Just throwing this out there for discussion…seems like there are often discussions on this board about how to improve performance at VO2max, or how to improve sprints, or how to improve TTE @ threshold. Would anybody find useful a host of TR 4-week plans to target a certain intensity zone while doi…

[image] bbarrera: While I might start with a TR block as a template, it would be modified. And I’d want to save my block and be able to reuse/modify in the future. I didn’t think of it this way but I like the idea. What if we could save a ‘jarsson block’, then create a group, then share the …

It seems clear that TR are focused on a ‘system’ approach eg Base-Build-Specialty and dont seemt to want to introduce micro blocks or ‘boosters’ for some reason. They appear to be totally hooked on a Plan Builder centric plan design rather than encouraging an adhoc approach where people can select …

[image] mcneese.chad: I need to do more testing, but Copy and Move still seem present in some capacity. I just Copied and Moved a single week from a prior plan week and it worked fine. Sorry - my mistake :slight_smile: Copy and moving week works. But without “clear” and push (it was available…

[image] Bigpikle: They appear to be totally hooked on a Plan Builder centric plan design rather than encouraging an adhoc approach where people can select from individual building blocks. They would probably claim Train Now delivers that… I understand this from a mainstream perspective. Most …

In theory AT should be an ideal vehicle to sort this out. It should know exactly how poor you are at certain zones and be able to produce a 4 week plan for you given certain prompts

I think that AT could be left behind in this case or added way later. I do not want any automatisation in choosing my block or workouts - I know what I want to do, I know every workout because I have manually done them in workout creator. I just want to be able to save the block and share it with ot…

[image] stevepetts372: In theory AT should be an ideal vehicle to sort this out. Well I agree, but let’s not give AT more credit than it’s due. I just did a workout wherein I held a certain power for 14 minutes that I had never before achieved. So an all-time-14-minute power record. I held…

I did say ‘in theory’, but wholehearted agree that it’s far from a reality at present, and probably never. I’d appreciate a VO2 / suprathreshold heavy 4 week block in the plans or the ability to save your own block of workouts. I’d settle for being able to having workout ‘favourites’ saved as part …

[image] stevepetts372: In theory AT should be an ideal vehicle to sort this out. It should know exactly how poor you are at certain zones and be able to produce a 4 week plan for you given certain prompts Not sure I agree with that theory given TR’s focus on a) lack of maximal efforts (except…

I really like this idea. I’ve just modified the first three weeks of SusPBMV to be an intensive VO2 block, I’d really love for that to still be attached to AT to see the recommendations. Same with Threshold and SS, though the problem there is the TR SS catalogue doesn’t go high enough in general it…

Should TR provide plans that target intensity zones? [Feature Request]

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mcalista October 7, 2021, 12:25am 30

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