Old 12-09-18, 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Harvieu25
Mine did Oct 8 this year and my fitness nosed dived for two weeks before I realized it wasn't my training, but their program. I initially had my max HR set up and let the zones fall where they may, but then I decided to set it up to use my zones and that is where the program failed. Got a service ticket on it and the guy at Strava told me to go back to max HR setting. I did, but adjusted it form 183 to 172 to get my zones to line up better. Worked like a charm, but not perfect by any stretch. But, I'm a noob so what do I know...
Basing your training zones on your LTHR zones instead of your max HR is better. The old calculations strava was doing were likely overestimating your "fitness" and the new number are more representative.
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