# New: set custom ramp rate in advanced plan settings **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Created:** [October 13, 2026, 7:51pm UTC](https://forum.aiendurance.com/t/new-set-custom-ramp-rate-in-advanced-plan-settings/225 "2026-10-13T19:51:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MarkusRummel](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/forum.aiendurance.com/markusrummel/32/8_2.png) [@MarkusRummel](https://forum.aiendurance.com/u/MarkusRummel)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2026, 7:51pm UTC](https://forum.aiendurance.com/t/new-set-custom-ramp-rate-in-advanced-plan-settings/225/1 "2026-10-13T19:51:49Z")
You can now set the ramp rate of your plan. Default is 10%. It sets how the plan ramps up total time per sport per week from your detected volume over the last 6 weeks to your requested volume: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/uploads/aiendurance/original/1X/abbb6e71a292eef430ae2c93512bc54a8b194104.png) ---
**Author:** ![Jordi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/53a042/32.png) [@Jordi](https://forum.aiendurance.com/u/Jordi)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.aiendurance.com/t/new-set-custom-ramp-rate-in-advanced-plan-settings/225/2 "2026-10-14T15:59:09Z")
Hi Markus, How is volume defined, because duration or distance doesn’t tell enough if you don’t take into account what it consists of. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![MarkusRummel](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/forum.aiendurance.com/markusrummel/32/8_2.png) [@MarkusRummel](https://forum.aiendurance.com/u/MarkusRummel)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.aiendurance.com/t/new-set-custom-ramp-rate-in-advanced-plan-settings/225/3 "2026-10-14T19:28:07Z")
Hi Jordi, volume = duration but since the plan is mainly Endurance and intervals are also limited in their growth in practice it is very close to defining volume via ESS ---
**Author:** ![R\_Handle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@R\_Handle](https://forum.aiendurance.com/u/R_Handle)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2026, 1:00am UTC](https://forum.aiendurance.com/t/new-set-custom-ramp-rate-in-advanced-plan-settings/225/4 "2026-10-16T01:00:03Z")
1. I like how it can go down to a low number like 3% so if I want to use it I can protect against my desire to do more because I feel okay. 2. I’ve heard lots of opinions on what the ramp rate should be. 10% on the longest run, weekly volume doesn’t matter. 10% on quality workouts, ignore endurance. 10% on total volume. 10% on longest run and 10% on quality, but calculated independently. - I’m less interested in being able to tune each of those independently, and more interested a blog post where the ‘optimal’ mix of those parameters is determined and then that optimal mix used in the slider here. (I do love an LLM generated regression model) 3. How would one leave it at the ‘the ml decides’? Was it implicitly at 10% internally and is now tunable, or has something that was being calculated automatically now been replaced with a static value? ---
**Author:** ![MarkusRummel](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/forum.aiendurance.com/markusrummel/32/8_2.png) [@MarkusRummel](https://forum.aiendurance.com/u/MarkusRummel)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2026, 5:05pm UTC](https://forum.aiendurance.com/t/new-set-custom-ramp-rate-in-advanced-plan-settings/225/5 "2026-10-16T17:05:55Z")
It’s rather simple here: ramp rate relates to overall duration per sport which as I wrote above is very similar to restricting ESS growth. We have other ramp rate like parameters like long run/ride duration increase per week which are currently not adjustable by user. I think this one has the most effect and is most often the one you would want to change. Before it was always 10% ---
**Author:** ![R\_Handle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@R\_Handle](https://forum.aiendurance.com/u/R_Handle)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2026, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.aiendurance.com/t/new-set-custom-ramp-rate-in-advanced-plan-settings/225/6 "2026-10-18T14:36:43Z")
Thank you for clarifying. Based on my own circumstance, I’ll play with this number a bit. I think it would be even more excellent where it could have an “auto” mode based on chat memory, plan prompt or digital twin the users ramp rate is optimized to either their preferences, past observations in addition to the manual override.