Good morning,
I am new to Athletica and am preparing for my next race season.
So far I really like the software and I always enjoy when my watch or some AI tells me what to train
I saw there was an older thread in regards to strength training in Athletica and I believe it said that it was supposed to come for low volume plans (which I am on) but I don’t see the option.
One of the reasons I chose Athletica was that there was supposed to be strength training as an option as this is important to me. Is this something that will be offered soon or how would one best go about implementing this?
Also as I am new to this, in some instances the workouts on Athletica don’t match the workouts on my watch.
Example given 5x 1 km at 180 - Age HR vs 5 km at 113-132 bpm HR.
Is this common that some workouts show differently?
Thanks in advance and I am looking forward to using Athletica more in the future.
Hello @KevKoe
Welcome to Athletica, glad to hear you are enjoying it so far.
I believe due to the time restrictions of the low volume plan, there is no strength training program . If you can dedicate time for it, I would suggest you generate mid volume plan, grab the strength training workout from there into your library (save it to library) and then re-generate low volume plan and insert the strength workout from your library. That’s a work-around at the moment so you can get your strength work done.
Would be helpful if you could attach screen shot/photos of what your watch is showing. I assume 5x1km is a threshold running workout. 5K at 113-132 bpm HR sounds like 5K aerobic workout. Did you change your week at all? If you did, then you need to re-sync (hit that top right corner and re-sync with Garmin). Also, make sure you are not subscribed to any other programs like from Garmin etc as then you’ll see multiple workouts in your watch.
Also, check that your Garmin zones are matching with your Athletica account and change in your Garmin connect accordingly.
Hope this helps. Please attach photos/screenshots to clarify if I’m way out in the woods (sorry about that).
Thank you so much for your response. I really appreciate it and I will look into this as soon as I can. If I see any differences in suggested training I will take screenshots and let you know.
One quick question.
I am in my test week and will be doing my first bike test tomorrow and I did my test swim on Monday.
Will Athletica have issues if I change my plan today to make those changes?
Should I wait until next week and will it still affect my account or is the test week independent from the plan I pick?
Thanks again and I am looking forward to utilizing and understanding Athletica better in the future.
Also, KevKoe, in addition to what Marjaana says about the workouts, I generally add full-body strength training programs into my athletes’ workout schedule, usually on Mondays and Thursdays. So you can do a workout, record it on Garmin or your device, and it will upload to Athletica. Let me know if you need some help with the workouts!
Does anyone know how to program strength training workouts to generate accurate load estimates? If I create a 60’ strength training workout with Z1 heart rate, I’m getting load estimates of 70. Thanks!
Strength Training is challenging to estimate the load as it doesn’t really tax cardiovascular system but does definitely tax the musculoskeletal and nervous systems. Based on my long experience with both Athletica and strength training, I would estimate LOAD for 30mins session with plyometrics and some heavy lifting about 15-20. 60mins I would say somewhere between 30-45 depending on how intensity your session is. I am not sure what type of strength you’d be doing, and I would say HYROX or CrossFit you’d probably hit higher than 45 for 60min session as typically they are more intensive with some redlining at the end…
Yeah, I have historic data for the sessions I’m doing, so I know what sort of load to expect. But I see no way to manipulate the planner to spit out an estimate in line with what I expect. The only variable to manipulate is heart rate, and that doesn’t seem to change the load projection (which is very high for 60’ of zone 1).
Create a new strength training session
Default is 30’ and a load of 35; zone 2 heart rate selected by default
