Ooooh, no. No no no. No.
Imagining all these amateurs making moves in their local races based on a few progression level screenshots theyāve seen on Strava 
The TR approach is uniqueā¦āletās tailor our product to the goals and abilities of each clientā. Whether you like the update or not, whether you think showing PLs is relevant or not, the approach taken by TR here is not consistent with their philosophy. On the podcast, they consistent say that their mission is āto make people fasterā. Tough to see how that was the goal of this update. This should have been rolled out as an update that allowed people to choose how their workouts are displayed. Personally, I am not a fan of this change.
But they are a business. It makes us faster if they get more money.
It does feel like it isnt what they would normally do though.
folks, sometimes stuff doesnāt have to make you faster, sometimes itās ok to have something fun to generate discussion with your friends. if you have a problem with privacy, you can do as I do and set all your rides to default to private. I donāt share all my TR rides, people donāt need to see every time I do Pettit. Maybe a friend sees your progress and is interested in giving TR a try, that isnāt a bad thing
again, a lot of you all are taking crap way too seriously
THIS. 
Weāre not shareholders. Weāre users. Itās great the forum is a place to chat about things and have discussion but ultimately TR is a business and needs to update/change to survive in an increasingly crowded space.
If people hate being billboards that much start wearing kit with no sponsors and kit that has no labels with the manufacturing companies on it. Because Iām sure many outspoken people here have a Castelli or Rapha logo somewhere on their body when riding outsideā¦.
Itās just a picture with numbers and I guarantee all the non TR people donāt know what it means and say āthat looks different than a zwift mapā and move on with their day.
And anyone racing that basis tactics on TR PLs of a competitor is insane. Especially because I can guarantee those TR athletes are training outside tooā¦ā¦
It would also be great to have an option to not show heart rate on the image. Iām guessing a lot of people who hide heart rate during their workout also donāt want it on the Strava image. Love all the work everyone at TR does!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, either stop doing this share or PLs to Strava, or allow me to switch it off. I do NOT want to share that much detail with even the carefully chosen few who I allow to follow me.
Some of use are not mad sharers! I now have a policy of going into Strava and deleting that picture.
Because I choose to. With this feature I have no choice. Forcing me not to link to Stava is taking away my choices. Itās a fundamental principle of data privacy. My data, my choice how it is used.
From an ethical perspective there can be no benefit to me by sharing this data. The only benefit is a commercial one for TR (my friends seeing it and becoming interested in signing up to TR)
So TR decide to share my data without my consent purely for their benefit.
TBF I give TR 10/10 for the way they have responded to the issue with an option not to share.
As I noted earlier, people have been using social media feeds and data for years when evaluating their competitors. They visit Athlinks, USA cycling or USAT, etc to look for results / progression. They also go into Strava feeds and look at actual data that is there.
This isnāt a new phenomenon nor something that people would suddenly start doing based on PLās getting posted.
Right?! And thatās exactly whatāll happen. Hey, Iām one of the stronger C racers in my local club. I donāt want some of the stronger women knowing what Iām doing 
Not quite. When I buy a kit I know what labels are there. The corollary to your example would that I buy a kit without any labels on it. A week later after a few washes logos suddenly appear and now I canāt wear the kit without the labels being visible. Hope you like them!
I donāt know how anyone on the development team could possibly think this was a good idea. Now I have to go and delete the image from Strava after each workout
You can turn your of these extra graphics from within Strava easilyā¦
https://www.strava.com/settings/partner_integrations
Strava obviously have not been great at explaining this.
I agree. IMO, showing all levels is info overload, especially in the small size that most people will be viewing it, likely their phone.
Limiting it to that workoutās targeted levels would give more room to make them larger and more legible. A side benefit would be that itād serve as a label for the type of workout completed, something people not familiar with TRās workouts may appreciate.
āHmmā¦what type of workout did Nate do today?ā 
My workout from Saturday doesnāt show any picture. Some of you might be happy with that. I would prefer to see the pic.
This argument has come up multiple times. Implementing a training strategy to specifically exploit the weaknesses of your rivals based on their own training is an advanced tactic that I sincerely doubt is happening in the vast majority of amateur racing tiers.
Yes, having progression levels would make such a thing easier, but anyone that knows how to exploit that would also have been able to identify the primary training benefit of workouts in the old graph. Really, how hard do you all think it is to spot an endurance vs sweet spot vs VO2 workout? Itās night and day just looking at the old pictures.
Which leads toā¦ if you really care that much then why would you share your workouts with your rivals in the first place?
To be clear, I do think amateur racers consider the strengths and weaknesses of their rivals in their approaches, but I think that is overwhelmingly based on past and current performance in racing, not by analyzing each others workouts. Secrets are quickly laid bare in the first race or two of a series.
I like it 
In late with a hot take: itās fine.
Iām glad the folks at TR are going to give us some control over what gets posted.
This is the reason I specifically use a heart rate strap that only supports one connection. I connect it to my Wahoo BOLT and thatās the workout file Iāll save locally as the āone version of the truthā. So that way TrainerRoad records the workout without HR and thatās the one that I upload to Strava. Thus my workout images donāt show HR.
While I donāt have a big privacy concern about people seeing my HR, I do think it clutters up the chart. I just want my followers to see (relative) watts! 