u/Chimera-5

I love my Fitbit Air for it's passive tracking abilities. It's stylish, fits well, and is unobtrusive on my wrist. That said, the AI Coach is awful. It regularly misinterprets simple commands and makes sweeping generalizations that are useless AI slop. Today I cut and pasted a workout I created and asked the Coach to put it in my workout files. At the gym, I started the workout only to realize it changed the exercises from what I cut and pasted. It's beyond frustrating when a poorly designed AI program decides to alter my work without my consent and then doesn't tell me it changed things. At this point, the only reason I don't turn the AI Coach off is because I like using it to log meals, although I constantly have to monitor that function for errors, too. Maybe I will just turn it off to save myself the frustration and unpaid labor I provide to train Fitbit's for profit model.

I used trainer road about six or seven years ago and then went away from it. Last month I decided to give it a go again.

TR detected an FTP of 197. I did the majority of the scheduled workouts except for one week during a base building camp, where I did a lot of volume but not intensity.

My new FTP is 215, an ~8% increase. During the month, TR estimated a high of 224 and a low of 209 before settling on 215 yesterday.

Right now, the new 28-day estimate is 215-->230. That seems reasonable given my historical FTPs of ~195 to ~250, depending upon training consistency.

I love the new platform and flexibility. The interface is really good and makes sense, although TR sometimes throws me a curve when it changes future training based on a completed workout--when I already had the previous schedule set in my mind.

I am excited to see if I can reach my historical best FTP or better it.

Hi folks. I have this workout on my calendar today. It's 3 sets of 50" on with 30" off at 125-135% of FTP. I did a similar workout using ERG last week with good results. I am thinking about doing today's outside on a flat course that has no stops. Does anyone have experience or recommendactions for doing these workouts indoors vs outdoors? Thanks!

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Yesterday I switched a Bird VO2 max workout from 1.5 hours to 1 hour. The only change was dropping 30 min of Z2 post intervals. I successfully completed the workout on Zwift, earning a star for every segment by hitting targeted power. I marked the workout as "hard," a 7/10 on the RPE scale.

Prior to the workout TR showed my estimated FTP for Jul 1 from 197-->224. After uploading the completed workout, it showed 197-->214. Not a huge deal as I believe performance trumps prediction. However, I was surprised that reducing 30 min of Z2 caused such a big drop, if that's the cause. Does anyone have experience or opinions on why the drop?

My other thought is there is something deeper in my recent training history that led to the drop, like how Training Peaks has a 42-day rolling TSS average, and at day 43 rides "fall off" and don't figure into calculations.

Yesterday I skipped a VO2 max workout because I was traveling to a vacation/training camp. Today, I awoke and logged into TR to see that after the skipped workout, TR went from an 11% predicted FTP increase to a 13% FTP increase. Anyone have experience with this or a possible explanation?

This podcast will probably generate a lot of knee jerk responses. However, I think it brings up some interesting nuances about the fueling debate around the amount of carbohydrates that have swung upwards of 120 g of carbs an hour, mostly using World Tour pros as exemplars. I feel like optimal carbohydrate consumption varies greatly between individuals, depending upon their physiology and the events they are training for.

I recently came back to TR after exploring different training systems over the last 6 years. I love the new app integrations and the ability to push workouts outside and to Zwift.

Next week, I am going on a vacation/training camp. I usually try to log lots of TSS during that week and do not do structured workouts. I typically end up with 200-300 (at least) more TSS than my average for the week.

My question is how to make adjustments to my current TR plan, which targets the Death Ride in July. For my week-long camp, should I just do my rides and let those replace my scheduled workouts, or should I find workouts that have similar TSS totals for the week? Keeping in mind none of the rides I do will be structured.

Thanks!