I don't think I've seen it described this way before, at least in a swimming context. Interesting idea.
Basically, it is expressed in term of a score per day.
This score is obtained by somehow (allow me to skip the nitty-gritty details here) multiplying duration * intensity. In cycling, a score of 100 is equivalent to performing 60min flat out over the duration.
A roadie will want to get the base to grow up to 100tss/d. In other words, they grow their base to an extent where they're able to perform a 60min TT per day.
A trackie, say a kilo specialist (an event that lasts 1min05 roughly) will rather want to grow his base up to 60tss/d.
They deposit to their Base for a long period of time, then when comes the time to train more specifically for their event, they withdraw from it.
Cyclists and coaches all have their own little graphs where they can track:
- The magnitude of their base (CTL)
- The magnitude of the fatigue generated along the base building process (ATL)
- The fitness peaks (TLB)
The question you frequently see nowadays is: How big should my base be, given that I want to later in the season specialize for this or that event duration.
This is how these graphs look like (ref: my PMC for 2008). The blue line (that constantly grows) is my Base. The pink one is the fatigue curve. The yellow one is (Base - Fatigue = Fitness)
pic20.picturetrail.com/.../372583549.jpg
I don't think I've seen it described this way before, at least in a swimming context. Interesting idea.
Basically, it is expressed in term of a score per day.
This score is obtained by somehow (allow me to skip the nitty-gritty details here) multiplying duration * intensity. In cycling, a score of 100 is equivalent to performing 60min flat out over the duration.
A roadie will want to get the base to grow up to 100tss/d. In other words, they grow their base to an extent where they're able to perform a 60min TT per day.
A trackie, say a kilo specialist (an event that lasts 1min05 roughly) will rather want to grow his base up to 60tss/d.
They deposit to their Base for a long period of time, then when comes the time to train more specifically for their event, they withdraw from it.
Cyclists and coaches all have their own little graphs where they can track:
- The magnitude of their base (CTL)
- The magnitude of the fatigue generated along the base building process (ATL)
- The fitness peaks (TLB)
The question you frequently see nowadays is: How big should my base be, given that I want to later in the season specialize for this or that event duration.
This is how these graphs look like (ref: my PMC for 2008). The blue line (that constantly grows) is my Base. The pink one is the fatigue curve. The yellow one is (Base - Fatigue = Fitness)
pic20.picturetrail.com/.../372583549.jpg
