Is there a way to make the model speed up my recovery, it’s been overestimating it all year. Like I finished a big block last week before taking time off on vacation, came back did one hard(er) workout and now I’m “Very Tired” for the foreseeable future… I’ve read in a recent forum post(Help me understand the tiredness star) that the model needs time to align my actual fitness with the fitness it knows about, but it’s been 2 full months now since I resumed training.
HI Jim. Try changing your time constants in Account Settings/Profile to 22/12, 22/12, 60/5 for peak, high and low resp. from 42/7 and see if that makes things better for you. These are the values we’re using for new users and it appears to do a bit better.
Armando, after changing time constants and clicking “Save Settings” down below, a banner shows, saying profile has been updated. Is that it, or do I have to click on “Recalculate Progression” also ?
Unfortunately, it’s a bit overly complicated to explain in this box. We’ve been meaning to blog about it but even then it’s not that simple. There are articies on the web that talk about increasing/decreasing time constants based on if you recover faster/slower but unfortunately they don’t have the math quite correct when they make those statements. It doesn’t really operate that way. We’re looking to add a new feature that will allow you to tune things a bit more. If we do it right, it should help you make your own adjustments without have to understand all the math behind it.