Did Monadnock -2 on Tuesday, and followed the instructions in the “workout goals”:
”Important: Try to settle on a demanding but repeatable power output such that you can finish as many intervals as possible. The goal is to accumulate a productive level of stress at a high level of intensity while avoiding the need to frequently quit intervals early.”
As instructed i adjusted the intensity, and marked the workout very hard, in response AI FTP detection went down by a couple of watts, I tinkered about and changed the response to moderate and my watt estimate bounced back.
**What I’m essentially wondering is, should you do the workouts as prescribed, not changing intensity, for optimal progress? Seeing Trainerroad AI prescribed the workout based on what wattage i could manage. **
My hypothesis: I increased intensity on the intervals and were getting credit for anaerobic work (which the workout shouldn’t have), bringing in extra fatigue that I would carry into my next workout 2 days later.
If you increase the intensity because the workout is too easy, you shouldn’t mark it very hard. The “very hard” is what is used by the AI to predict the outcome of future workouts. If I felt the need to increase the intensity of a workout, I might say it was somewhat hard or easy depending on how hard I thought it would have been.
And going out on a limb a bit because I haven’t read all the FAQs, but I don’t think TrainerRoad evaluates your workout differently because you changed the intensity or increased the warm up or cool down. I think it just uses it’s Image Recognition tool to determine if you struggled or not and then uses the underlying workout’s base scores coupled with the survey to determine next steps.
This is not correct. You should rate the work actually done, not what was initially planned. This is even more important now that the new Ai to a greater extent looks at the work actually done.
For that type of workout, I’d just follow along. If that workout wasn’t hard, let us know with an honest survey response, and we’ll make adjustments down the road.
