To be able to specify the starting phase in the plan builder.
E.g. skip the base phase if you have already completed one.
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I’d like to have the option to hide metrics of my choosing in the workout player. If I’m doing a ride outside I can hide the timer during intervals. Maybe others would actually want to hide the watts.
You can hide heart rate by clicking on it
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It would be nice if when you associate an outside / ride not done in TR with a workout on TR you could have the name of the uploaded ride changed to be the workout name. Make this a setting at least.
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I’ve mentioned it once before but would like to bring it up in this thread too. I WOULD LOVE some lunch and learns on how to use the software and look at our numbers. Or maybe a series that brings this into the Podcast. There is so much in there, I think TR folks think we are smarter than we are. 
Anyway, I just found the Season match functionality. What does the 10-week toggle do? Show current point -10 weeks? I’d love to understand how to read the data and compare my progression from last year.
cheers,
Greg
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A better way to adjust resistance on V02 workouts.. I either have way to much (at rests) or not enough at the V02. Erg is aweful for VO2 and resistance has way too many “clicks” and hard to mangage on the app.. My old trainer/spin bike had a 1-15 scale with easy to push buttons. Mobile phones, no so easy when you’re dripping sweat.
Maybe increase the “button size”, incorp volume button, … or have a way when switching from erg to res or std have the ability for default res/std value remember/match what you were just at in erg for given cadence.
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What bike/smartbike are you using? Because it seems you want gears?
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I would like to see the ability to get a plan that includes strength training.
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I find that V02 works great for me in erg mode on my Tacx Neo, but I do agree with you about the adjustment increment. I have long said the TR needs to add +10% and -10% to go along with the +1% and -1% buttons.
The long press they have now is like trying to hit the lottery when you let go. Very cumbersome, especially when you’re gassed from interval training.
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I guess I have the same wish as @grega . Sometimes I don’t want ERG mode but control the power myself and use resistance mode. And yes I could switch gears but I want to stay chain middle (most smooth/silent/etc) (also think of Zwift cog) and just fine tune with resistance slider. And that sometimes is a bit tricky going from 9 to 27 or so but I have gotten used to it.
Back in the days I thought about developing a companion app / website just for that: Have some web page or app with presets or quick press actions that get send to a web service running on my windows system and the web service would manipulate the TR windows app via send keys etc.
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What? Someone thinks they way I do? Hahah. In general it could be much easier to adj. resistance. Either bigger on screen buttons, a +/- 10 or the volume button on phone.
BTW, there is a third party app QZ (qdomyos-zwift). As the name says it’s mostly for zwift.
Cheers.
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Yes, I saw QZ sometime ago when thinking about how to make my Tacx Neo support virtual shifting. I guess if that app had a polished and modern simplified UI then it would be much more popular.
I wish there was a place to also set goals within the app.
Yes, I have my spring A and my fall A event, and yes, I have supporting B event(s) but how cool would it be to also say, “I was to be at 280FTP by this date.”
I think the new TR AI could take that info and lay out the plan to make that happen. I could see the AI showing different options when choosing how aggressive the plan is going to be. Like as one slides the curser down the line from least to most aggressive it says “goal reached in 27 weeks” move to most aggressive “goal reached in 16 weeks” kind of thing. Still keep the verbiage about “based on your recent training patters we recommend a less aggressive plan.”
The idea here isn’t to change the adaptive AI but rather to accomplish secondary “feel good” goals alongside ones events. I think this could also be a constantly moving target. As one hit their workouts nail their nutrition and recovery the AI updates the calendar where it’s notated as a green day as the day they’re pacing to hit the goal 280FTP. Conversely as one fails workouts, has poor sleep and maybe even have a sick day or two the green goal day on the calendar gets pushed back.
I just know that sometimes dangling a carrot will make one salivate. and being able to tell my buddies that my FTP is 280 has a bigger wow factor than simply saying I raced a local fondo and finished 82nd out of 350.
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Feature suggestion: for us older riders, training is often a battle to just maintain current FTP or even to just slow the decline.
- in the new FTP prediction feature, add a baseline comparison to show what would happen over the same time if you didn’t do that training plan. e.g. over 12 weeks predicted FTP will stay the same by training, but in the same time period, without training, it would predict a drop of 3%.
- additional, realistic targets for older riders in the custom plan builder again based around the idea of doing the best you can for your age, which will not be setting ever increasing FTPs as you get older
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via the web interface there is a view weight history and view ftp history.
how about showing those rather as lines/graph… then show below the graph the table based records.
a line graph will show trends much easier/faster.
G
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With the new AI FTP Prediction, TR could run multiple scenarios:
- here’s your predicted FTP with your current plan
- if you change masters to standard, it would be this
- if you change balanced to moderate, it would be this
…that would be amazing use of AI.
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this was already discussed, you can search for Monte Carlo simulation in the forum. Also Nate said something like this is planned in the future to give you the best path through your training. But there are constraints with regard to performance and computational power that need to be considered.
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Thanks.
So then the logical follow up feature request would be to connect the trainer to an electric generator to in order to power the monte Carlo simulation.
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Obviously the first point is a key part of the release, and the other two you can do yourself on an ad hoc basis, as well as adding/deleting/changing any planned workouts you fancy, to see the effect on predicted FTP.
Good point! Might give that a go.
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