I know RLGL is trying to protect me from overdoing myself, but I’m confused by the approach sometimes.
For instance, today I had an endurance ride. It wasn’t pushing my progression levels, I did it as prescribed by the workout, and in the end it was easy (and I marked it as such)
But after the workout I got an adaptation pending message and RLGL wants to downgrade my vo2max workout tomorrow down to an endurance workout and market my day as a yellow:
But today wasn’t yellow for me and if I had known it was going to cost me the vo2 max workout I would have taken a rest day today to be able to do the vo2max tomorrow.
I’m not trying to come off like I’m complaining, I appreciate RLGL and it has def saved me from overdoing myself in the past, but this kind of unexpected workout downgrade has happened to me a number of times and it would be cool if I knew it was coming so I could keep the workouts that are more critical.
You have 2.5 hour walk plus 2.5 hour ride. Strength where you marked sets near failure and then 1 hour ride across 3 days.
The effort or feel today has nothing to do with the system highlighting you may be on the verge of some serious fatigue.
You also had a “fail” on a vo2 workout in the last week.
You can ignore it and just proceed if you think you are fine or dial it back. Notice it’s bumping up your SS a few days later so it’s not saying you’re not performing just trying to stop burn out.
Yeah I see what you mean, though a couple of questions: you said my vo2 last week was a fail and that my strength trainings were marked to fail. What are you seeing that shows that? I didn’t fail the vo2max (at least I didn’t think I did). I completed the workout. It was very hard but I didn’t think I failed it.
Also the strength training being marked near failure, what’s showing that? I just marked the number of sets.
But yeah I get your point that it’s not saying I’m not performing, it’s just trying to save me from burnout.
I think it’s hard for me in the moment right after a workout to see a downgrade like that and take it as a “keeping you good” vs a punishment (but that’s a me thing ).
Oh and yeah I know I can skip it. I’m not going to bc ultimately I know it’s helping me progress forward, just trying to figure out how to keep myself on the plan better and keep myself from doing too much.
Sorry it was the threshold one that says other which usually means it was a fail and you marked other as the reason vs say intensity or equipment.
For sets in strength TR only wants you to mark them if they were within a rep or so of failure. So it isn’t that you failed it’s that when you start to do lots of set to failure it’s going to ramp up how that triggers yellow and red days.
I have my approach slider set to demanding. I don’t want to go all the way up to the top because the description suggests only doing that for a short period of time, so it’s as demanding as I can get it.
Gotcha re: the failed threshold. Yeah that one was definitely a fail. It was due to bad nutrition timing, but still a fail for sure. Good to know. I thought there was something that I was missing about the VO2 max workout that made it a fail somehow
Also, that’s really good to know about the strength training sets! I went back and read the article about how to think about and annotate the workout results and yeah most of my sets are to fail and I lift pretty heavy, but all of the sets are to fail, so I’ve been marking them wrong for a while now. I was also counting the warm up sets for a bit, though. I stopped doing that a month or so ago. I’ll keep that in mind as I go forward.
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