How to create workouts like Morpheus heart rate suggestions

Bdo811 · September 22, 2024, 2:49pm

Is anyone using a Morpheus heart monitor?

They have prescribed zbit training programs that I’m wondering if anyone has made TrainerDay programs for (they are various 60 on 10 off etc)

I find it hard to figure out how to pedal to keep up with the changes in the program and before trying to crate the workouts myself wondering if they exist.

Thank you

Alex · September 22, 2024, 5:37pm

That’s an interesting product. I just did a brief look. It’s a cool idea in general but I need to look at it more.

So when you say program in I assume you mean program in HR targets? Right now I want to remove all public workouts (I don’t think there are very many public ones now) with HR targets since we use specific HR not % of threshold or something else. Our workout creator is super fast and you could even use ChatGPT to generate excel spreadsheets possibly and then copy and paste the workouts into our editor (just an idea).

Bdo811 · September 22, 2024, 5:56pm

They have a set of workouts for the zone 2 recovery part. They look like this

Alex · September 22, 2024, 6:16pm

Oh that’s a unusual prescription of intervals when talking about heart rate 5-10 second intervals all out. So you should use our slope mode intervals not HR intervals but then you could do ERG to drop the power and then do HR intervals for the recovery and press + button to extend the workout. This is interesting and hard but unusual use of HR. This might require more explanation on how to create this workout as prescribed in TrainerDay but I think you can do a good job of it… Let me know.

Bdo811 · September 23, 2024, 9:20pm

Is there a way to program that so that TD mirrors what their app is trying to get you to do?

Alex · September 24, 2024, 5:36am

Yes but realize for example “all out” or as hard as you can is not something you can program, it’s something you must do. You can program very hard in ERG but any particular day you can be stronger or weaker. I will post an example of how to program this.

Alex · September 24, 2024, 7:18am

So there are multiple approaches to how to solve this problem. One is the “perfect” way from a TrainerDay workout creation standpoint which is design the workout exactly true to what they are saying. Like this image

For the 2 minute HR segment press >> button to extend 2 minutes to what you need it to be during the workout until you get to z2/blue zone (turn on our zones in settings). Next time you can set this to the time you actually need, some people might be 2 minutes some might be 5 minutes.

I feel that is a bit complex, I would do it simpler (I can explain a simple workout if you need)

Another final way is do it more like outdoors and do it all manually. And just not program it

Click on quick start and click slope mode for 1%
Warmup watch your HR so it gets to the top of zone 2
Increase slope to about 4-6%
Shift gears and go as hard as you can for 10-15 seconds
lower slope to 1% or shift down and watch your HR until it gets back to Zone 2,6) Repeat step 3,4,5 - 10+ times
cool down

Norsemanfit · September 29, 2024, 8:07am

I found these two workouts worked well with my Morpheus HR targets.

1st one called ( there is no try )