How to hit the green zone (Optimal)

usually garmin will say you’re peaking because when load is low, it’s like you’re backing off to get ready for a race.

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I think a name like “Training Baseline” would be better. The baseline is based on load/intensity/time.

Before I understood this, I was constantly chasing to increase fitness number and stay in “optimal”, feeling something is wrong when I was in grey or fresh zones and devastated when the fitness number became lower. Now I am intellectually accepting that the fitness number moves up/down, even though I still have hard time with it mentally :slight_smile:

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A simple way to define current fitness/performance would be great as well as this graph. I guess Garmin tries it with ‘productive’ etc but that still doesnt take into account your changes in ftp etc over the weeks/months.

Would be great just get a single word summary - 'Your fitness and performance the last X days is: “improving” ', “steady”, declining" etc. Based on everything in the fitness graph, your ftp changes, your heart rate, and even your current ‘feeling’

Maybe even look at a couple of time periods like how you can define the seasons (I just use them as years) on the power and fitness graphs.

Perhaps it’s too complex to automate from data…

Excelente relato. Estou exatamente nesta fase… Tenho de 8 a 10 hs de treino semanal… não consigo aumentar isso neste momento. Percebi que ficar na zona “verde” do gráfico, onde teoricamente acontece a evolução do condicionamento, está cada vez mais difícil. Perseguir a zona “verde” com o mesmo volume de horas treino, acredito que é um caminho para uma lesão ou overtrainnig, pois exigirá intensidades cada vez maiores em cada sessão de treino.

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Thank you for sharing this insight Gerald. Your season power bests at the bottom of the graph shows a nice story of performance increases. I am learning more about the power of the icu graph in showing performance improvements to goals vs worrying as much about constantly trying to increase Long Term training load above a plateau. The comments in this thread about plateaus in 60-70s being normal for amateurs, and judging performance vs goals instead of load is helpful to so many of us!