From the 8th March, 2026 to 13th March, 2026, I missed all my workouts due to flu. I am currently preparing for my first Hyrox in April 2026 using high volume build. I felt a little better today, i.e. 14th March, 2026 and did my own full body strength workout. Despite having missed all the Hyrox workouts between 8th March, 2026 to 13th March, 2026, Athletica.ai coach hasn’t made any modifications to my workouts in the week from 16th March to 21st March. Note that I only deleted my scheduled workouts from 8th to the 13th March today morning.
In the old version of Athletica.ai, it used to dynamically change the workouts in such a scenario. Is Athletica.ai now a passive platform like TrainingPeaks?
I post same issue few weeks ago - told me that I’m wrong.
I’m training for Ironman Hamburg and after the new ai and the post here I decided to quit Athletica.ai for now , I can’t take risk that something is wrong there.
The same reason I left the platform—I didn’t have this problem before the new UI. I really hope things go back to normal because it was a fantastic tool.
I recall reading your post. I am hoping that the response here will be more positive. The first version of Athletica.ai was amazing, and in my opinion, in the right direction.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I agree with you that the first version of Athletica.ai was amazing, and in my opinion, in the right direction. The AI coach in the first version was mostly taking correct decisions in modifying the program based on my current training load. Honestly, I even preferred the UI over the current one. In this second version, no changes happen and hence it’s no longer a coach, but a training guide relying on human decision making.
I think the new approach is “make your own choices” with the help of the AI coach and the resources; I’m not sure if that’s exactly right, but to me there really are fewer automatic adjustments than in the first version. And I can’t find an equivalent app.
Has this been officially said anywhere? Disappointing if that’s the approach, especially as someone new to my sport, let alone self-coaching. I don’t have the knowledge base beyond “listen to your body” to ask AI to adjust plans.
I haven’t noticed a lot of adjustment in my plan, especially compared to the “old” version. A good example was a much harder (hilly) ride yesterday than prescribed, but then no adjustment on my long run today. Not that I expect it, per se, but I know I had instances of that adjustment in the old version.
EDIT:
Building on your idea, @dafftt , I decided to prompt the AI coach with a prompt that Athletica even put in it’s blog post last week. From the blog post:
I guess if using the AI coach is intended, then we’re still left wanting…
EDIT 2:
Ah, so one is expected to ask the coach a very direct question. This is a pretty significant departure from the “auto-correct” old version, if this is the only way to approach managing workouts.
they said several times that their view is that the athlete msut remain decision-maker, particularly when someone asked why the AI coach couldn’t adjust the schedule himself
To be fair, this has always been their view. Even before the new UI and AI coach they would say that the athlete is the main decision maker. If a workout is too hard, shorten it. If you need a rest, take it. If you can do more, do it. They’ve been saying all of this for a long time.
Additionally, their view of the new AI coach seems to be that it cannot, yet, make changes to the schedule but it will eventually. And then it still won’t do it unprompted - thus leaving the athlete as the main decision maker.
My training is being adjusted in the new UI just the same as it was in the old UI as far as I can tell. I am seeing adjustments most days based on recent training. It shows up when I open an upcoming workout and looks like this:
I wonder if it has to do with your training settings….this is how I have mine set up and I am able to see updates to almost every workout as I go along…
Mine was set to the proper setting, I just wasn’t clicking into the workouts via the full online portal to see the adjustment. I can see some upcoming workouts with modified duration/loads.
Still interesting to see the AI Coach was unable to answer.
Confirming that I have experienced plan changes in the last few weeks leading up to Oceanside. Last week, for example, I kinda was looking forward to what had been a day off, but Coach added a session. I was able to see the rationale for the update in the iOS app: “Increase in training load to ensure progressive overload”. I even can see that, on the day prior, a two-session day included a drop in bike intensity and lift in run intensity.
I had missed some key session a few weeks prior due to travel. The Coach has been helping me catch up since.
Athletica is and remains to be adaptive training planning! You can see the adjustments in your workouts, with arrows up or down and % indicating increase or decrease.
If you are not seeing these in your workouts, please send a ticket to support@athletica.ai so we can have a look and take care of any potential bugs. Please give us constructive feedback with screenshots so that our tech team can investigate. Just stating “Athletica is static” is not helpful.
Our tech team is working on AI Coach updates which should eliminate :“I don’t have the tools to answer this yet”. You can absolutely ask AI Coach anything - if he is not able to answer → please email with screenshots of your prompt and AI Coach reply.
Again, if you need us to have a look, the best and fastest channel is support@athletica.ai .
Training plan adjustments settings:
“As Needed” means plans are updated and adjusted any time there are workouts deleted, completed, moved, thresholds changed, etc etc. Most people do not need this, and choosing “Daily” would suffice.
If you want to protect your upcoming sessions, chose desired days to protect and your sessions will NOT change.
These settings are there for you to customize your experience to your liking.
As someone that constantly looks at their plan of what’s ahead, I can definitely confirm that it is not static.
Not sure what my settings are (I’ve not changed them) but for example:
This Saturday I was due to do one of my last long runs of a marathon block. It has been set as a 3 hour progression run at around 25 miles - achievable but I’ve had disrupted training for the last 2 weeks since a half marathon race and my recovery stats aren’t the best at the moment with some elevated HR and fatigue on easier runs.
Today the coach has dropped that long run down to around 2 hours / 15 miles - which to be honest I am probably more happier with. If I hadn’t have done some very long runs already this block I could have increased the volume myself but I think this makes sense.
I also noted that plan sometimes doesn’t update but i think i discovered why:
I normally move all my week sessions to adapt them to my time costraints. When you do this, the syste automatically switch each session as locked and than never changed in type, quality, intensity and duration.
For this reason I normally move, then unlock all the session after the second day forward. This will allow all the modifications from AI except the next ones that i want made in that way.
