We’re starting external testing of Red Light Green Light (RLGL) and we need your help!
RLGL is a feature of Adaptive Training. It warns you BEFORE you dig yourself into a hole and then suggests adaptations to your training to make sure you don’t fall into it!
Here’s some training I did back in 2019 that was pushing me over the edge. You can see how RLGL would have warned me.
You don’t even need to be on a TR training plan or even be training inside! You just need a power meter on your bike (even works with just HR but the accuracy won’t be as high).
That means you could be doing 100% of your training outside, not use a TR plan, and still get warnings of “yellow” and “red” days with suggested changes to your training.
We’re looking for athletes who have ever felt burnt out and are comfortable with us sharing their training calendar/rides on the forum, podcast, and other marketing channels.
We’ll review your training, see how RLGL would have impacted your training, and make suggestions and point out improvements. We won’t share your real name.
We might make this a series that showcases RLGL but also helps identify common training mistakes.
We especially want people who have posted on the forum that TR has burnt you out.
You should post this on R/Velo. Seems like there are a lot of people there that complain about getting burned out in TR. might get some of them to sign up.
Another cool part about this is it should automatically catch athletes who pick a plan that has too much volume for them. They will start to get yellow/red days and the plan will adapt down.
Future plan is to put it in plan builder. That way we can suggest a training plan that won’t give you yellow/red days!
We’ll probably also add a setting to say how “aggressive” you want to be with training. Like if you want to really push the envelope at the risk of being close to the edge.
For those who like to play with fire.
Then have a setting for a more gentle approach for those who might be starting a new job, new parent, or other life stress where they don’t want to limit training fatigue.
Dude, so check it, Chad’s usually out there on the mountain trails, right?
Just shredding it like a total king, his shrediness signal is usually blasting off the charts. But today, man, it’s like his signal’s a bit fuzzy, not hitting those epic peaks we’re all stoked to see.
Maybe the trails are throwing some gnarly curveballs, or his vibe’s just on a chill mode.
But hey, every rider hits a rough patch where the path’s rocky but their spirit’s just cruising. Just gotta keep those wheels spinning, catch the next wild downhill, and amp up that shrediness signal again.
Chad’s gonna tune back in and tear up those trails like a legend, no doubt. It’s all about riding the wave of the trail, am I right?
Here’s to me cursing the fact that I haven’t had anything close to a “burnout” since AT and other changes over the recent years. Not sure I’ve had more than a few workouts as All-Out or straight up bails that were Fatigue based in the last 2-3 years. Likely not a great candidate for the current phase of testing so I will wait for the next release, dangit
The interesting thing is you can still do a ride on a yellow/red day. But…you’re going to be impacted in the future.
I was just looking at an account where an athlete tried over and over on red days (both TR and Zwift rides) and they ended up quitting cycling (at least for a while)!
So although you can complete the workout, the real question is SHOULD you be completing that workout?
Not sure I’ve had more than a few workouts as All-Out or straight up bails that were Fatigue based in the last 2-3 years. Likely not a great candidate for the current phase of testing so I will wait for the next release, dangit 
