Hi,
I recently rejoined TR after my injury and I am getting used to the new red/green light feature.
Today after my daily commute I checked my calendar and the day was green and showing my planned workout for today. Tomorrow also appeared green. Since I had time, and felt good I did my SS workout, and found it easy enough ( moderate). But at the end of the workout tomorrow turned red.
I can’t rest tomorrow as I am commuting by bike but I will keep it cool. However, I find this pretty annoying. How was I to know that tomorrow would turn red after a planned workout? AT did not propose me to change the workout or skip it.
here is a screenshot from my calendar. I actually rested completely yesterday and the day before. So I fail to see how tomorrow should be a mandated rest day.
According to interval.icu I am at the top of the gray zone
@SarahLaverty I’m having a similar issue, although I’m not “returning to training” just returning to triathlon. TR gives me scheduled workouts for the week. I follow the prescribed schedule and keep having my long run days, and other days turn up red. Why would TR prescribe work that will result in red days? Why not prescribe easier work, that won’t result in red days if compliant with the plan? The long run/rides are my bread and butter workouts, really need to get these done. I’ve been ignoring RLGL until I have a rest day lately because of this. I lost like 3 weeks of long runs trying to comply with RLGL. I read on another thread that maybe it wasn’t great for multi sport just yet?
BTW, I LOVE the product. Just having a hard time getting used to RLGL with the multisport plans.
You know your body right? RLGL is not mandatory. Why not reduce the slider as mentioned above and see how that looks? Or you could even turn it off if you wished.
yep, that’s what I am doing. But still I generally like TR’s suggestions. So I would like to 1) figure out why they seem to go against logic in this case and 2) possibly improve the feature through my feedback, and 3) avoid doing too much
You did a planned workout and then a number of outside rides, stacking up to approx 140 TSS. Obviously can’t see your training history but I expect, to the machine, it looks like you’ve had a hard day compared to what might be “normal”.
Thanks for the explanation. But if I look at the overall weekly TSS it is not greater than what I had before. My 230% TSS came after two days of complete rest, so I was indeed fresh, and the workout indeed did not feel taxing at all.
So I am wondering whether I shouldn’t just listen to my body, and use RLGL as just as a mere suggestion.
And I have another question. How does RLGL determine my TSS was too high. Is it based on my TSS in previous weeks or is it based on the prescribed TSS for my TR plan?
I’m only guessing but I think its based on your previous weeks looking at my calendar. I’m on a LV masters plan and one of those wo is often replaced by a short club TT so my target TSS is quite low but I consistently do more riding on top of that and things only go yellow. I think is it was based on target TSS rather than typical TSS there would be a lot of red in my calendar.
Hey @Chawski!
RLGL looks at all of your training data, not just TSS. As you mention, we look at your training distribution across power zones, and compare this to your training history, to understand the optimal rate of progression in each power zone and as a whole.
While Aerobic Endurance training doesn’t always immediately feel like it’s taking a toll on your body, large training volumes will catch up with you even if the individual workouts themselves feel manageable. I’ve certainly been guilty of shooting myself in the foot by increasing volume quickly with lots of lower intensity riding.
During the week that you describe above, you were doing a much larger volume than you had in the prior 3 weeks. It appreciate that it feels manageable in the present moment, but RLGL is there to stop you getting to the point where that quickly increasing volume comes back to bite you, and instead ensures you’re progressing at a rate that your body can adapt and respond to.
We look at the work you have done accross different power zones, and use the principle of Progressive Overload to find the optimal rate of progression to advance your fitness.
I will always encourage you to listen to your body! The only problem is that most of us are actually quite bad at listening to the subtle cues and messages we get from our bodies. By the time our body is screaming at us to slow down, we are often in a hole that takes time to dig ourselves out of. RLGL prevents your from getting into the hole in the first place.
The good news is that with time, RLGL will help you understand and listen to your body. The results you will see with RLGL will build trust in your relationship with your body and the subtle cues you recieve from it. I suggest that you accept the Adaptations suggested by RLGL so that you can experience how effective it is. As I mentioned earlier, you can adjust how aggressive your progression is in your Account Settings if you feel that you can handle a more aggressive Progressive Overload.
