February 7, 2010
Performance Management
One of the charts that Neal put up at the lecture was a Performance Management Chart. The idea was that you could track your effort and workload in such a way that you could measure your “form”. Form = Fitness + Freshness, where fitness is result of training stress and freshness is the result of rest. Let’s see how I rate right now since the beginning of the season on January 1st.
The purple line, known as ATL, is the acute/short term effects of training. Workouts done in the last 14 day
The blue line, known as CTL, is the cumulative/long term effects of training. Workouts done 15 days ago and older.
The yellow line, known as TSB, is your Training Stress Balance. If it is positive number, then this would mean you would have a good chance of running well and would suggest that you are both fit and fresh. While if your TSB was a negative number, then you it would mean that you are most likely tired from a high training load, which could possibly consist of both your CTL and your ATL being high.
I like what my ATL and CTL are doing. Up and to the right. Load is increasing meaning I am working harder. But it isn’t very periodic. There should be ups and downs according to Neal.
So where is my TSB now? -74 today. The lowest of the season was -104 right before surgery. I had run 22 days non-stop. I felt fatigued. Did Green 2x in one day just before that. The rest days got me back to a -43. Do I feel like a -43? I don’t know — probably. I wanted to run this morning but my legs were tired when I thought about it laying in bed. Today is a rest day on the plan. So I think I will take a rest. This chart helps enforce that and back it up with a visual trend.
More examples and information on how to read this chart here.
There is more analysis to be done with this tool but I thought this one was cool right off the bat.
Thoughts?
