TrainerRoad - Feature Requests of what athletes expect / want in the future

Turning off (doesn’t mean you can’t use it) AIFTP detection will put ramp tests back into your schedule at the appropriate time.

You can still chose to just run it that day and sub the workout, but it would put the ramp tests back in.

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It just took me 15 minutes to figure out why I couldn’t find the “alternate” option for a workout. Because it was an outdoor ride. Now looking in the forum it looks like it has been asked before to be able to find alternates for outside workouts… Is there a reason this isn’t happening? Or at least add to the instruction page that “indoor” has to be selected :slight_smile:

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I’ve just shared this with the team. Thanks for keeping this one alive!!

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In the top right corner of my app it says Workout end time Xx:xx or some other verbiage. It’s there regardless of being in full screen or not. I’m running a MacBook though.

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Yes, my feature request is to be able to see (or toggle to see) the workout remaining time, not the workout end time. In my example below, my youtube entertainment is running full screen on my Macbook Air and there is no clock visible. So the "workout end time” is useless to me without a current time to compare it to.

So when I want to answer, “how much longer will you be?” I have to try to calculate it roughly out from the timeline bar. It would just be much easier if, on clicking the elapsed time it toggled to remaining time, for example. Remaining workout time is common in other training apps.

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I personally find the “workout ends at” time in TR far more useful than “remaining time” in other apps.

I suppose choice is good but I definitely wouldn’t want to lose that.

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Agreed, which is why i suggested a toggle.

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Might be nice to be able to toggle all the times so you can swap between “how long have I been on the ride/interval” and “how long is left of the ride/interval”.

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As mentioned by someone else, you can definitely do this in other apps, so it’s a great suggestion for TR to do the same

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Here’s one: I’ve been using Apple’s Journal app to journal about non-bike workouts, but I could just as easily be using TR. There are lots of little things that TR could do to enable this:

  1. Apple Health integration (I know, many times requested)
  2. Easy export to text (at least). I sometimes want to copy my notes to another app and being able to quickly copy paste, along with whatever HR/Power/etc info TR has would be excellent.
  3. More formatting options? Just thinking basic markdown options here.
  4. Structured data for exercises where it applies (exercises, weights, reps, etc).

I’m not sure TR wants to be at the center of my exercise world, but I would expect maybe they do (one more impediment to churn, maybe they eventually run it through an LLM to generate something useful to bike training?).

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As advised in the image, in order to view how linear your power is, I think this upper graph should have a fixed timeline (eg; 1 min) regardless of the interval length.

Where the interval is eg; 30 sec duration, it’s fine, but I’ve seen this graph be over 10 mins long which makes it kinda useless if trying to view & maintain a steady power.

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Good high tempo tunes ya have on there

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It’s here on the iPad app. Not sure if available in the desktop app with mini player view.

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Thanks, haven’t used TR with iPad, just laptop. So you’d think with (often) the bigger screens on desktop app setup it would have this feature too… :man_shrugging:

In a similar vein, what I see as an issue is that in TR, something is either a workout, where the system gives you feedback, or it’s not a workout, and almost seems like it didn’t happen unless it affects RL/GL. Every activity you do affects your fitness, but I’m doing activities that aren’t prescribed workouts, it feels like I’m in limbo.

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Few more.

RPE response for external workouts like manual additions ie gym row, ski etc.

PL increases for more than just one zone. Ie a temp/ss 1hr would boost endurance capacity but this isn’t accounted for in PL changes.

Simply one, insert weeks in plans that moves subsequent weeks down rather than being copied in to week along side scheduled weeks.

Pre ride motivation survey in zwift. Feed into AI RLGL.

Subscription only email newsletter/nutrition recipes/sample off bike workouts/blogs.

Maybe community ambassadors in different regions to organise TR group rides or something. Hard to implement but a good way to share suffering stories. Additionally, im sure TR as a company could set up they’re own fondos/races? Reduced price for paid subscribers. Again hard work but good for community cohesion and branding.

Get TR users on the podcast. To share their experiences and normal/relatable stories. Analyse their content.

Keep up the good work too!

They do but those zones aren’t always higher than what you were before.

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Yes I know but they probably should be no?

You said they should increase for more than one zone. They can if the workout has time in that zone that’s rate higher than what your current levels are. The system does what you requested, as you can see it impacted most zones.

Specifically for endurance all you’ll end up doing is hitting a wall where it came offer anymore workouts in the time you have

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