#featurerequest
Its very difficult to pick out the plan starts/phase starts on the calendar. Can this be coloured/highlighted?
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I’m coming late to this thread, but this resonates with another issue which is ‘hard to solve’. If I am at sweet spot 5.0 level, and I do a week of sweet spot workouts at or around that 5.0 level, my capacity in that zone will have improved. BUT, TR’s progression level doesn’t reflect that, unless you do a harder-rated workout.
It would be so good to see progression recorded by increasing levels when you do a workout which is ‘productive’ in the true sense of the word (as opposed to the TR definition, which is ‘higher level than your most recent hardest workout’).
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I definitely think Trainer Road needs to add more workouts. 4500 just isn’t enough.
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Funny, because I thought up this snarky response when I saw the workout library was up to 4200, and just through a week or so of procrastination that jumped up by 300! How can there even be 300 more workouts to add? I feel like the AI that’s managing adaptive training is also adding these new workouts in some sort of nefarious, self-serving way to justify it’s existence. It seems like it’s just a couple steps away from becoming self-aware and electrocuting me through my trainer.
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It might be precursor to something great (WLv2) 
I have one complaint for those new Z2 workouts, though (for example, Bess). When switching outdoors, it keeps those small change intervals, not giving single range for full duration, like older variants do. Of course, it does not affect anything from workout goal perspective but it screws my headset setup (Wahoo), making interval timer for Z2 useless i.e. I have single field on map screen with “remaining interval time” which in case Z2 serves also purpose of “remaining workout time” and original purpose for higher intensities. But this is minor complaint, I am actually planning specific routes for given time. Still tedious, though…
the funny part is i’ve made my own custom workouts over the past year (when I was still using TR) because there are gaps in their workouts, or at least gaps in sweet spot progression that I wanted to do
I’m personally annoyed by the fact that i should input my body weight every day. This beside the fact that only body weight is one of the parameter allowed. Nowadays with Garmin device there are many other parameter monitored (sleep, HRV, stress, …) that can be imported and included in the TR analysis to help to taylor trainings and athlete growth. Hope soon these parameters will be imported and included in the analysis.
I would launch the topic about Rouvy and TR integration. I read many user would be interested to run rouvy and have workout loaded in rouvy to spice up their ride. Me too. Rouvy is at the moment a cheaper platform than zwift and more funny. Would be nice to import workout planned in TR in rouvy perform it and give back to TR as completed to track the progress of trining
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Why do you have to do it every day? There’s some natural fluctuation everyday anyway and your workouts are based of FTP and not W/kg. I just input it once on set up and change it for significant/ constant weight change events. It would be nice if it was all integrated but its not crucial (not everyone has a fancy watch anyway and there’s some debate over the accuracy/ usefulness of readings), I’d rather TR focussed their efforts on the likes developing WL2 (the detailed analysis of outside rides).
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I get your point, but I thought of it more as the need for TR to integrate with more external apps, not just Rouvy . There are many who want TR to send our workouts (before we do them) to other apps so we can use them as our workout players and training planners. I do think this is a valuable use of their time.
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Of course is not about body weight. For sure all the parameter are an estimation but i think the algorithm improvement and the AI behind is giving a great boost to precision of data. A wearable is on the wrist of many athlete, not necessary thi-athlete, true also that not all have the same capabilities, but for those that have one it will be helpfull to get the most of benefit of this integrated data analysis. Exercise level and intensisty can be than better taylored to athlete condition (specially recover or stress status). Other training platform are starting to get them in cosideration only for feedback purposes, but the tendency from coaching is moving to widen the data to guide the athlete in their process of improving performance
I have a garmin fenix 7x that gives me all this data daily like training readiness, sleep score, stress score etc. I liked it at first but I just deleted all those things so I can’t see them. Maybe it’s only me but I had to get away from everything being scored or graded. I don’t need a watch to tell me that I slept bad.
I think these metrics can be useful but not enough to replace being in tune with your body and how you feel. As far as I know, there is no hard evidence to prove that HRV scores really even mean that much.
I could see it being useful in the future, but I don’t think all these metrics are really that great at this point in time.
Having everything in your life being scored on these wearables, I think, subconsciously it gets into some of our heads, making us think we should feel a certain way.
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Nobody on any app is inputting their body weight everyday, what kind of madness is this.
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I don’t disagree that collecting that data and making use of it for analysis to guide training is a good goal. It’s a good long term. Collecting the data is the easier part. IMO we are a long ways off from companies providing consistently accurate use of all of the health, workout, etc data for various devices. Whether it’s whoop, oura, garmin, polar, etc. nobody has truly been able to make full use of the data and be really good at guiding data. IMO it’s currently on a similar path as fully autonomous vehicles. In limited controlled scenarios it can maybe work but venture outside the boundaries and it goes a little haywire.
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Anybody with a smart scale is inputting their body weight to at least one app every time they weigh themselves, and for many that is every day. What benefit it would have to sync that data to TR is another thing.
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we are not talking about bodyweight only but a series of healt and training status indicator to guide in case the AI (example of TR) to taylor workload and create deviation from the original plan. Anyway TP and Fascat are doing that and this are only 2 i know.
Sure, but that isn’t the same thing as what seemed to be implied here…
No dog in this fight, but I don’t know of any app that requires you to input your body weight everyday…at least not manually.
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That’s why I have a traditional scale and it always says “low”…or maybe it’s a status of the battery? 
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This made me chuckle
I get where you’re going with this, and I agree that other apps are doing it…I’m just not sure there is evidence to show it means anything and should impact your day to day training plan. My personal experience (N-=1) is that HRV and RHR are more lagging indicators, and we’ve all had workouts where we slept terribly or had a low “body battery” but performed well (and vice versa). That being said, I do agree TR should be capturing it for future use if the evidence and guidance on proper usage becomes evident.
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I think something like a “How do I feel” question before the workout would be a great addition. e.g. yesterday I had a rest day and somehow felt like I was going to get sick. I slept a lot more than usual and feel a lot better today. I don´t feel as bad as not training at all but I don´t feel like doing my anaerobic 3.9 workout today. So something like How do I feel on a scale from 1-10 with 10 beging ultra fit/ready I would answer with a 5 today.
It would be really great if Trainerroad would then change my workout accordingly. Maybe an easier Anaerobic workout (because its my specialty phase) or if it thinks an even easier workout would be great maybe something like Lazy Mountain (easy recovery) or an endurance ride.
Yes I do need to feel for myself how ready I am or if I need rest - but it would be a nice addition to get an alternative according to my readiness/recovery level before the workout.