Fire up the PC …
Zwift: Text text text do this anaerobic capacity workout text text text
Me: Does 90 minute Threshold workout
Zwift: Text text text do this anaerobic capacity workout text text text
… 5 minutes later …
Me: Does 90 minute Robopacer Ride
Zwft: Text text text do this anaerobic capacity workout text text text
Me: Dude! I just did 3 hours of work. I’m going to have a shower, eat, and chill TFO of the rest of today
Maybe you can get Carl to do the workout for you, for a modest fee
If he can save a few up and do them back-to-back to earn me the PRL Full route badge, I’ll buy him a steak pie with sauce of his choosing..
I guess this brings up another point of feedback for this style of feature that gives ride suggestions and tells me my fitness status, and presumes to know how hard I should ride today… In cases where I know I’m detraining, and know I can’t go all out due to sickness, injury, vacation, etc… I would like to shut off the suggestions until I am ready to train again, otherwise continuing to see anaerobic efforts suggested alongside “detraining” is really not motivating when I know there’s not much I can do at the moment other than sit and spin.
So I guess in addition to the ability to “turn it off completely” for folks who just don’t want it, I would like the ability to temporarily disable the suggestions while I recover from sickness, injury, vacation etc.
a simple on/off switch in the settings would satisfy both those parameters
I guess in my case I’d also want to disable the fitness trends in addition to the recommendations. I know I’m detraining at the moment (even though Zwift currently thinks I’m fresh) 
that would also be great… but baby steps 
I know that ZHQ is “working on improvements” but I wish they would spend a few seconds to communicate what they are working on and what the timeline is…
There clearly needs to be a mechanism for entering rider goals and health status.
As well as other activities besides cycling and off Zwift.
It would not surprise me to see that your/my/our definition of “improvements” is not aligned with Zwift’s definition.
It needs to have the ability to tell someone to NOT ride on a particular day when they are really fatigued.
I know this is going against driving engagement with Zwift (and helping to make virtual traffic jams in Zwift), but what if the recommendation ends up with someone getting injured? How does that help with user engagement…
That would be a new feature
Personal recomendation
They do not allow for changes in routine
Like working away where you use the gym in hotel
No way of putting in zwift record
You end up with bad recommendations
Even holidays effect same way as above
You get bad records which are untrue more like bad programming
What Zwift might need is a little help from Chuck Yeager. Test pilots, a Beta team. Made up of people willing to test new tools before implementing them or involving someone unsolicited. A.I. as a training coach? A button in the companion app to join a test version. So that, upon invitation, feedback and suggestions flow back in a more serene, objective, and constructive way.
They did that for this feature. I suspect they focused on “is this functioning at minimum viable product level and not crashing the game” over getting useful recommendations.
We told them it wasn’t and they rolled it out to everyone anyway 
I think what we are publicly seeing Zwift go through with this is the same thing trainers go through with clients.
A training program must take into account workouts and rest etc.
It also takes in health and goals.
I think many riders fail to identify or articulate goals clearly to allow specific workouts.
That’s why we see some workouts appearing as cookie cutter.
That said, many riders would benefit from following some basic training principles.
Being a trainer/coach is difficult, real or AI.
We’re seeing this intrusive garbage that I didn’t ask for in the way.
I got “You’re coming back from a break, so today’s ride is….” When I had just done 4 fairly hard races in 5 days.
It’s nonsense and in the way. Make it go away, throw away the code. Or at least let me hide it.
I agree, the option to set a clearly defined and achievable goal yourself. Just like a coach in real life, you have to take all the data into account: age, rest, nutrition, and other types of sports or efforts performed. Certainly worth considering for some. Personally, I don’t need it at the moment, but never say never. And from the responses, it’s clear that an “off” switch wouldn’t be a luxury. But the idea itself isn’t that bad. There’s still quite a bit of work to be done, that’s for sure, and every beginning is difficult. What I appreciate is that they’re constantly trying to innovate.
I like the feature. I did a longer than usual ride this morning (Knights of the roundabout - in my quest to complete Tour de Zwift!) and used the suggested longer workout (“the long ride”) to liven it up. A perfect choice. I’m planning a shorter harder ride tomorrow and interested to see what workout Zwift suggests.
Yeah I think its cool. If you are too lazy to scroll then hate to see you on the bike.