Training Peaks

Poet. · Joined: 06 Aug 2013 Posts: 390

jibberjim, or stenard, may come along shortly to correct me?

But, from reading the extensive TrainingPeaks blog, that's what I learned yesterday.

Do you have a Chrome browser?
There is an AWESOME extension called "Elevate"

This calculates figures similar to TrainingPeaks and is 100% free.
It isn't a good, but it is very decent and way better than Strava for this.

Here is a vague table to estimate TSS:

In theory, your maximum TSS for one hour of exercise is 100.
If it is more than this, your FTP is incorrect.

Pedro Peru · Joined: 19 Apr 2010 Posts: 1064 Location: Leeds

Somewhere on here (iirc) there's a lik to an Excel spreadsheet that calculates CTL, TSB, etc from the TSS values you get from trainingpeaks.

jibberjim · Joined: 15 Aug 2008 Posts: 8392 Location: Kingston

Poet. · Joined: 06 Aug 2013 Posts: 390

See, told you Wink

Thanks, jibberjim Very Happy

Also, not sure if I mentioned this before, but TSS doesn't take into account that you had an awful day at work, got home late, drank a bottle of wine, then the baby was crying all night, then you dented the car on the drive into work the next day ( TSS for that is probably 300 Wink

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Roscoemck · Joined: 10 Aug 2016 Posts: 483 Location: Glasgow

Thanks guys. As always, loads of useful information!

I am going to monitor things like HR, TSS and Watts a bot more closely this year, however, I will bear in mind that they will not always be end of the story.

Jorgan · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 10:21 am Post subject:

Garmin has something called Intensity Minutes now (for HR activities), but I find it very inconsistent, probably not helped by the wrist HR that I have activated when I'm not using a strap during my actual training sessions.

For example, this morning I am up to 299 minutes already, despite only having done a 45 min commute barely going it to Z3. I looked at my watch and it says I'm sat here at 122bpm Rolling Eyes

In fact I've just turned wrist HR off, as it's going nuts.
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mattsurf · Joined: 28 Sep 2016 Posts: 852 Location: Zug, Switzerland

Can someone explain why my run today, 1h2mins 98% in Z1 and 2 on TP has a TSS of 200?

Last week the same run, 4 mins faster, mainly Z4 had a TSS of 155

And the previous week, mainly Z3 had a TSS of 143

My zones appear to be set correctly, MHR and LTR all look correct.

Is my TSS very high because my form is currently at -48?

my current CTL is 86, which is not very high, it was over 100 from March to September. I reduced training in November and December, and had a couple of weeks of almost no training over Christmas (however, I was doing a lot of walking, just not recorded).

I have completed 2 weeks of a 3 week training block, Doing the Tour De Zwift races means I am probably doing a few more zone 4+ sets than planned.

I can't say that I am feeling particularly tired, but a little concerned that TP is giving some really big TSS numbers for what feels like easy workouts

Jorgan · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 3:16 pm Post subject:

stenard · Joined: 04 Sep 2013 Posts: 2063

You can't do a 1hr run for 200 TSS? Something is wrong with your zones. I think running is a little bit more, but the general principle of 100 TSS/hr being the max still loosely applies.

For reference, my 2hr15 run yesterday, with >17k at Target MP+10s/km in the middle, accrued me 200 TSS precisely.

What TSS score is training peaks outputting (on the website): TSS, hrTSS or rTSS? That will help determine which zones are causing the problem.
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mattsurf · Joined: 28 Sep 2016 Posts: 852 Location: Zug, Switzerland

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