I feel like Zwift isn’t keeping up with this thread. @Vincent_Williams1
In another thread similar to this one, it said it “wouldn’t be appropriate” to continue where you left off, since training is “complex” and your body can’t pick up where you left off after a week or two, but if we are forced after a week or two off to come back in a progressively harder training plan, you are coming back in a much harder workout than you left off, so their logic makes no sense. (see the thread here https://forums.zwift.com/t/pausing-training-plans/12899)
I do CrossFit twice a week at minimum and downhill ski two days a week (from first chair to last). Some days my body needs a rest, but I can’t since I can’t pause my Zwift training plan. A suggestion would be that they don’t need to be done on on a weekly basis. If you skip a day, your 12 week training plan just turned into a 12 week and 1 day training plan. No need to cut off the workouts after each week, if you weren’t able to finish them all, roll them over. Even in the training plans, it says rest days are essential. How am I supposed to have a rest day if this training plan won’t let me rest with a day off? In January I had 3 days where I skied all day and came back to do an hour-plus Zwift workout just because I you can’t put off a day. So in January, I logged 34 activities on Strava and had no rest days the whole month.
Also, the way we can’t pause the training plans, this makes it harder for us to enjoy the other features of Zwift, like group rides and races. Since we can’t pause our plan, we are basically forced to do our training workout than joining in on a fun group ride.