Doing a "sweep" of all your levels

[Dylan_van_Green]

Oh I see.

This post and the whole (but short) thread has some useful info on how the PLs work, I found this interesting:

https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/increasing-ftp-v-working-up-through-the-pls/69488/3?u=dylan_van_green

To the other point

@BT-7274

Frankly, experienced cyclists should not be doing workouts below a level four or so, assuming their FTP is accurate.

I think TrainerRoad is telling you they don’t agree. On this, I also thought this post and (again short) thread was a good read (there are probably lots of others):

Reviewing the new TR plan...rolling road race

A little late to the game here since I didn’t want to say anything until the plan was actually done. Since the new plans were just released & a stage race was just completed I decided to use mid-volume Rolling Road Race to train for my next event: A flattish 50 mile gravel race. My training is in that ‘tweener’ zone where mid volume really isn’t enough work for me but high volume is totally beyond the pale. Usually a mid-vol plan gets scheduled and then I’ll fill it in with quite a bit more …

You can manually adjust FTP but not the progression levels. Doing the sweep sounds like doing a series of very hard workouts as a means of ‘manually’ adjusting the PLs. Seems like you could achieve the same thing and get the PLs changed to your satisfaction by just manually lowering your FTP by 20/30w or so. It looks like from what was posted above that TR would then adjust the PLs up, so you would be served those level of workouts in the plans and get to use all the adaptive stuff going forward.

If you know what you want, you can ignore the progression levels and the workout levels, programme for yourself from the workout library. But if you think there’s any benefit to this adaptive stuff and you want to make use of it, you need to stay broadly within the TR ‘system’.