TrainNow is recommending wildly different workout levels

[nick]

@northshore

TrainNow has recently been recommending workouts way above my current progression levels. Has anyone else experienced this?

My current anaerobic is a level 1.0, and the other day the suggested workout was Osceola, a 9.5 anaerobic level. When I refreshed the suggested workouts, it would bounce between workouts of a level 9-10, and occasionally a workout of 1.5 would show up.

There’s two parts to this:

1. After shuffling workouts, TrainNow can recommend big differences in Workout Levels (this is an issue )
2. TrainNow can recommend big jumps in Workout Levels (this is working as intended)

For #1, there’s an issue with the shuffle button that we’re looking into. Thanks for reporting this — I’ll report back when we’re back in action.

For #2, we updated TrainNow to use a machine-learning model to recommend workouts. Probably best to reference Nate’s post for details (linked above), but the TLDR is TrainNow is using a new machine-learning workout recommendation engine that the data shows will more accurately predict workouts that you’re capable of, regardless of your current PL.