I’ve just started with TR - long time Training Peaks/Zwift user and road biker/TT’er.
I got my first plan and started off - the ride planned for today was Wheel 2 (3 x 9 threshold intervals) and tomorrow was scheduled as endurance, which looked fine to me.
I duly did the Wheel 2 this morning (Saturday) - it was fine, completed it without any major concerns at the prescribed level. As soon as it loaded, it flagged Sunday as a red day and dumped the endurance. That’s weird - I did the TSS as planned, nothing new, I rated it as hard, but not very hard.
So, I did the plan and then the plan changed - is that what it’s supposed to do, because it makes it very hard to actually PLAN, because my plan for tomorrow has just been chucked out by actually doing the plan.
Any input gratefully received, maybe that’s just the way it works, but it seems odd to me.
The plan will adapt over time. It needs a lot of workouts to understand where you are and how much you can handle. You can ignore red days if you feel you know your body better than TR does.
That being said you can try to adjust the slider in settings/training approach to aggressive rather than balanced. Not for everyone but since you have experience …..
Agree, I think this can sometimes happen when someone who is used to training but is new to TR starts a plan - I think it can be a bit conservative.
I would set your plan to be more aggressive and maybe turn off automatic adaptions so you can more easily ignore the recommendations at least until TR knows you better.
What you are experiencing is normal. Our plans are not fixed, so they will adjust as you start completing workouts.
The plan will adjust future workouts based on how successfully you are completing workouts and through our fatigue management system (what you are experiencing).
By looking at your recent training history, you are upping your training volume from 2-3 hours per week to 6-7 hours, so the system will start you off a bit conservatively until it calibrates.
That said, you can adjust the training approach to be a bit more aggressive and turn off the automatic adjustments so you can accept or decline them yourself (Account>>Settings>>Adaptive Training>>Disable automatic adjustments).
Here is also a great article on how TR creates training plans and our training philosophy
