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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Repairing muscle microtrauma may not be the same healing a scraped elbow, but it's also not the same as restoring creatine kinase activity.
I was trying to use a visual example that everyone has experienced to make the point that as the amount of damage increases the amount of recovery time needed increases.
In my field, the rule of thumb is often 5 time constants for a process to be considered "complete."
I don't understand what this means. Could you explain it or point me to an explanation? I don't even understand it enough to google an explanation.
Repairing muscle microtrauma may not be the same healing a scraped elbow, but it's also not the same as restoring creatine kinase activity.
I was trying to use a visual example that everyone has experienced to make the point that as the amount of damage increases the amount of recovery time needed increases.
In my field, the rule of thumb is often 5 time constants for a process to be considered "complete."
I don't understand what this means. Could you explain it or point me to an explanation? I don't even understand it enough to google an explanation.
