My plan isn't updating....I think

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Hi, I made some changes to my plan a couple of days ago, increasing to the mid-volume plan, but while my settings say mid volume, I’m only getting 7-8 hours per week and no strength and conditioning. It looks like the low volume plan.
I don’t know whether this is a problem resulting from the outage, or there’s something wrong in my settings.
Any ideas?
Thanks

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Hey @yvette.merga , thank you for this. I had a look at your profile and it looks like all your settings are fine. Your settings are 6-16 hours per week. Is this what you wanted?
Athletica looks back on what you have been consistently doing in the past, and very slowly increases your weekly volume- it may seem conservative, but the most important factor for success and progressive overload is that the athlete stays healthy and injury free. Your case is a perfect example on how this works in practice.
Athletica looks back on your training: 5-8hr of training per week. It would be irresponsible to give you 16 hour weeks off the bat. It will slowly start increasing, always looking at how you respond.
When you look at the plan ahead, it doesn’t look like it will increase your weekly volume, but it is because it is not a static template plan. It adjusts depending on how you train.

So what to do:

  • if you feel great, add time to your workouts. Focus on going longer on your aerobic sessions first. Then, if your HIIT sessions or tempo sessions feel easy, add 1-2 reps always leaving 1-2 reps in the tank.
  • when you feel “meh”, recover.
    Few weeks of “overriding” the plan, and you’ll teach Athletica that you can handle more and it will give you more “leash”.

Does that make sense?
Happy training, MJ

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Thanks MJ, that makes perfect sense. Yes, those are the time settings I wanted. But I expected to see some strength sessions added in, now that I’m on the medium plan. Will these appear over time, also?
Thanks!

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Hey, ah yes, with mid volume you should be getting s&c as well. But, now you can simply pull any strength session from the global library and into your training week.
MJ

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