If my fitness number is X now and, I’d like it to be Y come March, is there a way to plan my weekly training load?
A way to see if I need to be doing approx AAA or BBB each week.
I think I could put in dummy training load, week by week, but hoping there might be a quicker way to calculate
There are a lot of variable’s. Past experience experience, current fitness level, age, goal, if you do 3x1 week or other, etc… but
In terms of just “load, fitness and form” you can assume a safe load weekly progression of +6TSS and observe your form.
At the beginning of the season look for the absolute form keeping between -10 to -30 then after look for percentage form once will be getting harder and harder (in terms of load) to keep the range on absolute terms.
TrainerRoad TSS Ramp rate
TSS = Previous week’s TSS + weekly work days *rr
Typically, a weekly ramp rate in the 6 TSS neighborhood (+/- 2 TSS) works well for most riders, so a weekly ramp rate of 15 TSS is not recommended but still useful for our needs here.
Just put this as target on intervals calendar and observe the fitness chart.
I use to make the 4th week 60% of the previous
I hope it helps
Cool, that makes a lot of sense, thank you