Is anybody just using the TR Calendar and not using TrainingPeaks or Intervals.icu for tracking their workouts and fitness?
as much as I find the data on TrainingPeaks/intervals.icu interesting I just never really look at it that much. And even more so with TR tracking things, RLGL, adapting my training I’m mostly just letting TR guide me. What am I missing out on?
I use Intervals for the details, the customization, setting my zones, comparing efforts over time, power curve, running, eftp, etc.
I use training peaks for all of my custom and previously purchased training plans and workouts.
it can be overwhelming…i use TR for my training program and stats…i also find the data on Strava worthwhile and zwift power for racing stats…yikes, more than that would overwhelm me and as it is it’s a lot of data.
As much as its a hobby, for some people, in and of itself tracking all the data and going down nerdy rabbit holes I’ve been on a simplification binge lately and have just handed over everything to TRAI. I’ve pretty much dropped all other fiddly platforms where I used to rummage around all the stats and get into some serious mustache twirling about what devious plan I’ll concoct next to squeeze another watt out of my legs. Now I just do more or less what I’m told by TR and if there’s a stat that isn’t in the TR universe I can’t be bothered with it.
Certainly not saying that approach is for everybody but I’ll tell you that for me it’s been really nice just dropping all the academics and focusing on other things and letting the training just be the training without worrying about the results. And the results are coming!
I use TR for my 2 interval days per week (workout library, sometimes workout recommendations), but then manage my overall training load with the help of intervals.icu. They have a really nice graph that shows ramp rate, acute training load, stress balance (form), etc.(see below). I try not to be a slave to just chasing TSS and raising CTL, but I find those concepts very helpful to frame my training and keep me from doing too many stupid things. Some of it lines up really well with concepts in TR (like yellow/red days), but with a lot more granularity.
I have a plethora of apps
Strava, intervals.icu, Xert, TrainingPeaks, TrainerRoad. Each has their good and bad points. Massive overlap obviously - but sometimes interesting to see their different approach to the same base data.
I only use the TR calendar just now (it was the TP calendar before TR) and the rest of the sites are just for post ride information.
For a long while, I would check TR and intervals.icu daily, combing over weekly TSS and a few other measures.. and then one day, decided it was time to trust TR to be dishing out the right workouts and RLGL to keep the guardrailes up.
Have not looked at intervals for coming on a year now, no regrets.
Personally I just hate training peaks but this may be a post for another threat (unpopular opinion). It’s an abomination.
Joe
I used to look at Intervals.icu daily and track my fitness there in addition to TR. At this point though I only use the TR calendar for everything. I don’t see a reason to keep up with multiple site for data - just do the workouts that are given to me and rock on.
I’ve always used TrainingPeaks because I had a coach who used it to provide plans so I was always used to viewing things in there. For me, TP interface is much simpler. Intervals.icu definitely throws a lot at you but I can understand the appeal for bigger data nerds than me.
Wko5 is also a great option for deeper analysis.
Ya I actually really liked intervals.icu for a while there, it’s pretty comprehensive. I think I just got burned out on all the t r a c k i n g g g gg g g gg gg 
so I’ve been more than happy to back off and just enjoy the ride, pardon the pun.
One bonus with TP is it comes with training peaks virtual. I mostly use ROUVY now but tp virtual has some nice features. But that’s separate from the data analysis part.
Huh? The tr workout creator is old and a bit (being generous here) bad.
Two new accounts mentioning this Tempo platform. Are we being astroturfed?
Maybe. What I definitely know is if you go to the intervals.icu forum there are more and more posts popping up promoting some new AI application somebody has created that is, more or less a middleman that pulls in your data and feeds it to ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini and gives you training advice.
I like the UI updates to tp virtual. I’m using both tp virtual and ROUVY right now. I still like TR but it seems like if you have some knowledge about structured training to know how plans generally work and know how to spot some of the oddball workouts AI can generate times it might be okay. For me, TR is just frictionless.
tp virtual has improved a lot. They make frequent updates. I really like that you can setup your own event with bots.
