I wonder how it is possible to skip the God workouts. I have searched both here the forum and also tried to do it in the app, but it seems that once the workout is scheduled in the journey, it cannot be chenged into a standard exercise. I wonder why?
I understand, that these are used to evaluate your physical status. However, I strongly doubt that this is very effective, as it contains quite a large anaerobic portion. The qualitative feedback (exercise performing quality and demand) should be really enough.
Some context: The reason why I do not want to perform these is, because I have a āmainā sport (cycling), in which I want to do my specific HIT exercises. Skipping these in favour of HIT God Workouts is no good idea, and the number of HIT exercises is limited, I cant add additional ones. (BTW: I do not think that time of completion is really a good overall performance indicator due to the fact that there is a major anaerobic factor included, which is not very related to muscle strength and/or mobility)
I am looking to skip all intervals and/or exchange them with a god workout and we are discussing much about a gods only journey in the forum. It seems that there are so many users nowadys on Freeletics, that they need to do some more journies for other cases.
As far as I know there is no way to exchange a gods workout with a interval or the other way round.
Obviously the god workouts have most anaerobic load but that is something what freeletics was known for, at least for a long time. For my part, the time was an absolute indicator for how fit I was. I never did aerobic training but my first run after 3-4 months god workouts only was 15+ km without any problems in a easy āZone 2 Paceā as you would say nowadays.
I switched to Triathlon now so all Zone 2 was new to me but I simply can not get that fit when I was doing only God workouts and no intervals.
Donāt get me wrong here. I would welcome a journey with no gods if the add one with only gods on the other hand.
Thatās wrong.
No matter the Training Journey, I always was able to turn a god workout into an interval. You just have to play around with the Quick Adapt.
I also faced the other way around - but this highly depends on selected amount of coach days, Training Journey and available options.
@martin.wifling I also cycle the main part at the moment. I do not skip the god workouts but I donāt do them in full speed (I didnāt since several years due to my metabolism), more like an interval. I donāt care about PBs.
Thank you for your input! As a workaround, doing God workouts at ānormalā speed is the way to go for me.
I still could not figure out on how to adapt the God workout. The quick adjust just gives some basic adjustments which have no influence on the workout type, but only on adjustments, while the āNew workoutā option goes nowhere (might be a bug in the app).
What I can do though, is pulling forward a workout that is scheduled in the future, but that might also not be a favourable workaround.
However, I assume that the time of completion of the God workout is used to assess your fitness level and to adjust the follow up workout intensity, no?
If so, doing the God workouts at lower speed isnt really helpful, because it impacts the further schedule of the conditioning plans? I would assume so.
@martin.wifling Strange that your god workouts wonāt change to intervals when using some quick adapts (in my case, god workouts often are replaced by intervals when using intensity or time adapts combined with quite or spare place).
The time used to do a god workout wonāt affect a lot the intensity of upcoming sessions - at least thatās my experience. In my case (I slowed down almost two years ago after āsix years of doing workouts in full speedā) it took more than a year to let the coach decrease the intensity of god workouts: I now get e.g. a 2x Persephone scheduled instead of a 3x Persephone. I donāt know your athleteās in-app history but if there arenāt any records of āpast youā doing a god workout in full speed, the coach will assume that your slow speed is your speed and all is fine.
@melaLetics
I now tried about a ten times to change the workout as you said. At no time the god workout has been replaced by an interval.
I did not meant the intensity of the gods workout, it would be really stupid to change their intensity (you could not call it a PBā¦). I meant the intensity of the interval workouts, that in my understanding are (also) based on the evaluation of the finishing time?
However, case closed for me. Thanks for your support!
