TSS for strength training / HIIT workouts

PCP · Joined: 13 Oct 2012 Posts: 2005 Location: Manchester

When building a training plan, are you supposed to add TSS points to a strength session or to a HIIT workout - Say 45 minutes of 30 sec on/off with a 4/5 two minutes breaks?

Friel says there is a way of using 'tonnage' to estimate TSS for weightlifting but there is nothing I can find for a hard all over body workout. It obviously accumulates fatigue but do you just class it as 'bonus work' or factor it into a weekly plan when working out overall TSS?

explorerJC · Joined: 20 Oct 2005 Posts: 16060 Location: Farthingstone

There probably is, however, accurate data would be hard to calculate...

You factor it in as additional to weekly load...
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PCP · Joined: 13 Oct 2012 Posts: 2005 Location: Manchester

Cheers.

iwaters · Joined: 06 Sep 2016 Posts: 448

The problem I found with Friel's way of using tonnage and a % of total is if you are using progressive overload to increase strength the tonnage value changes every week.

I just didn't bother logging it all in the end.

bradjenkins · Joined: 13 Sep 2018 Posts: 10

Hey all - brad from the UK.

Over the summer I'd drank way too much beer and eaten to much crap - for lac k of a better term.

Anyway, I swear by doing only 10mins on the bike and 10mins on the treadmill and 10 mins doing weights.

For the bike and the treadmill, I literally go chilled for a minute and then BLAST IT for a minute...

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PhilleusPhogg · Joined: 11 May 2015 Posts: 311

bradjenkins · Joined: 13 Sep 2018 Posts: 10

Haha, nice one!