I donāt think Iām on a high fitness levelā¦ and now that Iāve removed the constraints (and also switched from setting my own hours to letting Athletica decide) I am remembering a bit more about why I set the constraints originally and can clarify a bit more. I donāt believe that I had run sessions over 2 hours, but that I had days of over 2 hours of training. Such as a 1 hour 45 minute run plus 30 minutes of strength and conditioning.
So far, things are looking ok with the current plan - there were no significant changes. A couple of runs are now over 90 minutes, but only by a minute or two. And I have another couple of days with a run over an hour plus a strength and conditioning sessions, but both of those are at or under 1 hour and 40 minutes for combined time. Iāll leave it as it is and report back if anything changes. And Iāll be keeping an eye on my next training cycle to see how things go without constraints when the cycle is initially created.
Iāve removed the weekend time limits. Iāll see what happens over the next few weeks. Iām currently in the fine-tuning phase for a preparation race. Iāll keep you posted.
Otherwise Iāll be doing the Ironlakes in France (Champagne)
Great news then! This makes more sense. S&C are important and even if time seems like itās running away, consider doing some Strength work while watching kids, tv or doing your social media updates Anything counts Progress, not perfection
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Removing swimming from 4 days per week (clicking twice) reduces the rating from green to orange ā Settings are workable. Fewer limits may helpā
Removing swimming from 6 or 7 days of the week reduces the rating to red āToo many constraints. AI plan quality may suffer.ā
Thatās what I had before, then I removed all constraints to improve AI plan quality. What is the best option to go forward without sacrificing plan quality and not having a couple of swims scheduled every week that Iām definitely not going to do?
A little additional feedback after letting the program run for a while. I still get this strange message about 5 constraints when Iāve only indicated 4. This turns the light from green to orange. These 4 constraints are essential so that I donāt get a swimming workout that I canāt do anyway. Iāve tried taking them out and putting them back in to see how the count changes, but it has no effect on the result.
So far itās only a couple of runs that are over 95 minutes, but two weeks ago none were over 95 minutes.
I can work with a 70 minute run and a 30 minute S&C session by, as you say, overlapping some activities. But if the run durations continue to slowly climb Iāll have to trim them back. Which is what I was hoping to use Constraints for.
For now this is manageable. I can work with my plan as it is. Just giving feedback that, in my opinion, setting a 90 minute constraint on all 7 days should not trigger a āToo many constraintsā message, especially for a mid-volume 10k plan.
Hi guys, I would like to dedicate more long sessions but single sessions and no longer 2/3 disciplines in one day.
Monday Pool Strength
Tuesday Cycling long run
Wednesday Long Run Pool air
Thursday Cycling
Friday Long Pool Strength
Saturday combined
Sunday Running
If you select only these disciplines it gives me Constraint RED. What do I do?
The podcast the other day did a good job explaining how the ai plan constraints red light green light worked and I think you could save some confusion by adding that description below it or in a help box.
Saying that the full green was really for a retired person with no constraints and that a lower level doesnāt mean you wonāt be able to get a good plan was helpful to know.
Anything counts 
Progress, not perfection
