Rest week alrady?

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Hi,

Just started trainer road last week and crated a low level plan and have done 3 workouts now. 2 questions:

  1. Does other activities such as Outside rides and zwift races “count” in the adaptive training plan?
  2. Why is my next week “recovery” and only 88TSS? (usually I between 300-800TSS). Shouldnt there first be a recovery week after 6 weeks or something?

Thanks in advance

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Typical training blocks are 3 weeks on, 1 week recovery. TR used to do their base plans 5 weeks on then 1 recovery, but have recently switched this to be in line with literally everyone else.

TR recovery weeks can be too easy/hard depending how many TR z2 workouts you’ve done to affect PLs. PLs sort of fail at their intended goal at z2, particularly if you’re doing outside rides not associated with a TR workout or doing long TR z2 workouts. Just adjust your recovery week accordingly using alternates that seem appropriate.

Any workouts not associated with a TR workout doesn’t affect PLs or adaptive training as of now. This is hopefully going to change in the near future.

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As @MI-XC mentioned, nope, non TR rides will not be looked at by AT or PL’s… YET…

This seems odd to have a recovery week after only one week on a new plan… could be a bug and something that support@trainerroad.com would be better off taking a look at!

Good luck and welcome to TR!

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Hey there and welcome to the TR community! :smiley:

  1. Outside rides and Zwift races don’t trigger adaptations in your plan at this time – but as @MI-XC and @Will_Peters mentioned, this is something we’re working on changing for the future (it’s our company’s top priority!).

  2. Your plan is built around the A race you entered, and there happens to be an “off” number of weeks until now and your event. Your odd rest week that comes a bit earlier than it usually would is scheduled as such so that your lead in to your A race has an ideal balance of work & recovery weeks. While it’s still important to have that optimal balance of work/recovery throughout your entire plan, it’s less important this early on.

Hope this helps! Feel free to let us know if you have any other questions.

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Thanks a lot for the awesome replies. Already love this community and TR stuff :slight_smile:

Really hoping that “top priority” with rides outside and Zwift is taken into the plan, will come soon as I guess many are using both platforms :slight_smile:

Have a great new year

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Is this also true if you match those rides with a TR workout on the calendar for the same day?

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Doing so will trigger adaptations, but we don’t recommend it.

Unstructured rides and races rarely match structured workouts well. If you try to match an unstructured ride with a structured workout, you risk inappropriately manipulating your Progression Levels, which may result in unideal workouts in your plan down the line.

We see a lot of cases where athletes match races/rides with TR workouts that result in big boosts to PLs, which consequently triggers AT to serve them workouts that are harder than they are ready for.

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