Revisions to General Build

[arusoff]

I’ve just scheduled another block of General Build (mid vol) immediately following a prior block of the same. I’m very surprised to see the intensity of the workouts to be much lower than those of my past block. Here is an example of the difference I’m highlighting:

Old plan week 6 Tu/Th: Anaerobic 6.8 / Vo2 6.9
New plan week 6 Tu/Th: Vo2 4.0 / Threshold 4.6

As suspected, I’m finding the workouts to be VERY achievable under the new plan and worry that I’m not making productive use of my training time. For background, I am not part of the adaptive training beta.

Are others also wondering about this change?

[mcneese.chad]

This was introduced a while ago:

New Product Release! Updated Training Plans, Workout Levels, TrainNow Updates

When we announced Adaptive Training, we promised to roll out individual pieces once we felt they were ready, instead of doing a single big release of everything down the road. Today, we’re excited to release three significant new features from Adaptive Training to every TrainerRoad athlete! Updated Training Plans We’ve updated all 100 of our training plans using insights from our machine learning to improve the sustainability of progressions & ramp rates. In all, these insights resulted in ov…

I am pretty sure we have an existing thread discussing them as well, but can’t find it at the moment. I will link or merge when I find it.

Found the long discussion:

Losing faith with new TR plans

Hi all, long time TR mega-fan but… Just started (end of first week) the new version of SPBMV and was surprised at how little actual sustained work is in the program. Having just come off the back of the ‘old’ version of SSBMV and having reasonably comfortably completed workouts like Lemarck and Leconte plus the lengthy Over-Under workouts, SPBMV ‘new and improved’ seems an absolute walk in the park. Having reviewed the entire plan I am concerned about whether there are enough longer sessions in…

Please continue discussion in that area.