# Recovering from blood donation

**URL:** <https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/recovering-from-blood-donation/4445>\
**Category:** Training\
**Created:** [October 24, 2018, 1:34am UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/recovering-from-blood-donation/4445 "2018-10-24T01:34:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![PecanGrower](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/pecangrower/32/159039_2.png) [@PecanGrower](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/PecanGrower)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2024, 6:59pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/recovering-from-blood-donation/4445/94 "2024-11-26T18:59:30Z")

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(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.

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