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.
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.
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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