What is a good CTL training Peaks?
The rate at which your CTL should climb is very variable athlete to athlete, but generally 5-8 TSS/day per week is a good ballpark to start with. See the diagram below for illustration. The higher your cumulative (absolute) CTL, the less you will be able to load.
What’s a good fitness number on training Peaks?
Joe Friel has mentioned numerous times that an ideal TSB range for a peak performance falls between +15 and +25. While zero indicates the athlete has reached a training equilibrium, complete recovery is often needed for peak performance, especially for long-distance racing.
Is training Peaks any good?
TrainingPeaks is the winner for analysis capabilities, although the free version is a little limited, the paid version is very capable in both single workout analysis and longer term reviews and planning. TrainingPeaks beats Strava as a planning tool and if you want to work with training plans.
How do you maximize training peaks?
Maximizing Your Use of the TrainingPeaks Calendar: A Coach’s Guide
- Adding Events. Target events, training events, life events, whatever!
- Use the Goal Function.
- Maximize the Post Activity Comment Function.
- Make Use of the ‘Other’ or ‘Custom’ Profiles.
- Attaching Files.
- Teach Your Athletes How to Use the Calendar.
What CTL should I aim for?
I recommend setting peak bike and run Fitness (CTLs) separately based on percentages of Bike Threshold Power and Functional Threshold Pace for the run (see the guidelines below). To get from a Fitness (CTL) of 100 to 110 over the course of a month, loading days should be about 130 TSS/d.
What should TSS be a week?
Base on actual CTL you can come up with a total TSS number per week if your CTL is around 40 we would recommend starting with around 300-350 TSS per week. Don’t forget about periodization, you should be increasing your training load every week by about 3-7 TSS per day, which means 21-49 TSS per week.
How fast can you increase CTL?
about 5 to 8 points per week
While it depends to a great extent on who the athlete is, I’ve found that an increase in CTL of about 5 to 8 points per week is about right for most.
