I’m doing a training plan and am only available to do it on certain days of the week, however the plan locks me out of doing stuff too early. I understand the goal is to ensure I don’t overwork myself, but I have my own life and schedule and it would be nice if there was some flexibility. I’ll still end up with the same amount of days on the saddle and days off the saddle.
Seems silly theres no flexibility within a plan.
I second this motion, there needs to be a way to force unlock the workout within the training plan.
Zwift has no issue with us doing a free ride or even finding the day’s workout in the workout tabs and completing it from there. I’ve done that before but then you don’t get credit for the ride or have to go back in and click did this ride outside. It is a completely unnecessary hassle. This is supposed to be fun and even hard, but don’t make us jump through hoops.
Add me tooo!
Definitely. I structure my own workouts between swim/bike/run for tri. There aren’t a ton of plans available in all, so I like to pick one a-la-carte and schedule it myself. The out-of-the-box Zwift plans are perfectly programmed and the verbal feedback is nice. I just want to do maybe two rides per week and follow the plan sequentially, but stretched out over more time to fit with my other exercise.
plus one for me on this too, I’d like to be able to unlock rides early, otherwise I’ll just end up missing them
Yes, we Need to the workouts unlock
I don’t see the reason for locking the trading plan to certain days. We need flexibility on this. Theres no sense in this they way it currently is.
The plan should be open always, allow us to mark it as “done” when appropriate. Currently one of the most annoying features on zwift.
Completely agree unnecessary feature that dissuades from a workout. Has anyone gotten a response from Zwift on this topic?
Another upvote for this change request. Even if I want to do a workout on the day it unlocks, I can’t do it in the morning when I’d like to because it doesn’t unlock until 11am! Ridiculous and unnecessary to tie it to a specific hour…
Beyond annoyed right now. I’m going out of town around lunchtime today. Got on my bike at 6am only to be told my workout isn’t available until 7:32.
I have meetings to call into and work to get done, guess I’ll be skipping the workout.
I have two weeks until my event and a very solid base. Would love to do weeks 8 & 9 of singletrack slayer ahead of time…but I can’t…
Zwift please change this.
I just joined the Zwift community and did the first workout yesterday, just wanted to do the 2nd to find out what you discuss here, and I just can add to this. There needs to be more flexibility since all of us have a life besides Zwift.
Totally agree, it will great to unlock a step and to follow multiple plan at the time.
Add me to the list of people annoyed by this. The back to fitness plan which is two rides a week, so I planned to do that Monday and Wednesday, then add a third, supplemental ride on Fridays. Well, I signed up for it and did the first ride two days ago on Monday. It’s Wednesday, same time of day, and it’s telling me the next workout won’t be available for 10 hours!! This messes with the whole structure I had planned on!
The workouts should be unlocked and I should be able to do them as I please! I’m a responsible adult. I know to give myself some time between workouts!
I thought I was alone with this “problem” and it’s also ridicoulus if I missed a block it doesn’t allow me to recover.
Has anyone asked this change to zwift? Is there any answer somewhere?
Yes. Zwift, please fix this. Training plans are awesome, but with this lock feature actually discourages me from working out when I cannot set my own schedule. I was pretty disappointed to learn there isn’t a way to unlock these sooner.
Same here, they should put the timing as a recommendation, not an obligation.
Hi @Sonia_Castellote, welcome to the forums. You have resurrected an old thread, and there have been changes made to the training plans since. Now all the workouts for the week are available on Monday and you can complete them at your leisure during the week with no more blackouts, other than I think 8 hours between workouts.
Hello Mike, thanks for the answer. I was looking because I started a plan and I think there has been a bug, it won’t let me start until Saturday. I guess it’s just a one time problem then, have a nice evening.
Sonia Castellote
This is still issue. I did my workout yesterday around 12.
I have work today at 12 so got up early to do todays workout. Tells me I have to wait 9 hours before it is unlocked.
In addition last week I got home around 8pm and tried to hop on to do my last workout of the day and it told Me it had expired when it was still same day it was due. Plan shouldn’t block when I want to do my workout.