Yes they did, I tarted using the free version of TrainerDay for this very reason, they have a very simple workout creator which you can library by folder, just export to TP the day you want, bit of faf but gets the job done
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I never asked before I left in a couple of years back, sorry. He was allowed under a coaches licence of TP to store a full catalogue of workouts.
Unless something has changed in the meantime, to my knowledge the Workout Creator is based on Adobe Flash, a technology that’s been literally dead (as in unsupported by Adobe) for several years now. Even before Adobe’s announcement that Flash will be EOL, it has been clear that Flash is dead and I’m really surprised TR hasn’t rewritten the Workout Creator from scratch with something newer in the meantime.
(Yes, I’m aware it might not be customer-facing software, but to my understanding TR uses Workout Creator itself to, well, create workouts.)
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I always assumed it was my computer that didn’t play nice with WC, now I see I’m not alone.
One would guess that the future of AI will allow us to see the predictive “fitness” or “training levels”, which means that you’re going to want to input future workouts, to predict where it will take your fitness. Currently TR does this all behind the scenes.
All of TR workouts have really non-descript names, so it will become increasingly annoying to try to find the workouts that you can plan for the future. Much easier to build a workout and call it “3x10 minutes @92%”. AI is great for recommendations, but sometimes it’s just nice to keep it simple.
Completely agree on the uselessness of the workout creator. Pretty much every other app/website that I’ve used (even free ones such as intervals.icu) has a much better and easier to use workout creator, it’s one of the reasons I cancelled my TR subscription, as others have said finding a simple workout such as 2 x 20 sweetspot in TR isn’t that easy due to the naming of workouts, plus the TR workouts tend to have varying ranges, many of the sweetspot workouts for example have 2 minutes at 88% then a minute at 94% etc, whilst I prefer to use a set percentage and build my time at that percentage over a number of workouts.
Given how long it seems to be taking to shoehorn outside rides into the TR ecosystem, I do think a diversion away from that to implement a new workout creator for everyone would be time well spent.
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