I took a break from structured training for 10 weeks but was still riding and staying fit. I prepared a new season with plan builder. The progression levels at the time of creating the plan looked somewhat reasonable. I completed the Ramp Test and my FTP went from around 330W to 320W which I expected.
I accepted the proposed adaptations without much checking and saw that all my progression levels reset to 1.0 and the newly proposed workouts look very easy. Is this correct? I do not want to waste valuable training time. The sweet spot sessions looks now more like easy endurance workouts. I am thinking to manually up the proposed workouts but something does not look correct.
This is expected, your Progression Levels are simply a reflection of your current fitness, not a gauge by which your workouts are being assigned.
That is based upon your FTP, which it sounds like is up to date. However, since you’ve been training for 10 weeks (it sounds like doing base rides?), you’re probably ready for build!
Just plug in your start date for a previous time when you started doing base, and Plan Builder will adjust accordingly and likely put you into your build phase!
Again, just to reiterate, Progression Levels arent guiding the difficulty of a workout, just showing your current ability levels. Future support for AT will account for your previous unstructured workouts to show PL changes for those prior weeks, too!
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This is expected after 10 weeks of no TR worouts. More info under FAQ / Why did my Progression Levels change? / Time Off
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- Not true. If there is little to no recent TR related workouts on the calendar, dropping to 1.0 makes perfect sense and is intended.
I just went through the same since I came off about 6 weeks with hardly any “TR” work. I just worked from there, manually selected a few slightly harder workouts with the Alternates function and let TR drive the buss. Worked great and I am not onto SSB2 with more up to date PL’s.
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YAY! It will be sick when the next iteration of AT that the team is working on can account for all those prior rides and show you where your levels are going into your training, but I think the team needs to keep reiterating that its just showing where your fitness is at currently, not the metric used to guide your training. We at TR should do a better job of that while there’s still confusion, sorry!
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But why did the reset to 1.0 happen after the ramp test, which was actually better than expected? This is all confusing to me. I was not really in a true base phase during the 10 week. I was lifting weights and still riding. My CTL probably came down from the 90s to the mid 70s during that time. Plan builder asked for my fitness level and I answered. The proposed workouts before the Ramp test looked reasonable but the adaptations after ramp test changed all that. I wanted to let plan builder decide about my build up to A events and not go immediately into build phase. My plan was to create a bigger base this year.
YAY so glad to hear you’re getting what you need out of Adaptive Training! That rules, we’re always happy to help out.
I need to find those beer + recovery research articles… 
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Its the developer’s top priority. 
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