Hi,

I'm currently at AC 7.5 PL 6. The watch has asked me allready 3 times to update to AC 8 but I refused each time, not feeling ready or up to it. Unfortunately it doesn't change the PL when refusing an AC update it just keeps completely the same settings.

And I kept on following the recommendations of PL 6, really stupid actually because PL 6 is about the hardest program level, at AC 7.5 anyway. So it's only logical that overtraining would be the result and that's where I am now. I would have expected my HR rest to go up which isn't so much the case, I just can't run slow enough to reach my TE in the given time when I need to do TE's under 3, my HR is much higher now when running slowly then it usually is.

I've decided to rest for the rest of this week. But what should I do with the AC should I manually bring it back to AC 7.5 because then it automatically takes PL 5 ? Or should I update to AC 8 automatically then it also takes PL 5 ? I geuss the difference is the intensity of the TE values.

I allready took a look at what the trainingplan would be if I would chose AC 8 or 7.5 again, so I can't let the watch decide after the rest period as this comes down to resetting the watch.


Any ideas, please let me know.

glucid

Hello Glucid,

Eddie; it is likely that Firstbeat Athlete will have any of this analysis built into it in the near future such as the frequency analysis?

Don't worry Eddie!

According to Tuomas at Firsbeat, they don't have any plans to include that functionality in Athlete, at least not right now. I would personally think it would be useful though, as recovery is very personaly and might vary a lot between two athletes.