I encountered a confusing situation on my calendar for my scheduled session on Dec 17. I am receiving two contradictory messages for the exact same workout:
The Session Warning (Red Triangle): It states that my “Fitness and fatigue is not optimal” and warns of a “high risk of overtraining,” suggesting I move or delete sessions.
The Reason for Change: However, the session details indicate an “Increase in training load to ensure progressive overload.”
My Question: It seems the adaptive planner wants to push me harder (Progressive Overload), but the safety monitor is flagging that I am too fatigued. Which recommendation takes precedence in the algorithm logic? Given the “High Risk” warning, should I manually delete this session, or is the “Progressive Overload” calculation overriding the fatigue warning?
I’d say listening to your body is the main thing. If you feel a bit tired then reduce (The workout wizard can help with this) or remove the session. If you feel okay then crack on.
It can also be good to move the session back a day (as long as you don’t think it will have too much impact on further training.
Same issue here. It would be interesting to get some official feedback here.
I am currently training for an 82 km ultra marathon, and overload and constant fatigue definitely make sense. On the other hand, I don’t want to push myself too hard and end up with an injury.
Since I have no experience with such a distance, I would like to feel confident about following the plan.
I do brevets which are non competitive cycling events at ultra distance (200km up).
In theory for optimal training you have a form between -10 to -30. After one of my build up 210km events in January, my form was -49. I walked the next couple of days, before a low intensity bike session..
We joke amongst ourselves that ultra distances means being in a perpetual state over overtraining.
But my general rule of thumb is to avoid high intensity when my form is too low. Either you will struggle to hit the required intensities for the number of intervals or there is a risk of injury. Both are unproductive with the latter being worse if it keeps you from training for a period.
You do need to build some fatigue resistance but i would say that is longer lower intensity sessions on back to back days. Try to do the higher intensity work when freshest during the week.
Thus if you have got risk of overtraining with high intensity I would move it later in week and swap in something lower intensity.
