Session Feedback/Scheduling Alignment

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Hey everyone!

I have a couple of questions lately (:

  1. Does the AI adjust your program according to your sessions feedback? For example over multiple weeks/sessions I have been stating in my feedback, to incorporate rest days/lower intensity session if I need them, based off my recovery profile & also to increase my weight session time from 30mins to 45min (as I have a personalised program that is that length). However, it never seems to actually be done, despite the AI stating it will be?

  2. Secondly! I am starting new work involving shift work (2 days, 2 nights, 4 off) and I’m wondering if there is a way to get my program tailored to the shift cycle? So that I have bigger sessions on my days off. Tailoring my week in settings won’t really make a difference unless it was able to go with the shift cycle as its across 8 days.

Thank you!

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Hello @Cronje

  1. in the future, YES! We have seen many of you try to converse and tell AI coach what you want to happen in the future, and we are working on improving AI coach so you can actually chat with her/him/it. You can use workout wizard “fatigue” tab to change a session to lower intensity, or “duration” if you are time crunched. Or modality to something else. Also please feel free to move things around. Just click on the lock icon if a workout you want to move has it.
    The system does look at your accomplished workout with RPE, feel and comments and makes a small adjustment to next session based on what you did.
    Does this make sense to you?
  2. This is such a great question. I don’t have a good answer, unfortunately.
    All I can think of is to move longer sessions to your 4 days off, and shorter session to rest. Delete any to allow rest days.

MJ

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  1. Any thoughts on the inverse of this? Being able to go into the workout wizard on a day I’m feeling really energized and increase the load of a workout? I’ve found myself doing this more often than reducing the load and would be interested having some guidance on how much of an increase is reasonable or suggested to prevent over training in the short term.
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That’s a fantastic question! I will put in our list for discussion.

To start a convo, typically we talk about context, right.. is time unlimited? Go longer but lower intensity. Are you talking about hiit? Go until you still fell like you have two in the tank. Are you thinking about increasing your long run? Work with general rule of thumb 5-10% increases..

That’s fantastic you feeling like dynamite :firecracker: enjoy

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For me, these are typically Z2 runs. I set them up through Garmin so that the main set ends when I press the lap button. So if Athletica prescribes a 40 minute Z2 run and I’m feeling good I may keep going for 60 or 80 minutes (never more than 2x the prescribed length). But I have no idea how this might impact the plan that Athletica has laid out.

A week or two ago I probably would have used it for my 30/30 session. I had a string of weeks with 1 set, 7 interval 30/30s and was feeling strong enough at the end of the set that I would have like to increase it to 8 or 9 intervals. I didn’t because I figured that Athletica knew more than I did about managing load around these key sessions. That won’t be a problem next week as I already see 2 sets of 6 intervals prescribed. I don’t think I’ll be increasing that one :open_mouth: