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Whatever your favorite sport is, training regularly puts strain on your body.
Cody Stephenson is the head of education at fitness platform TrainingPeaks.
He is also a qualified coach and a bike racer with 30 years of experience.
What is chronic training load?
In TrainingPeaks youll also see it called fitness.
How is chronic training load calculated?
This is measured through another metric with a three letter acronym; your training stress score or TSS.
Intensity times duration gives you that individual session number.
A single workout in TrainingPeaks might be 60 TSS or 120 TSS or 300 TSS.
What is the difference between acute and chronic training load?
This balance between CTL and ATL is measured usinganothermetric, your training stress balance, or TSB.
This increase is measured through another term ramp rate (no three letter acronym this time, thankfully).
Can you use chronic training load to avoid injury?
It is that balance between ATL and CTL, says Stephenson.
It makes sense, right?
Should you include activity outside workouts in chronic training load?
But if you want to include them, you could as long as you’re consistent.
Every time you do it, include it, or always ignore them, then it will be accurate.
How does recovery factor into chronic training load?
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