I love what you are doing with intervals.icu. I’m using it everyday and am very happy with the steady progress. Thanks for that again.
Right now I am into planning my upcomming season. I want to include weight lifting for the first time to gain more strength at a neuromuscular level and also more overall stability. But I know that gym work will affect especially my overall training fatigue, but not directly make me more fit on the bike. I once saw a blogpost from Joe Friel and as far as I remember he recommends tracking combined ATL but seperated CTL. I think that would be a nice feature for intervals.icu too.
Furthermore I have problems to track TSS of weight training sessions. Maybe you or coach alex have any ideas about that?
Thanks! Excluding certain activity types from CTL is an interesting idea. I have added that to do the todo list. I don’t know how to go about figuring out TSS for those. Won’t be much heart rate I assume?
Yeah, using heart rate to estimate TSS for weightlifting workouts seems odd to me. Lifting weights is likely to exert more muscular than aerobic fatigue surely. So I think a measured HRTSS might be pretty low for quite a big impact on muscle soreness.
On that topic we would need a little more knowledge. Mabye @fastfitnesstips you know something more about that topic?
But still I think it is worth to think more about this topic, since so many cyclists have weight lifting workouts included in their training weeks. Maybe intervals.icu can have a feature, where athletes can enter their sets and reps and exercises and intervals.icu determines TSS or rather includes just fatique to the activity chart. That would help with planning and recovery.