This announcement was for the Early Access release of Red Light Green Light.
For continued discussion of Red Light Green Light, please refer to the new thread of the production release here: Red Light Green Light is now released to all TrainerRoad athletes! 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉
Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of a new TrainerRoad feature that will change the way you train: Red Light Green Light (or RLGL)! This new feature will track your training fatigue, show you when you’re overdoing it, and offer smart adaptations to your training plan to prevent long-term fatigue. That includes a new type of adaptation: Rest Days!
We’re launching to Early Access first—we want your feedback.
What is Red Light Green Light?
Red Light Green Light is a new feature that integrates directly with Adaptive Training and your Calendar. It looks at your recent and long term training history, assesses your fatigue level, and adapts your training accordingly.
Think of it like the old playground game and namesake, or like a traffic light. When you’re pushing the envelope a bit too far, RLGL will tell you to slow down or come to a brief stop.
How Does It Work?
After enabling RLGL from the Early Access screen, you’ll start seeing red and yellow days appear on your Calendar. Go ahead and scroll backwards to times in the past when you’ve trained or ridden a lot if you want to get a glimpse of how RLGL might’ve affected your training before.
Yellow days show up when you’re starting to move into that “potentially unproductive” territory. You might have stacked a couple of intense days in a row without adequate recovery, or added some unexpected volume from an outside ride. Workouts scheduled on a yellow day will adapt down to an Endurance workout.
Reducing the intensity of your yellow days will get you back on track to successful and productive training.
Sometimes, you may need more than an Endurance workout. That’s where red days come in…
Red days will show on your Calendar after you’ve either dug too deep or have done too much.Workouts scheduled on red days will adapt to Rest Days.
When you’ve gone into the red, more training stress won’t be beneficial—in fact, it might even set you back. That’s why we’ll adapt your calendar to a Rest Day. You’ve earned it!
Why Red Light Green Light?
Sometimes, it’s hard to know when you’re fatigued. Fatigue can build up over time, and by the time you notice it, it may be too late. Red Light Green Light was developed to prevent you from getting into a state of unproductive long-term fatigue. Your training should always be aligned with your capacity to recover, and RLGL does that. Now you not only know when your training fatigue is building up unproductively, but you also get personalized recommendations on how to handle it and get back on track.
Enabling Red Light Green Light
Go to the Early Access section in your profile: Log In to TrainerRoad
There you’ll see a Red Light Green Light section. Go ahead and enable it. From there, you’ll start seeing yellow and red days on your Calendar (even in the past - have a look at your past training!) and will start getting adaptations as RLGL works moving forward!
We’re so excited to share this with you and I’m so proud of our team for building this new feature. I really think it’ll change the way you train and help you get faster.
If you’ve got any feedback or run into any bugs, please discuss in this post or reach out to me. You can also email support@trainerroad.com!
Check out the Help Center article for more information, including FAQs, here: https://support.trainerroad.com/hc/en-us/articles/20753792083995
Thanks very much!
