1. What are Generated Workouts?
Generated Workouts is an advanced feature in the Stryd ecosystem that creates personalized training plans tailored to your unique running profile. This intelligent system analyzes your running data to recommend workouts that are optimally suited to your current fitness level, goals, and schedule.
Key features of Generated Workouts include:
Unmatched Personalization: Every workout is tailored to your strengths, weaknesses, and goals.
Lifestyle Adaptability: Workouts flex with your schedule, ensuring consistency without rigidity.
Continuous Evolution: The system learns from your performance, constantly adjusting to keep you challenged and progressing.
Three workout options - Best Match, Easier, Harder Options:
When a workout is generated, Stryd provides a workout based on your recent activity, along with an easier and harder variation for flexibility.
The “Easier” option will provide the most conservative workout. The “Harder” option will challenge you more than the other three options.
2. How can I access this feature?
Generated Workouts is accessible to users with an active Stryd Membership. To use this feature:
Open the Stryd mobile app
Navigate to the main page of the app
Tap the "Generate Workouts" button to get recommendations
Note: You must have an active Stryd Membership to access this feature.
3. How & when should I use this feature?
The Generated Workout feature is a great way to spice up your training. To keep you healthy, the Stryd team will adjust the kinds of workouts generated based on your current data.
How to use this feature:
Tap the "Generate Workouts" button on the main page of the Stryd app
Review the three recommended workout options presented to you
Tap on a workout you're interested in to view more details
You will be prompted to either:
Add the workout to your calendar, or
Replace an existing workout in your calendar
This feature allows you to easily integrate personalized workouts into your training plan, helping you stay engaged and challenged in your running routine.
When to use this feature:
Ready for a Workout:
If you have been running consistently, and your RSB is within a reasonable range, Stryd will recommend three workouts. Best Match, Easier, and Harder.
You Have a Scheduled Workout for Today:
If a high-intensity workout is scheduled, you'll see one recommended workout, an easier alternative, and an easier option.
You Have a Workout Scheduled for Tomorrow:
Stryd will generate lower-intensity workouts to ensure you’re prepared for tomorrow’s scheduled session.
Upcoming Event:
When you have an event within 7 days, the system suggests easy, recovery-focused workouts to keep your fatigue low.
High Stress Score:
If your running stress is too high, Stryd will recommend rest or low-stress workouts to avoid overtraining.
Long Break from Running:
After a break of more than 14 days, the system recommends lower-intensity workouts to ease back into training.
4. What data is used when creating Generated Workouts?
Generated Workouts uses a comprehensive set of data from your past running activities to create personalized workout recommendations. This includes:
Your Running Capability: This is based on your Critical Power and other performance metrics collected by your Stryd pod. It helps the system understand your current fitness level and what types of workouts you're capable of performing.
Your Typical Running Routine: The system analyzes your usual running patterns, including:
Frequency of runs
Usual duration of runs
Types of workouts you typically do (easy runs, long runs, interval training, etc.)
Recent Training Load: This includes data such as:
Running Stress Scores (RSS) from recent activities
Running Stress Balance (RSB)
Past Performance: The system considers how you've responded to different types of workouts in the past.
By considering all these factors, Generated Workouts can create workout recommendations that are not only appropriate for your fitness level but also fit well with your usual routine and preferences. This data-driven approach helps ensure that each workout is challenging yet achievable, promoting consistent progress in your running performance.
Remember, the more consistently you use your Stryd pod and follow your training plan, the more accurate and beneficial the Generated Workouts recommendations will become.
The Stryd team uses the available information in the Stryd app to generate suggested workouts.
Workouts might seem easy - Lack of High-Intensity Runs:
If your recent running history shows few intense workouts, the system will generate lower-intensity options to build fitness gradually.
5. Requirements for Generated Workouts
Occasionally, the Stryd system will not present the Workout Generation feature. These are the reasons why you are not presented with this option.
No Valid Critical Power:
If your CP hasn’t been detected yet, Stryd won’t generate workouts.
The solution is to complete CP testing. You can do this by adding the Training Plan called Testing Plan to your account.
A Critical Power is necessary to tailor workouts to your current fitness.
No Suitable Workouts for Scheduled Type:
If today’s scheduled workout doesn’t match Stryd’s supported types (e.g., time trials), no workout alternatives will be provided.
You can either try again on another workout day or change the workout type to a Stryd-supported workout type.
Multiple Workouts Today:
If you have more than one workout planned, the "Generate Workout" feature is disabled for that day.
You can either try again on another workout day or remove one of the workouts from today.
System Error:
Occasionally, internal errors may prevent workout generation. If this happens, please contact the Stryd team.
When contacting support, be sure to include your Stryd username and a screenshot of the error on the app.