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I see some yellow days in my past calendar which consistently coincide with my recovery days. But l don’t see any colour for today or next days of the week. Shouldn’t this utility be able to tell you your current and immediate future state?

If there is no colour, you are good to go.

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Red Light Green Light game must be a US thing. For internationals, if I can dane to speak for them, it only makes sense if there is a red and a green.

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Just a big shoutout to the TR team. Biggest thing to remember here for me is that this is a early access feature so its not going to be perfect, yet. I am just happy to be testing it out. I am sure the team will take our feedback and make it better over time. Excited to see where it goes!

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Sort of, since the origin is a South Korean television series made famous on Netflix which is where/why Nate referenced it years ago:

Agreed (hence my push these last 2 weeks).

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Something else that would be nice would be showing what color you are on the career page of the APP.
This way I don’t have to look at the calendar and know as soon as we open the app.

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100% agreed that it should be seen on the Career page too.

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It would be nice if there was a way to quickly toggle the feature on/off from the calendar. It’s interesting to see at times but having it present all the time so prominently feels like overkill.

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not 100% sure, but this could be why I still have ptsd about some of these workouts.

:joy:

At least now when I say I got burned out I have something other than vague textual description.

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My Career page shows yellow on Monday, just like my Calendar

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I’ll see if it works on mine, since it’s a rest day for me it should be green.
Like others have mentioned, some type of green :white_check_mark: or visual would help clear the noise of what color I am for the day, on the career page.
It’s a new feature and early access, I’m sure they are open for opinions.

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Not necessarily a green, if you had a hard session/ ride yesterday it could be yellow telling you that it would be recommended to tone it down today or red, recommending you to rest today. Im on a rest day today and its yellow. If I rest (which I am doing) I’ll be green (or white :wink: ) to go on tomorrow.

I asked this after the podcast and it went unanswered. There’s mixed messaging when you’re told “red means don’t train”and “if you train on a red day the next day will be green”.

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Aw, yeah. Now to confirm how stupid I’ve been at times! And, just maybe, how smart I’m being this year so far. Very excited for this one! Thanks!

EDIT:
Wow. This is a very graphic depiction of how stupid I can actually be. In cross referencing the “red days” with comments posted in my personal journal it becomes obvious I just don’t listen to my own reason. Quick note: I’m very happy with the “No Green” in the calendar. IMO the calendar would become too cluttered and not draw attention to caution. Everything would just be colorful.

Case in point (full disclosure, I was upping my volume this particular week):

February 1 - Yellow - Did an hour endurance as scheduled. Comment in journal “Gave a brief thought about shortening this on up. But sent it. Ride was easy, but felt my gas tank going empty.”
February 2 - Yellow - Did a two hour threshold as scheduled. Journal comment included “legs are trashed”.
February 3 - Red - Did a two and a half hour endurance as scheduled. Couple of comments in my journal included “had to keep digging till it was over” and “this was a grind”.
February 4 - Red - TR had adapted me to a slightly easier ride today, but I bailed and did an easy 30 minutes.
February 5 - Yellow (assuming I got out of the red due to reducing yesterday’s ride) - First ride of recovery week, 90 minutes endurance as planned.
February 6 - Yellow - No riding.
February 7 - Green. Easy 45 minutes as planned.

This seemed to reset me to yellow for two days, during which I did only one easy endurance ride and was back to green.

Bottom line for me so far is that it seems like the algorithm is smarter than me (which isn’t saying much) and that should help make better decisions if even only a day earlier. Which could ostensibly save my season.

Am wondering if I’ll be able to finally translate some of the feelings/comments I have after various workouts. In the past, I’ve done a poor job of using them to alter my plan going forward (see example above).

Finally, I believe it will be an important tool when attempting to alter the volume of my plan. Had I listened to the algorithm during this week of increasing volume I would have definitely been better off.

Will continue to monitor closely and give relevant feedback when warranted. So far, I’m super excited about this new feature! Thanks!

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They say it’s not (strictly) TSS based. But for simplicity here let’s assume it is. Just because you train on a red or yellow day doesn’t automatically mean the next day should also be yellow or red. It would depend on how much TSS (we’re assuming here) your ride was on that preceeding yellow or red day. Even though you trained, if it was light enough, you still shed enough fatigue to be green the next day.

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That sure seems like a Copy/Paste error with source material from the AIFTPD FAQ :wink:

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I agree, but then red does not mean stop, and if that’s the case, then I don’t see the point in the whole system.

This was my big take away from using a Whoop for a year (didn’t renew) I stuggle with to much intensity, but I can handle a lot more volume than in a standard TR plan

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I think people are treating RLGL like it’s a tachometer in a car. It’s not. If you’re in the red with your engine, the risk is acute, catastrophic failure, i.e. a connecting rod instantly lets go. RLGL isn’t like that. If you are training in the red, the risk of “engine” failure is more chronic in nature, i.e. if you keep on doing this for some period of time, your engine may (will?) fail.

As for yellow … I welcome it. It means I’m pushing. But I am not likely to do intensity on a yellow day … but then again … maybe I will. Especially if it’s an outdoor ride with my buddies and I don’t want to miss out. :rofl:

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Runs are considered and we’re working on swims.

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