Feature request for adding Zone 2 time to workout

[drafeedie]

I love TR and the workouts created by Coach Chad and the TR team. The podcasts are wonderful and have added so much to my cycling and training knowledge base. The foursome of Amber, Jonathan, Nate and Chad make a great team. I’m so glad to have discovered TR.
I’ve been using the TR program since Jan and there are a couple of features I’d love to see added to the workouts:

1. A button to add Zone 2 time at the end of the workout. Currently, the buttons allow us to add time to the cooldown but the watts are way lower than Z2 watts and usually are ramping downward. During a recent podcast Coach Chad mentioned that adding 10-15 minutes of Z2 work at the end of each ride was a great way to increase TSS during the week. I would love to have an easy way to do this.
2. A button to extend any interval. It would be nice to be able to extend any interval during the ride, working or recovery, by a minute.
   I’ve got more but these would be great to see.

[martinheadon]

@drafeedie

A button to add Zone 2 time at the end of the workout. Currently, the buttons allow us to add time to the cooldown but the watts are way lower than Z2 watts and usually are ramping downward. During a recent podcast Coach Chad mentioned that adding 10-15 minutes of Z2 work at the end of each ride was a great way to increase TSS during the week. I would love to have an easy way to do this.

+1. I find that “extend cooldown” isn’t the magic button it’s made out to be. You have to hit the up arrow about 60 times sometimes to get to where you want to be.

[achase6002]

Yep or add it to the intensity setting. Something better than tapping the up button 50 times lol

[Klaw]

+1 here. I normally add zone 2 at the end of the workout but find that having to increase the intensity to +180% in order to hit the target power. Could TR make it an option to increase the intensity to a % of FTP? would allow us to add additional intervals/extra zone 2

[mcalista]

Given the number of times the podcast has advocated adding Z2 time at the end of workouts, this seems like a great (and simple) idea.

[mcneese.chad]

Existing request that is related.

Continuous Press, Quick Intensity Adjustment [Feature Request]

On the mobile app, you press the (+) or (-) button to increase or decrease the Intensity, which works well enough in general. It makes it one percent jump per press. But if you want to make bigger changes, it takes lots of presses to make big swings (like + or - 100 in some cases) to extended cool-downs and turn them into “endurance” intensity and length. I did that very thing this weekend to add 20 minutes of endurance at the end of a SS ride. I had to press the button 100 times to get to …

[kevistraining]

Was going to request this but see it’s been asked for before - maybe with the mobile apps being in beta now would be a good time?

I’d like some “add Z2” buttons as well or instead of the extend warm-down buttons.

[Zissou]

I’d like an ‘add Z6’ button next to the Cooldown button just to spice up the post ride tension when tired

[IvyAudrain]

Bumped to team! Thanks!

[RobertSims]

Why not just extend warm up and take it out of ERG mode…you have got the control to ride at any power want then!

[IvyAudrain]

You can also increase the intensity once you’re there too, but we definitely empathize with athletes that you may want to add a certain zone, not everyone knows their exact ranges of the top of their heads post-workout, holding down the ‘increase intensity’ key can be arduous at times. I can see how it could be useful for sure, but I agree there are shortcuts, just could be easier!

[kevistraining]

@IvyAudrain

holding down the ‘increase intensity’ key can be arduous at times.

Yeah it’s mainly this but I also don’t like how changing the intensity messes up the nice pretty yellow and blue graph I’ve just bust a gut to get perfect! I know when you upload it then it goes back to normal.

I like @RobertSims idea regarding just taking it out of ERG mode - hadn’t thought of that.