TR is essentially two things; the platform and the plans. TR seems to think of themselves as a training plan company first, with the platform there to support those plans. And they have a lot of conviction in the underlying training philosophies of their plans. But a lot of customers and/or potential customers see TR the other way around; an amazing training platform, but one with a fairly narrow scope of training plans that may be partially or completely at odds with how they’d like to train.
I don’t understand what is amazing about their training platform? It’s super basic and non-engaging, the thing people like about TR is its training plan structures to follow, for those not confident/knowledgeable enough to write their own training. Its the exact opposite of Zwift which is super engaging but doesnt really have the greatest set up with pre-written structured plans; why they havent sorted this I dont know, but im happy doing my own sessions regardless.
I understand the TR sweetspot bias for the majority of people/users, it makes sense. But I dont know why they basically pigeon hole themselves with it, as developing other models of training plan would be an easy investment for them and give users more pre-written structured choices to pick what suits them. Granted with an “80/20” style of training its pretty hard to get wrong, so they probably figure people could put these together by themselves with workouts which already exist in their platform.