I’m wondering how/if people measure the fatigue from weight training and add this to the fitness chart. I currently only record total weight moved in the session and don’t bother with heart rate. I know the FFT fitness is more for endurance activities but I am wondering if anyone has a good way to include fatigue from hard gym sessions into this without boosting the fitness, just to assess fatigue?
You can capture training load for the session and have that only apply to fatigue and not fitness. This is configured in /settings:
Is there an established way to work out what the load/TTS used for this would be?
Not established, but Joe Friel (of The Cyclist’s Training Bible fame - amognst others) has mentioned the following:
An endurance athlete would do something similar—but with a new wrinkle to get TSS. After determining the tonnage for the session you’d have to decide how hard that was relative to what you normally do. If it was an average strength workout for you it could be given a TSS of 50. As the tonnage increases or decreases from the norm with each session you would assign a new TSS number either higher or lower than 50.
For example, you may find that your average weightlifting session is 3.5 tons. That would yield a TSS of 50 and would mean 14.2 TSS per ton (50 / 3.5 = 14.2). So a harder 4-ton session would be a TSS of 64. An easier 3-ton workout would have a TSS of 36.
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I’ll try this, thanks for sharing
The way I estimate TSS from gym sessions is to rate RPE and record time. Then TrainerRoad has a calculator for TSS as a function of RPE and session time. Eg one hour at RPE = 5 is TSS = 56. For one hour, as you go from RPE = 1, 2, …, 10, the correspondingTSS values are:
30, 36, 42, 49, 56, 64, 72, 82, 90, 100.
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Can I ask whether the fitness contributes to overall fitness ?
Is there a way to separate running fitness from riding fitness and swimming fitness ?
