# Calculate Needed Training Load?

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**Created:** [7 January 2022 20:49 UTC](https://forum.intervals.icu/t/calculate-needed-training-load/5788 "2022-01-07T20:49:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gato\_Felix](https://forum.intervals.icu/user_avatar/forum.intervals.icu/gato_felix/32/26578_2.png) [@Gato\_Felix](https://forum.intervals.icu/u/Gato_Felix)\
**Post date:** [8 January 2022 15:28 UTC](https://forum.intervals.icu/t/calculate-needed-training-load/5788/7 "2022-01-08T15:28:49Z")

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I follow a simple math explained by a coach called Alan Couzens

> [@Doubts with fitness chart](https://forum.intervals.icu/t/doubts-with-fitness-chart/5495/13):
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> Thing is that, for me, CTL is only a way to gauge my weekly ramp / training plan in a mathematical way. This came from a person called Alan Couzens ([https://www.alancouzens.com/](https://www.alancouzens.com/)) but the specific link for the bellow is out… so I’ll reproduce it bellow: "It goes like this… (assuming default constants of 42/7) Target CTL ramp rate = ~10 per month Target TSB floor (i.e. where your Training Stress Balance will bottom out at the end of a 3 week loading period) ~= -20 TSB Target daily TSS load = …

Works in a cycle of 3 weeks of loads by 1 o de recovery.

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