All, our very own @JesseFortson just posted up a fantastic blog article with a useful step-by-step rundown of how to use Adaptive Training, as well as some common FAQs and helpful links. Weāll be linking this into the onboarding for new athletes but I wanted to make sure youāre all aware of the resource. It will be updated as we go and as things changeā check it out!
Did they eliminate the āchecking for Adaptationsā animations on the laptop. No longer seeing it, just curious.
Itās been brought up and answered here:
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Hi, sorry but i canāt find this information anywhere,
I am looking at TrainNow and the classification of each Work, āProductiveā, āAchievableā and i would like to know the definition of eachā¦ does anybody have these or a link
Many thanks
Follow the blog link posted by @SeanHurley a few posts above - thereās a section headed āDifficulty Levelsā that should tell you all you need to know.
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Great just what I want thanks
Random Q, not sure if this is the best place for it - I stuck in a Plan Builder plan before I got onto AT just so it would work with AT, but my goal event currently isnāt a race, just a sportive (Rapha Prestige in mid August, which I set as Climbing Road Race as itās going to be very hillyā¦).
Iāve just bought an MTB and looking at entering some endurance races. Thereās a 6 hour towards the end of September which thought I might have a go at as an introduction; I would like to do some longer 12 or 24 hour ones but I canāt find one that fits around other commitments (and I would like a shorter practice event anyway since I havenāt ridden a 12 hour since 2009, when I was 21ā¦)
Ideally I would set the race as my new A event, downgrade the sportive to a B event (I still want to have a good day out and itāll be a hard route)
Whatās the best approach for changing my plan halfway through? Should I just set a new plan backdated to when I started this one, with a new goal event and altered A/B race categories? Or delete and start from a clean slate?
For info, I set this one on May 9th, so I am a little way in. Current target event is 15th August, new one would be 26th September. Currently in a recovery week although itās a bit superfluous as I was away last week and had a pretty low TSS.
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In a similar-ish situation recently, I just deleted the old plan (and the old event, in my case) and generated a new plan, backdated appropriately to get it to align. Though, this approach was influenced by my past failures trying to amend much through PB due to the amount of manual plan customisation* Iād have done.
*With AT, this another bonus for me: Iām not bothering to customise my plan after PB first generates it, in the way that I used to:
- thatās partly so that I donāt disassociate the workouts from the plan, and thus preventing them from being considered for adaptations;
- but largely itās because Iāve quickly found Iām happy to hand over responsibility to the machine to adjust my plan as required.
That latter point is a big deal for me as I commonly/periodically have interruptions to my plan for a variety of reasons. Instead of me attempting to adjust and micro-manage the plan I now just leave it alone, increasingly confident that the Progression Level system will ensure Iām given an appropriate level of workout once the interruption has passed. Less hassle, less āadminā, less guesswork: very happy so far.
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FWIW, for an event like that Iād consider doing Century speciality phase instead of Climbing Road Race: the latter has additional VO2max work/week, to do deal with attacking type efforts, which on your sportive youād not be expecting from your fellow ride buddies. Your event ride would likely benefit from a better sustained power focus for those long climbs youāll be doing all day.
I setup a simple Google spreadsheet to track changes in my PLs because I was curious. I do not believe TR has any graphs or analytics developed but I would think they are recording the level changes to troubleshoot / develop AT. Will post screen shots in a little bit.
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Yeah, I did think about that - Iāve done the old (pre-Plan Builder, pre-AT modifications) Century plan before with a similar goal.
But without wanting to sound bigheaded, Iām doing it with 3 other guys (itās supposed to be āteamsā of 4) and I am comfortably faster than 2 of them as it is - and short power is a weakness of mine which Iāve been trying to improve, so I chose a bit more VO2.
If I was readjusting the plan I would need to think about what to class the 6 hour MTB race as, because I have never really looked at the off-road plans before. XC Marathon seems to be the obvious choice.
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Sounds like youāve thought it through!
FWIW Iāve previously used the XC Marathon plan (as an alternative to Century) as prep for a road cycling Alps trip for its emphasis on sustained threshold-ish efforts like you do on those great big climbs if youāre riding them as a āchallengeā, ie. without the pace changes of racing. So probably not bad prep for a hilly Sportive type thing either.
Apologies to Chad for any OT stuff! 
successfully shifted my Saturday workout to today (I did the change today and not in advance based on some advice I had seen around here). Going to do the Sunday workout tomorrow so cramming in a lot of work lol Next weekās training is going to be cobbling together a mix of a stages spin bike in a gym (cooling is going to suuuck) and borrowing an in-laws cheapo bike for easier riding, although I am thinking of bringing my assioma pedals to use on said cheapo bike, which will be quite the sight
@kitenski here are the two charts Iāve created to graphically show changes in my PLs. The first is a TR-style bar chart for each PL, with the most recent at the bottom and the oldest at the top of each group. The second is a Garmin Connect themed line chart showing the same data.
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I had to miss my Sunday SS workout yesterday, as i was helping my son out with renovations, but this has caused some unwanted recommended changes to my plan from AT.
I created an annotation for āTime Offā for the day and selected āDonāt Adapt My Planā as this is any easy workout for the week in SSB MV2 and I had done an extra unstructured ride on Saturday. The intent is to box on with the plan with no changes given +1 offset by -1. I left the uncompleted workout on the Calendar. I left the incomplete workout on the calendar.
This morning i have āAdaptations to Previewā and AT wants to peg future Sundayās SS workouts to be easier. I donāt need that as the Sunday SS doesnāt get adapted upwards and they are already well below by PL for SS.
I will select āDonāt Adapt My Planā, but is there a better way to treat the day off in the calendar than I have done, which would have avoided the Adaptations being recommended?
Will the Adaptations rejected reappear again and potentially end up creating a situation where i have some adaptations i wish to accept and others that i donāt? If this occurs, can i accept or decline adaptations selectively?
Where is this chart in Garmin connect?
thnaks
@Westonite it is not in Connect. I built it manually in Google Sheets but choose the color scheme to match Garmin Connect, hence the āConnect themeā in the previous post. Sorry for any confusion (hopes) that someone else has actually implemented this yet.
Is there a way to force AT or PB to inject a recovery week? Iām half way through SSB-HV II and my legs are cooked.
My next A event is a solo ride in the fall so I have some flexibility to shift it one week later, which should force AT / PB to add a week, which I can turn into a recovery week.
I could also just not do the prescribed workouts this week and let AT adapt the plan.
Thoughts? Experiences?
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I suppose the most obvious option would be to add a time off annotation in this week and then allow AT to adapt the plan on that basis? If you do that and it doesnāt work, you should at least be able to delete the time off annotation and it should reset back to how it wasā¦
Iāve found the time off adaptations to be not that useful though, I have tried it twice and the first time Iāve ended up with a rest week straight into a week off, then second time a week off straight into rest week, which doesnāt make a whole lot of sense. I would rather it treat my holidays as rest weeks and keep the work weeks - which is what I would do if I was adapting the plan myself, but you canāt move the workouts around because it breaks the link to Plan Builder/ATā¦
An option to make AT treat the time off as a rest week might be quite helpful (maybe only in certain cases, I guess it wouldnāt make sense for illness).
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Has there been any progress on incorporating strava linked outside rides into updating the progression levels?