Recovery week / weight training conflict

im currently on a recovery week and I go to the gym on a weekly basis. The activity was still in my calendar despite it being a recovery week. I kept the weights light and gave it an estimated tss of 15. This however has still resulted in a yellow day for tomorrow with a workout of pioneer-3. Then on Saturday & Sunday both 1.5hour endurance rides with IFs of 0.69. Should I skip one of these workouts to get the week back on track or go with the flow? Also why is the gym workout still in my calendar for a recovery week and moving forward should I remove the gym from any future recovery weeks?

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Hey, I think TR does not have a feature to remove or adjust you strenght training activity, so it’s up to user to adjust it in your calendar.

I try to plan a deload week in gym when it’s a recovery week and that works well for me.

But I also find it tricky how to write the sets in, because TR wants you to mark only sets brought to or close to failure - which I didnt do any. I just eyeball that metric in deload week personally or dont put it that deload workout in TR at all.

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@bordali is on the right track here.

If you schedule an activity on your calendar, we won’t take control and edit it for any reason. We like to guide you through your training, not dictate it.

Moving forward, I don’t see any real issues with what’s going on here. Try to keep your gym work easy during rest weeks and if you get a yellow day afterward, you’re still going to get an easy ride, so there’s not much lost.

If this weren’t a rest week and that yellow day was turning one of your key hard workouts into an easy day, then you’d have to decide if you wanted to prioritize the gym on that specific day, or your bike workout the next day.

As long as you’re not feeling cooked from the gym, I’d go ahead and finish out your training week as it stands. If we think you need a rest day, we’ll give you a red day instead of yellow.

Let me know if this helps! :slightly_smiling_face:

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I do 4 week blocks of training plans for lifting and my endurance. I just coincide my endurance recovery weeks with either a new block of lifting (therefore the loads are usually lighter anyway) or the last week of lifting where i do some heavier work but a lot less volume, 1/2/3rm’s. It works for me and doesn’t make recovery weeks feel like a total bore, which is debatable but i like it :smiley: