@ming @SeanHurley I also get the HTTP 500 error like @BoTreats @martinbanshee. Is there a workaround?
Me too, when I leave it for a couple of hours it just goes to the set up training plan page.
Sorry, so is it custom plans only, the pinned post makes no mention of that does it? I may have missed it, but I thought not - the feature doesnāt work for me, just spins and then after a long time, goes to the plan builder page.
Not really useful for me.
It suggests Iāll drop my endurance riding from total 7 hours just one 2:30 ride (plus two 30-minute rides) while increasing my intensity days from 2 to 3 (from total 2:30 to 4:45). Dropping the total volume from 9:30 to 8:15. Iām not really keen on doing that as Iāve actually been doing about 12 hours weekly and planning to increase that as the summer approaches.
It does suggest I should do 6 instead of 5 days per week, but given that two of these rides are just 30 minutes easy, itās in reality more like 4 days of actual training.
At least itās no more suggesting me about 5 hours of total volume as it did about a month ago.
2x on that.
Iām on a custom Tri Plan. The button is there. I click it, but nothing seems to happen.
Because youāre on the tri plan. As mentioned a couple of times within this thread already.
Thanks Vrakoss.
I read the announcement and gave up skim reading a little too early.
I heard this announced on the podcast by Jonathan, I have read the whole announcement. Neither called out exceptions or problems or that it was a Beta product. The button is available and not greyed out.
Yet another substandard product release from TrainerRoad. I am a bit frustrated at this point.
Youāre right. I was to harsh there. Its not indicated anywhere else unfortunately.
Iām not sure if itās just me, but across two browsers (FirefoxāMac, ChromeāWin11), Iām not able to open the Check Volume link.
The other options will open as expected, but this one doesnāt. The network tab eventually gets a 200 in the request that fires when I click, so the request to open doesnāt fail, but it wonāt open the page.
If support needs a ticket please let me know.
I am a similar situation where a Masterās Plan works well for me. Did I over look the way to keep it a masters plan when the volume check defaults to 3 intense days?
ā¦same here
Iām not able to open the link either. Safari and Chrome on a Mac.
Check Volume button wonāt work for me on Chrome/Mac either. Just chatted with a TR rep and theyāre reporting the bug. Iāve tried several times over the last 2-3 weeks and the page just spins without loading.
I just did the check volume and it recommended moving from 3 days a week to 4 days a week. Due to other life commitments I can only do 3 days a week but could do more time on those days. Can you use the check volume but force the days to stay the same?
Hi folks,
Two weeks ago I checked my plan and it suggested to increase volume:
- Mon : rest (no change)
- Tue: 1:00 intense ā 1:30 intense
- Wed: rest ā 0:30 endurance
- Thu: 1:00 intense ā 1:30 intense
- Fri: rest (no change)
- Sat: 1:30 intense ā 2:00 intense
- Sun: 2:00 endurance ā 2:30 intense (manually changed to 3:00 solo outdoor)
I made the check 1 week before my first race of the season (cat. B, race was last weekend). Before checking and adjusting the Plan, the week after the race should have been an easy week with intense days reduced to endurance workouts (as far as I remember). But instead, after adjusting the plan, I got Anaerobic/VO2max Intervals on tue/thu/sat, but with 50% reduced duration. Same for next week.
So my question: did you change the algorithm for easy weeks? or is this the normal taper of a specialty phase 2 weeks leading towards the first cat A race (next weekend)?
Could it be that I made the mistake to check and adapt the plan in the middle of a phase and not at the start? As a consequence, could it be that the normal cycle of 3 hard/1 easy weeks shifted and my initial easy week got lost?
Edit: @Jonathan do you have any thoughts on this?
I just performed a volume check today as I am starting a recovery week. For reference, I had built a 5-day per week masters program for my 2025 events. I had been adjusting the slider to account for shoulder surgery 6-weeks ago. Volume check today recommended a 3-day per week masters program with moderate training and swapped be back into Build next week. All of it makes sense based on my training load the last 6-weeks.
Iāve got something weird. When I click ācheck volumeā it takes me to plan builder giving me the following recommended schedule:
- Monday rest
- Tuesday 90min hard intervals
- Wednesday 30min easy ride
- Thursday 90min hard intervals
- Friday rest
- Saturday 2 hrs hard intervals
- Sunday 90min endurance
Now this doesnāt exactly work with family planning; I canāt ride 5 days, so therefore I select ā4 workoutsā in plan builder. This is where the weird thing happens. It now gives me this schedule:
- Monday rest
- Tuesday 60min hard intervals
- Wednesday rest
- Thursday 60min hard intervals
- Friday rest
- Saturday: 90min hard intervals
- Sunday: 90min endurance
Wouldnāt it make more sense for plan builder to just throw out the 30min endurance ride and leave the rest the same? It seems a bit inconsistent.
I know I can just edit the workout durations to get this done (throw out the 30min endurance ride and make everything else as recommended), but just wanted to point out this seems a bit ābuggyā.
Itās important to note that when building out a custom plan or using the āCheck Volumeā feature, weāre making a general recommendation of what we think is the ābestā option for you, given your training history.
Once you start to make changes (adding or removing a day of the week, for example), itās not always easy or logical to apply the exact same philosophy/logic to the new parameters.
The recommendations for each plan (in your case, both the 5-day and 4-day) are based on our database of over 250M rides, which shows that, in general, athletes training 4 days a week may have better success with one type of schedule over another.
In your situation, the solution may seem simple (drop the Wednesday ride), but weāre not necessarily looking at that 4-day-a-week plan the same as the 5-day-a-week one, hence the differences. In this specific case, as you mentioned, itās easy enough to achieve your desired plan by simply removing the Wednesday workout.
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I completely agree with this. I really wish there were a way to lock in the Masters plan volume. I recently switched from a 3-day intensity schedule to 2 days, and I feel so much better. Before that, I was starting to feel burned out and losing motivation, even while following the adaptive training recommendations.
Of course, thatās not TrainerRoadās faultāthereās no easy way to account for outside stressors like work and life. Thatās exactly why it would be helpful to have the option to lock volume to the Masters plan. Since moving to Masters, I havenāt seen volume increases suggested. But when I was on 3 days per week, I would often get an increase volume if I checked in on it.