I gotta ask, with no malice, but ignoring the sadness of the number decreasing have you actually tried using the workouts set? I’d have thought giving it a couple weeks to see how the workouts feel would be wise, unless of course there’s a feature elsewhere you specifically want. This covers a lot of the comments but you were the most recent so not picking you out btw.
I was one of the people with a drop (218w to 209w beta and now 210w on GA) and was a bit annoyed it was the lowest in a couple years, but all the v02 and threshold workouts have been spot on since.
A lot of “failed” workouts as in workouts not completed with them rated as fatigue.
seems like you’re not recovered enough to complete your workouts at stated AIFTP and the system is picking that up and adjusting the intensity down. This dropping intensity is to help you get back on track and complete workouts then build up from there.
In my peak last year I had an LT2 of 400W (I think approx FTP). I’ve clearly detrained over Christmas, but now AI pegs me at 317, with a forecast increase to 333 in a month. I don’t really mind which number it is, but I’m curious how it’ll develop over time, especially when my season starts in April.
My FTP was 211 for some time. I have been taking it easy due to an injury the last few weeks. I kept getting app notification that AIFTP needed to adjust. So it recommended that I switch from 211 to 190. I accepted it. A few days later, this new AI switched me from 190 to 159 lol. So I “lost” 50 W in a span of a few days lol. I don’t see how this new system is accurate. Oh and AI FTP prediction says I’ll be at 138 in 28 days because I have nothing planned lol
so someone who doesn’t do anything for a month is expected to lose 80W or 50% of FTP? Does that make sense? Because 211 to 130 in a month is a big jump.
I’d expect the system to drop your FTP. You’ve done nothing to show the model any evidence to support a higher number. It’s doing what you’d want it to do.
This makes sense, then. I realise you’ve been injured, and that’s unfortunate, but as it’s meant no intensity for over two months (or three and a half, if you’re looking at the drop to the future prediction) it’s no surprise you’re losing threshold fitness. You need to spend some time at or close to that zone to maintain it - a low level of easy endurance won’t do it. If nothing else, just look at your TSS graph, since that 211 FTP detection you’re doing barely a quarter of what you were before.
Yes, there’s been a change in the measurement basis of AIFTP, which dropped you from 190 to 159, but I’d see that as the system putting you at a level where it thinks it can give you the best workouts to get you back on track.
I’d suggest adopting a training plan for the next few months - assuming you’re now able to train again - and see how the workouts feel, and how your predictions look a) after putting a plan in your calendar and b) after completing the first month’s work.
Trainer Road’s explanation makes no sense. It’s not like gettIng a new bathroom scale. They sold us the old scale and the new scale. They are now saying that their old scale was defective, so why should we trust the new scale?
if my bathroom scale was defective, then I would get a new one from a different manufacturer. Is this what we should be doing?
