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  1. Set Workout builder to measure by Zone

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    Future Opportunity  ·  Josh responded

    Great suggestion. We’ve struggled with this as the workout may be created based on a zone methodology different from an athlete’s or multiple athletes’ zones. Thus Zone 2 per the workout may not map correctly to different users depending on each users’ specific zone settings. We will continue to look into this as we agree planning and execution of workouts is often based on zones – we’re just wanting to ensure if we do enable this, it’s usable for athletes with differing zone settings/methodologies. Thanks for your feedback!

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    Tom Cuyt commented  · 

    I see it this way:
    - at this moment: you build the workout by saying 20min between 80%-85% of your HR treshhold or treshhold pace. This is fine and works :)
    - what I would like: you build the workout by saying 20min in zone 2, again specified of yout HR zones or Pace zones... that's it (no need to make it complicated)

    I explain: there are different ways to auto calculate your zones. Nice feature. But you can also manually set them as you like. Do you want to have 10 zones? No problem. So once you have done this then you should be able to use these zones in the workout builder. This cannot be hard to do... Now everything is calculated by percentage like 80% of HR treshold = x TSS etc... but since the zones you create are made from the same numbers the calculation remains the same.

    Trainers who sell plans or whatever should always begin by defining which zones they use. Or just stick to the old system.

    Why? No 2 people are the same! 2 people of the same height, the same weight, the same running background and the same record time on the 10k can react differently on the same workout.

    Anyway, for me personally: sometimes I train on heart rates but most of the time on pace. It depends on the workout and more on the adaptation result of the training I want to see. So I have my own pace zones (they are well known but the numbers are personal) like 5k pace, marathon pace, ******* treshold, steady, easy, etc... I just want to be able to build a workout by using: 2k warmup, 5k easy, 10 reps of 200m @5k pace with 200m steady, 1k cooldown... this is MUCH easier then having to calculate... a pace between 3'25" and 3'40" equals euh... 91% -94% of.... and even worse... when I change my paces because I got better of because I set a different goal I have to rewrite all my workouts using that parameter... otherwise I would just redefine my zones and I'm all set...

    It is so simple AND so powerful for trainingpeaks should you have this. Also for the trainers... I really don't know what is keeping you from doing this... better yet: it is just adding something because you can keep the old system too (and you should keep it!)

    Hope this can really be added because for this reason alone I'm still using a spreadsheet with my training and workout plan that I can upload directly to Garmin Connect (they too prohibit you building your own trainingprogram which is just ridiculous - even from a moneymaking perspective - but that's just what I think) with a special program made by a smart user.