Controls physical performance with fitness, fatigue and shape charts

Performance Dashboard in TrainerPlan

Controls physical performance with fitness, fatigue, and shape charts.

Training is not linear, it floats in cycles. We have shape peaks when we prepare for a competition and sometimes get worse due to situations such as an injury, for example.

It is difficult to have a global vision that makes us improve or identify periods where training did not go as expected.

how it works?

To measure the fitness level (CTL), fatigue (ATL) and form (TSB), each workout performed and synchronized from the Strava or Garmin, an effort score is assigned.

This score measures the intensity of the training and is a calculation based on the heart rate data contrasted with the second with the athlete’s personal physical data.

The performance chart analyzes this data to show the accumulated training over time.

In this way, it is possible to capture the evolution of the physical condition, as well as its loss when pausing.

Fitness, fatigue and shape

The most important thing is to increase the fitness value. Watching over training is important and more functional with the performance chart.

It’s easy to see that fatigue rises to unwanted levels simply by checking the fatigue levels on the chart and checking which workouts have brought us up to those levels through the effort score.

Fitness (Physical Conditioning)

Fitness is an exponentially weighted average of the last 42 days of training and reflects the training that has been performed in recent months.

However, the workouts performed 15 days ago will affect your physical state more than the workouts done 2 months ago. As fitness increases, fatigue will also increase, but at a higher pace.

Fatigue

Fatigue is an exponential average of the training effort of the last 7 days. When there are workouts with very high stress scores, fatigue increases considerably in response.

Form

Finally, by subtracting yesterday’s fatigue from yesterday’s physical conditioning (fitness), we get the shape line. Being in shape doesn’t mean you’re ready to run to the fullest. A negative way would indicate that you are carrying a lot of fatigue and you are not in shape.

However, by decreasing the intensity of training, we can eliminate fatigue at a higher rate than the loss of physical conditioning and regain shape on the day that matters most.

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