In threads where training philosophy comes up, discussions of TRIMPS and TSS and other training models occasionally intrude. These models are not very well known, and even more poorly understood, so probably SolarEnergy, qbrain and I are just talking to each other and killing threads in those conversations. In any case, I figured I would present a brief overview of what it is that we're talking about when this terminology starts showing up.
Best case, this will introduce these models to the subset of swimmers (or coaches) who would be interested enough to use them, but didn't previously know enough to do so.
Plus, even if you're not the type to be interested in quantifying your training, it can be useful to think about workouts in this general framework.
And, at the very least, this might serve as a place to discuss some of the details without worrying about driving those other threads too far off-topic.
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Whether you meant it to or not, I think the combination of your energy points together with the impulse-response model is, in fact, a decent method of modeling swim training. Sufficiently simple to actually use (for me), unlike others that may be impractical or too complex. I truly wonder though if it would not benefit from a weighting factor RPE based, so that it automatically gets this individual intensity factor common to all other scoring system being processed through Trimp-like rolling avg functions.
Such a simple RPE based weighting factor would therefore factor in Economy. If economy improves, energy to swim a given distance in a given time goes down. Q's actual scoring system can not capture this. And if it doesn't get captured, both CTL and ATL will artificially get boosted, as you progress into your season.
Anyway, my :2cents:
Whether you meant it to or not, I think the combination of your energy points together with the impulse-response model is, in fact, a decent method of modeling swim training. Sufficiently simple to actually use (for me), unlike others that may be impractical or too complex. I truly wonder though if it would not benefit from a weighting factor RPE based, so that it automatically gets this individual intensity factor common to all other scoring system being processed through Trimp-like rolling avg functions.
Such a simple RPE based weighting factor would therefore factor in Economy. If economy improves, energy to swim a given distance in a given time goes down. Q's actual scoring system can not capture this. And if it doesn't get captured, both CTL and ATL will artificially get boosted, as you progress into your season.
Anyway, my :2cents:
