Are repeats of interval-groups in workouts possible?

[Nater_Kane]

If I want to do a workout that consists of N sets of M repeats w/ 30s rest & an additional rest between sets… is there a notation I can use in the workout builder? Like using additional hierarchy, brackets or parenthesis, etc?

<engineer speak>
It seems to me that intuitively… implementing something YAML-like may make sense. I’ve written a few DSLs, but those circumstances were only due to a set of specific business needs that couldn’t be satisfied with a subset of another standard.

I guess I’m asking what might be the most elegant approach to supporting nested loops as the workout instruction text gets parsed and converted to an array?
</engineer speak>

One is just, nest them hierarchically, and let the visual diagram inform the user as to how it works.

3x
* 4x
** Run uphill 2m Z4-Z6 (311-513w) power=3s intensity=interval
** Press Lap downhill 0.12mi 0.12mi Z2 (191-256w) intensity=recovery
* Rest 3m Z1 intensity=rest

I should note that adding an additional layer of hierarchy currently has some unexpected behaviors.

and if I indent the 2m interval further like so

3x
* 4x
*** Run uphill 2m Z4-Z6 (311-513w) power=3s intensity=interval
** Press Lap downhill 0.12mi 0.12mi Z2 (191-256w) intensity=recovery
* Rest 3m Z1 intensity=rest

it renders this way, which I find totally curious.

[MedTechCD]

Nested loops are not supported at this moment. It has been asked before and might be on the todo list.

[Gerald]

@Nater_Kane

3x
* 4x
 ** Run uphill 2m Z4-Z6 (311-513w) power=3s intensity=interval
 ** Press Lap downhill 0.12mi 0.12mi Z2 (191-256w) intensity=recovery
 ** Rest 3m Z1 intensity=rest

You can nest/group one set of intervals, currently, and then repeat the single nesting. There needs to be a space between the two nested intervals and the recovery between sets, then repeat::

4x
- Run uphill 2m Z4-Z6 (311-513w) power=3s intensity=interval
- Press Lap downhill 0.12mi 0.12mi Z2 (191-256w) intensity=recovery

- Rest 3m Z1 intensity=rest

4x
- Run uphill 2m Z4-Z6 (311-513w) power=3s intensity=interval
- Press Lap downhill 0.12mi 0.12mi Z2 (191-256w) intensity=recovery

- Rest 3m Z1 intensity=rest

4x
- Run uphill 2m Z4-Z6 (311-513w) power=3s intensity=interval
- Press Lap downhill 0.12mi 0.12mi Z2 (191-256w) intensity=recovery

- Rest 3m Z1 intensity=rest

[Nater_Kane]

@Gerald that’s exactly what I currently do.

There are other edge cases like Ladders or Pyramids workouts that I of course expect to be particularly verbose.

This nonsense for example… an awesome workout that’s completely stupid to write out.