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

What is the index? Is it different than HR decoupling?

Don’t know exactly but relies on the maximum power available MPA which is a specific Cert metrics

I’d like the option to ‘save’ my current training settings (durations, training approach, weekly hours, etc.) So I can then make multiple changes to my calendar to see what AI thinks about it - what happens if I add a huge volume week, or do a VO2 block or anything else?

Then after messing around with my calendar, I want to be able to revert everything back to my original plan/settings without having to do it manually.

Can we please get the option to add Rest Days via the normal „Add Workout" menu? Right now you need to have a yellow or red day and use the „Train Now" Dialog to add one. For manual planning purposes it would be great to be able to add Rest Days manually as well when or wherever one wants. The „Time Off" annotation just doesn’t hit the same way :wink:

I’d love to have a training race option in the weekly plan builder the way zwift races are an option to replace a workout. My local crit series is 20 weeks and adding each one as a C race is… exhausting.

In your case, I’d recommend adjusting your schedule so that one of your hard workouts lands on the days that you have races.

You can then switch that hard workout to a Group Ride either in bulk through editing your plan, or week by week by simply right-clicking on the workout and selecting “Group Ride” on the days you’re going to race.

Adding C races doesn’t get you much that this approach wouldn’t, and it’s a lot easier in my opinion.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding you, but what would be the benefit to adding a rest day via “workouts” instead of the “time off” annotation?

For one, at least in my mind one doesn’t always equal the other: a rest day for me indicates to stay away from any activity worth tracking in TR. Time off just indicates to me that I won’t be around to exercise according to a plan. Might be there’s still some jogging at the beach happening when time allows it

That’s funny. I think of them exactly the opposite. I guess in a way that proves your point though.

Apologies if this has already been mentioned or discussed, but I think it would be nice to see some more options for the post ride survey response. Maybe its getting too subjective, but I’d prefer it to be 1-10 rather than 1-5. I am frequently wishing I had a choice between moderate and hard, and another one between hard and very hard. Sometimes I’d like an option between very hard and all out also. Of course the AI would have to trained to figure that out too, but seems like a simple change. A slider scale would work too. I often feel forced to pick a response that is either a little easier or litter harder than I subjectively actually feel about that ride. Which I feel like then is messing up the AI. So basically I feel like I self selecting at that point whether I want the AI to get harder or easier, and not as confident that I’m getting the right ride based on how I actually felt. Is this just me and I need to get over it?

This is good feedback! I think this would be a nice update. :grin:

My current request It would be improvements to the filtering on the power records graph when looking at the workout selection

For example here is tonight threshold workout. Looking at this graph, you would think it would be easy! the NP power targets are way below what I have done recently. Looking at average power is a similar situation, it looks like it should be easy.

But the orange line is effectively the hard VO2 max workout I did a few days ago. This was a very hard 7x 50s on 50s off repeats at 360w that has pushed up the NP out to 12minutes.

50s on off repeats for 12 minutes is way different to 12 minutes at threshold.

Id love to be able to compare this selected threshold workout with the power curve from the last 6 weeks of just the threshold works (i.e. filter out the VO2 max workouts and sweet-spot etc)

If I filter the selected comparison to just show the hardest completed threshold workout of the last 6 weeks I get this. It is a far better representation of my current ability at threshold workouts.

This shows me that today’s workout will likely be hard (not easy), but if im feeling strong, I can likely turn the % up at halfway and make it to the end without popping.

The IA Predicted difficulty is 76% likelihood of HARD. The AI seems to be able to compare threshold to threshold workout thankfully and not just NP and AP of the last 6 weeks. Clearly it has some smarts.

I’ve raised this before too. The “compared workouts” often don’t compare and may lead to poor workout selection.

I would love to have a choice of “E-Bike” ride in the Post ride RPE survey choices. I commute to work by e-bike and choosing “1 - Easy” isn’t really the same as an easy ride without the motor. Unfortunately I don’t have a Power Meter on my e-bike so TR is using RPE of 1 - Light plus HR data to decide if the ride will be impacting my training.

I don’t think the survey should be dependent on which machine you’re on but based off of the relative perceived effort in general. Just saying this because I rented e-bikes with a friend one day for an “off day” in Squamish and I was surprised how NOT of a recovery day it was despite the motor haha

I would love the ability to edit the TSS of a recorded outside ride without a power meter. I just did a ride with my kid at a below recovery pace that lasted about 1.5 hours. I was wearing an hrm. Intervals correctly put the TSS at 10, while TR thinks it’s 40 (way too high). I remember being able to edit the TSS in the past, but I can’t figure out how to do that anymore.

Do you have HR-based TSS estimation set up?

Yes I do. With an accurate max HR. It looks like the lowest TR goes is “easy,” for both estimation and planning purposes. It’s 30 TSS per hour, which is normalizing 55% of FTP. I was probably normalizing closer to ~25% of FTP.

Interesting. I’ve definitely been on those rides where my HR stays in double-digits, so I can see why this might be annoying.

I’ll bring this to the team and see if it’s something we can fix. :+1:

I know in intervals.icu there is a sea level power analysis that shows what my efforts higher up translate to IRL.

I would love if this was also available in TR, and wish the system could take altitude into account, because let’s be honest, 280w at 8000ft is a bit more challenging than at 5000ft, or at sea level for that matter.

It can be frustrating nailing a workout and then seeing your aiFTP projection lowered due to rating a workout very hard because of this.

With the rise in altitude camps, I wonder if more people experience this as well and just wanted to bring it to light.

Here is a similar thread I found from awhile ago, and figured I would bring it back up.