u/Chimera-5

Reason #25433 that Huberman is untrustworthy. See first comment for link.

I have a big group ride coming up on a Saturday. My usual calendar has threshold work on Saturdays. I'm wondering if people tend to just let the group ride replace the threshold ride or if the delete the threshold ride in the calendar? The issue I'm concerned about is when I have replaced workouts with group rides it seems to negatively affect FTP prediction. In this case, I will actually end up with a lot more time at threshold than I would in the workout. However, TR's group ride metric in the calendar is not a great tool.

My local stores in Nevada have only a few options, i.e. Athletic, Heineken, Peroni, Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada, Guinness, Michelob, etc. I am interested in trying some smaller brewery offerings. Any suggestions?

I recently came back to Trainerroad after about a six year absence. Overall, i feel like the app has improved quite a bit. I feel like it gives me more control over my training.And the a I prediction , does a reasonably good job so far. However, what i don't like is if you're building your training plan out, and I am a masters athlete, it does not do a good job of managing intensity. For instance, this week I have two local club races , one on tuesday , and one on thursday and trainer road is keeping my saturday threshold in the calendar as of now, which is a problem. I replaced it with an endurance workout, but i feel like when I do that AI automatically downgrades my FTP prediction. In addition, because I like to have a calendar laid out and my events planned.I created a calendar through the beginning of next year and after my last a race this year, which is next month. For some reason, Trainerroad is giving me three intensity workouts a week instead of two. I have spoken with support , and it's a bug in the program , and it's nothing that I did. However, like I mentioned, when I manually adjust what it has in there, it messes with my FTP prediction. I wish trainer road didn't place so much emphasis on the structured workouts, progression and looked at it other ways because I do a lot of outside workouts, I do a lot of races, and I feel like when I do those things my FTP prediction drops quite a bit.

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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.