There won’t be any effect on AI FTP Detections. It looks at all of your training — indoors, outdoors, structured, and unstructured — to understand your fitness and detect your FTP. Our system looks at your personal biometrics and the unique details of your recent and past cycling data to detect your FTP without the need for maximal efforts or specific workouts.
As @aydraper said – the work you do in the plan (and your ability to recover from that work) will ultimately be what will drive your FTP gains.
Moving up from my typical low volume training to mid volume masters this season. I’m focusing on endurance events next year, so feels like a great option.
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I am not sure if this is a known bug and is target to be fixed but I noticed in my current block that it does not enforce the custom durations set for my HV polarized plan:
@patricksudol@ZackeryWeimer This is the same on mine, the workout durations seem selectable for standard plans in the android app, but they don’t stick once selected. It seems customising the durations only works for custom plans.
I was thinking in “standard mode” where you could just pedal in the gear you want til you are done (and then get the “end workout” pop up)… but for erg mode that would be awesome. Maybe instead of an “extend cool down” button one that says “start cool down” timer of 5 min?
I did a podcast today about some of things we’re doing and why. I’ll show more data about AT in future podcast. With AT, the plans are pretty organic and are static. I wonder how many plan combos we could have…I bet it’s something like more than the atoms in the universe.
Exciting stuff @Nate_Pearson ! Love the new calendar. Wondering if I’m going to regret that I just bought another year of TP! The new Plan Builder ideas are great too. Also can’t wait for red light/green light and for it to incorporate with adaptive training.
For future ideas, I know we already have like 5,000 workouts available, but could we get a few that are various length endurance rides that don’t have warm ups or cool downs so that, for example, we could do a 30 minute ride at .65, an hour of intensive intervals, and then a 30 minute cooldown at .6, but without warmup and cooldown on all 3 rides?
There is currently no 30 minute Z2 ride available that doesn’t have a structured warmup and/or very low IF cooldown. They say they’re .65, but that’s because they have a .5 warmup and cooldown with 20 mins at .75 (or whatever) in the middle.
Let’s assume, as others have stated, that extending at least one endurance ride gives you additional benefit over general endurance volume. I would then question the need for your back-to-back 4hr rides in Week B option.
Recovery from one 4hr ride to another may be problematic and may potentially extend into Tuesday. You also end up with a very polarised week - 2/3 of your volume in two days. Why do 2x4hrs if the adaptations come from the 4hrs vs 2hrs i.e. let’s assume one longer ride will give you most of the benefit of extending? Perhaps back to back long rides are important specificity for you? Otherwise/Instead, you could do 4hr/2hr and distribute the remainder over Tues+Thurs? Your recovery might be better served by this.
Nice idea!