Training Peaks

stenard · Joined: 04 Sep 2013 Posts: 2063

Depends what period you count.
Per my IM preview blog post, since being coached from November last year, up to the week before the race (41 weeks), I apparently did 445hrs of SBR, so nearly 11hrs per week across that entire period.

I logged most weeks in a bit more detail on the "Training? What Training?" thread, but summarising and looking at the final 7wks of build to my peak week, I did:
15.25hrs, 16.5hrs, 9.5hrs (stag do), 17.25hrs, 16.5hrs, 14.25hrs and 18.5hrs.

18.5 was definitely my highest, and concluded with a diy LCW, with over 11hrs on the Fri/Sat/Sun.
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PCP · Joined: 13 Oct 2012 Posts: 2005 Location: Manchester

Cheers Stenard, that’s really interesting. I was guessing at around 8-10 hours a week then 14-20 peak weeks so not far away if I manage to stay consistent with quality sessions.

Jorgan · Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2018 1:17 pm Post subject:

I think I maybe need to tweak my threshold for swimming, I reckon it was too low at 1:35 pace. Nudged it down to 1:32, as if I'm swimming reps at 1:35 with the PB & any of the paddles, it's really not a threshold effort.

Interestingly back onto the TSB issue. So Saturday I was at -34 (I did feel drained by Fri), and Sunday it was down to -26...where upon I smashed-out a 30km Z3 effort on the bike, which didn't feel that bad at all (a race pace effort). So it makes me wonder that if my TSB/Form is back above -10 for Sunday I should be fine.
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Magnacarter · Joined: 07 Jul 2010 Posts: 22

Apologies if its teaching grandma to suck eggs, but it might help someone struggling with TP terminology..... what helped me to start with was to follow the somewhat oversimplistic thinking by considering CTL as fitness, and ATL as tiredness, with TSB the difference between the two.... you can raise your TSB by either being fitter, or less tired....of course, its more complicated than that, as TSB alone won’t give you the answer, as you can have a low TSB and still far too tired to race well, but its a good start!

Poet. · Joined: 06 Aug 2013 Posts: 390

Is there a quick way to upload planned workouts?

The GUI is a pain in the backside and pretty slow...

...surely coaches just upload a CSV in a pre-defined format?

Magnacarter · Joined: 07 Jul 2010 Posts: 22

create them as library workouts, and then, at least on a PC interface, its drag and drop, and you can copy and paste a day or a week at a time.... takes just a few mins to build several months worth if your training is reasonably conistent week in week out.... its less easy on a tablet, epecially the copy and paste, but its still doable.

Trialot · Joined: 12 Dec 2018 Posts: 2 Location: UK

Guys,

I'm looking at getting a 24 week Ironman programme from Training Peaks. Just curious if this can be automatically populated into the planned workouts on the TP calendar? Also, I assume it will require a premium subscription.

Thanks for your help.

Poet. · Joined: 06 Aug 2013 Posts: 390

I believe that if you buy a Training Peaks training programme and Premium account, then everything goes into it all nice and easy.

I've managed to create some workouts now, which is great, as they let me know the TSS and from this we can see what the CTL for the week might be...all very useful.

Speaking of which, does anyone here plan their training based on the ATL/CTL/TSB/TSS, using a data science approach to it?

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