TR has been scheduling an endurance workout that consists of 75% intervals the day after my hard Threshold or VO2 workouts. I keep changing them to 30-60 min easy workouts 55-65%. I’m usually sore after my hard day since I’m also doing my strength training on those days. I thought you were supposed …

I’m on the Masters plan. 5 workout/week, 6-7 hrs. I followed their initial recommendations. I always give the feedback after a workout. Obviously the endurance workouts are always easy. I chose balanced on the slider. So far nobody has been able to explain why TR is putting 75% endurance workout…

What you’re recommending is pretty much what I’m doing. I still don’t understand why TR is putting a 60-75% endurance workout after my hard day of training? I have to keep changing it.

I was under the assumption that a short 50% workout after a hard day increases blood flow and helps recovery?

TR seems to progress endurance by increasing intensity right up to the top of z2 (there is a whole thread discussing PLs for endurance). Personally I recommend riding endurance to RPE and ignoring a set %. But this looks like you are already doing this. As for why TR ups the intensity rather than …

The explanation is that you’ve been completing the endurance workouts and marking them easy. This increases your progression levels and tells AT/RLGL that you can handle these workouts and the associated training load.

[image] Rockness: What you’re recommending is pretty much what I’m doing. I still don’t understand why TR is putting a 60-75% endurance workout after my hard day of training? I have to keep changing it. Everyone is different. Some need a full recovery day or day off after a hard workout. Most…

Well of course I can “handle” the endurance workouts and they are basically easy. I’m questioning if it’s the right thing to do after a hard day. Especially one that is 60-75%. I was figuring it wouldn’t do more than a short 50% workout after a hard day.

I think this comes back to a few things: TR has traditionally been geared towards “time crunched athletes.” It is limited to how much time the user says they have available to train compliance with workouts above 2 hrs is, from what I’ve read around the forum, low.

The prevailing theme around here seems to be the opposite of what you’re experiencing. Lots of people seem frustrated with RL/GL being too conservative and adapting workouts/plans to be too easy. I’ve found that to be the case myself, even with the slider moved to the right. So, I’d say if you’re no…

[image] Rockness: So far nobody has been able to explain why TR is putting 75% endurance workout after my hard day of training. I guess this isn’t a straightforward question nor do we have much to go on. My hard days don’t kill me, I can still gain from an endurance ride the next day most ti…

Where’s recovery workouts after a hard day?

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vhudacek February 6, 2025, 8:23pm 25

Yeah you can, I have a bunch saved: Feature request: Sync favorite workouts across platforms [RELEASED! ✅]

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Where’s recovery workouts after a hard day?

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