Which training apps are adaptive?

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Lol someone stated in a thread that they had an ftp of almost 5 w/kg on 3-5 hours of training a week.

It’s the old problem of teaching to the test in school, surrogation in business… TSS is similar IMO.

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When self-coaching I don’t charge myself! Cheaper than an app. And I for one learned a LOT from my coach.

The original question was an adaptive training plan, which suggests upcoming workouts based on all the riding you do (structured or unstructured). My Garmin 840 suggests stuff, looks reasonable to my eyes, and I might tweak the workouts as I see fit. Years ago I played with Xert and I thought it suggests workouts based on what you did rather than what was planned. Played around with JOIN and it looked reasonable too and adapted upcoming workouts based on what I did rather than what was planned.

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Thanks for that. Didn’t realize you were the same person!

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But you could do outside workouts as part of your commute, or match a commute to a workout? I do the latter, which while is against the official advice, I do try to keep my commutes at endurance HR (no power meter on the commuter). TSS + matching with a workout should see adaptive training take it into account afaik.

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Yes, to a degree. E. g. if you did your commutes in Z2 and assuming they are short (say, under 60 minutes), then these rides would not impact the training plan as those would not raise your endurance PL.

At least in my experience, commuter kilometers don’t impact my training very much. What does, though, are long, free rides on the weekend. You could try to associate them with suitable workouts. That does work for e. g. endurance workouts. But if the rides include intensity, it gets hard for AT to figure out the impact. Which is why TrainerRoad hasn’t released its v2.0 scoring algorithm to the public.

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