So do a few 3 hour rides and then a 4 once it knows you’re cool with 3s. Will it then give you a ride after the 4? Or will it still give you 2 days off?
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Yea for sure. This is the sort of thing that for me at least, has been grossly missing with trainerroad.
Incan look at any TR workout and know with like 90% certainty whether I can complete it or not…I dont need progression levels…I could do that myself.
Now, what I DON’T know is whether actually doing a workout on a given day is dumb/counterproductive or not.
Me too, I also like knowing in the back of my mind if I skip a workout whether sleeping like crap or lack of motivation, etc. The whole plan will adjust my week appropriately and not just the following week workout from the day I missed.