(For reference, I donate every 8 weeks and I have no plans to stop. I time my donations to be immediately after my A Events)
I have started annotating my training plan with week long ‘notes’ following a blood donation.
The donation day is annotated as an illness.
The week long notes give a percentage and say ‘Post Blood Donation’.
I do 92% for the first week and turn it up 2% per week. That reminds me where to set the workout % for my HIIT days.
If my RPE drops to medium, I turn it up 2% for the next workout. If my RPE is very hard, I turn it back down.
I also try to move my recovery week to the post-donation week.
This is a very manual process, but seems to maximize my post-donation training gains and workout success. I’d love it if the AI could do those adjustments for me given a donation date and my last RPE for a HIIT session. To make it more broadly useful, AI could do it for any illness using the HIIT session RPE’s to adjust.