We’re slowly rolling out the new TrainerRoad AI today, and I want to answer some FAQs. What is AI FTP Prediction? AI FTP Prediction simulates your planned workouts in your calendar and predicts your FTP on the prediction date. Your date is initially 4 weeks out; it will get closer as you approach…

hmm, the zwift races were baked into the plan (replacing a VO2 workout with the race), the commutes are all <30 minutes, usually 5-10 TSS. Assumed since there’s ~2 years of commuting data backed into the log it would be able to factor in that minimal addition. I tried backing down the plan all the w…

Is the bottom line that you’re asking how to set up your plan so that your FTP increases in the Specialty phase? If so, I would try to change the way you think about this phase. Specialty is meant to hone your skills towards the event that would typically occur at the end of the phase. It often mea…

[image] Pbase: It’s not a phase aimed at increasing FTP I think this fact gets even more obscured by the lure of trying to game the FTP detection at the end of the phase! It’s not clear if @chrishtatu has a specific event as a goal or not; even if not, I think the specialty phase still has v…

Cheers, thank you for the clarification. Looks like I misunderstood the purpose of Specialty. My first warm-up crits will be in early April, so a good shout to replace this specialty block with another Build Phase, push specialty until March, then start my next plan (oriented at Randonneuring vs rac…

understanding your point Nate, can somehow relate to “so-called” though. What everyone names AI these days, used to be an algorithm, not very long ago. I understand that everyone jumps on the bandwagon, but still, naming something intelligent that actually isn’t. Is that excellent?

[image] Maethu: can somehow relate to “so-called” though. What everyone names AI these days, used to be an algorithm, not very long ago. I understand that everyone jumps on the bandwagon, but still, naming something intelligent that actually isn’t. Regarding “so-called”, “bandwagon” etc, see …

[image] Maethu: naming something intelligent that actually isn’t SkyNet has your username…

Thanks for the response The calendar is fairly flexible yea (Just following what TR recommended) with the exception of the Zwift races which are either every Wed or every Sat (I prefer the Wed evenings), typically 25-35min TT’s at >0.9 IF or longer at >0.85 IF. The TT series ends at the end of Feb…

[image] luke22: i mean, people are skeptical about the AI because it is doing odd things. Rather than get defensive perhaps hear what people are saying and try to improve the current model. When discussing things it’s important that people stick to facts though, else chaos eventually beckons,…

But, but, this totally sucks for absolutely everyone and every single decision it makes is the worst decision it could possibly make and it’s intentionally trying to make me weaker and keep my ftp as low as possible. You can 100% see this in every single post by every single person who has posted in…

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AldridgePrior February 9, 2026, 8:30am 655

Regarding “so-called”, “bandwagon” etc, see here for some facts:

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