As grossly inaccurate as the Strava Fitness & Freshness graph is I find it super motivating to keep up or add in extra workouts when I see my form slipping. Would love TR to add something like this for us to check out from time to time. With progression levels being reset each month it would be nice to see something big picture. Thoughts?
FWIW I find it hilarious that Strava has me on a downward slide since starting TR.
Maybe you have already reviewed this, but the Training Stress section on the TR website seems like it might suit your needs?
Sadly, this is one of those few features that is only accessible on the web vs the many TR app options, so it is restrictive to a point, but it is useful when you get there.
This allows scrolling and even a quick preview of the week of interest, which then allows you to open specific events related to the TSS in the numeric chart towards the bottom.
It also shows your FTP change history, so itâs a quick way to see your progression there in contrast to the TSS history.
And if you mouse over and hover on a given week, you see a summary of data
You can set a range from 1 to for years, to see longer term trends or a single year.
And my final edit is the official support article and video for this tool (which should have likely been the opening part of this reply 
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Iâm familiar with that chart but in all seriousness it gives me brain aids. So much going on and somehow, it seems to tell little. I also donât see the significance of week to week TSS as one can add a ton of TSS without improving fitness. My projected TSS from TR from week to week doesnât build either. Not sure why. I had assumed that there would be an increase of load from week to week but when I check the difference is minimal at best. Also t heâs chart doesnât show a cumulative progression over the long term so Iâm not inspired by say the little diamonds lost in the chart that you pointed out. Actually the first time Iâm seeing them. Perhaps because I havenât been with TR long enough. A line graph linking the diamonds of FTP over time might be cool.
Honestly though. I just prefer the simplicity of the Strava graph. That may be because Iâm simple. 
I guess I am confused. The Strava line graph above is nearly identical to the one in the TR TS graph. Sure, there are the green bars with TSS mixed in, but the bottom 1/4 of the Strava graph is that same basic data.
In those two aspects, they show the same info, just in slightly different ways (Strava = separate/stacked, TR = overlapped). Maybe TR could add the option to show one, the other or both with a radio button as one possible improvement to âsimplifyâ.
This is a question best directed to TR support for review. A âprogressionâ is related directly to the workouts and rides pulled into the data.
As you can see, I have a decent ramp present in my chart which is following TR plans (Low Vol this season) along with manually added Endurance rides and such. That also includes the results of AT tweaking the plan on my calendar along the way. So if you are not getting trends you expect, TR should be consulted.
I guess asking this in a different way, what metric(s) and/or method of tracking would you like to see that isnât offered in the Training Stress chart at present? Or do you just want a stripped down version more like the Strava one?
I just find this interesting, because commonly we hear TR users lament how little info is offered in this area and ask for more. More than a few people add things like Training Peaks, WKO, Intervals.icu and the like to get deeper info. TR has insisted on keeping this more bare bones option compared to those, even if itâs a touch more info than the Strava version.
Ironically, most people turn to ICU for MORE information. This request seems aimed at getting LESS info than TRâs TS chart at least.
Itâs totally possible though, since the ICU charts are fully customizable by the user, for charts and data on display there.
On a related note, it would be interesting to see PLs change over time. I understand theyâre perpetually moving up, resetting, moving up, and resetting, but Iâd be interested to see where I was last summer at this time, or right before that big race last spring, etc.
Not a priority, but more data to geek out on.
Thereâs an open request for that if you want to add your â+1â to it.
@AussieRider Iâm with you, and the power curve stuff in Strava is really nice too. Add a dash of Sauce to make it even better.
I could be wrong but Strava only seems to calculate on long frequent outdoors riding. When I have been doing that in the past the number has been sky high but now I am doing shorter more targeted TR stuff or shorter TTs, whilst I am arguably getting fitter results wise the strava f&f score has went down
Iâll need to check it out. Itâs definitely one of those things where youâre not going to able to make everyone happy (not that Iâm unhappy!). Iâll take another look at the graph. Maybe Iâm not reading it correctly. Thanks. 
TR is a 6 week average, while Strava/TrainingPeaks/Intervals/etc show a weighted (exponential) 7 week average as per the definition of CTL.
Similar but the shape of the CTL/Fitness line will be a bit different versus the line of TRâs 6 week average.
On the fitness score I can see the last 12 months?
its calculated from the daily TSS over 7 6 weeks, using exponential weighting. And then you can show 1 year or 2 years or whatever.
Itâs an ongoing average of your daily training (TSS load) specifically looking at the last six weeks or 42 days of data points.
Traditionally, CTL is a weighted average of your daily TSS for the last 6 weeks, with greater emphasis placed on more recent workouts. TrainerRoad uses a simplified equivalent calculation, displaying your rolling average TSS from the last 6 weeks with no exponential weighting applied.
So itâs a similar 6 weeks, but a slightly different calc excluding the exponential aspect apparently.
you arenât wrong, for some reason I declared a âWindWarrior 6 dayâ week and so in that alternate universe it was 7 âWindWarrior 6 dayâ weeks 
100%. When I put in more miles my fitness climbs. Now that Iâm doing more focused work on TR is dropping. Hence why I said it was inaccurate. It would be nice to see something in the format with a better degree of accuracy. Perhaps thatâs just a measure/projection of FTP or a cumulative score of PLâs. I donât know. Food for thought!
I mean having something like this. So you can see the progression over the long term. This crappy example has a recovery week every fourth week. Hence the dip.
Sorry to throw cold water on this but:
I find these fitness graphs tell you little. They base themselves heavily on TSS. It fails heavily when trying to capture anything outside of cycling.
The first portion of this where my âFitnessâ is at its best I was doing a triathlon plan sans swims. Due to life constraints I couldnât get on the bike and just had to stick to lunch runs. I am not going to say the run I have highlighted is fast for me but it is a decent effort and yet my TSS is low continuing to lower my âFitnessâ. Not to mention the fact that when calculating TSS it is only looking at pace. It doesnât have power metrics or any terrain data. Not to mention the physical toll on the body from a run is greater than a road cycling workout at the same effort.
TSS is a relative metric just like everything everyone seems to get hung up on. Someone with a 400 Watt FTP doing the same workout as someone with a 200 Watt FTP will get the same score. I am working to get my weight back under control but overall I would say I am fitter than I was in the peak of this image although my fitness score doesnât reflect that. I focus on consistently getting my workouts completed more than any fit score.
/Rant
Context is everything. Not literally fitness, CTL is a weighted training load over 6 weeks. Works well to track increases if you do a lot of endurance riding during base, and supplement with a little bit of tempo and sweet spot. And if you are following that model of training, at some point you are going to âdraw downâ and let CTL decline when switching to more race like preparation.
Mine has been going down since starting specialty. The only time it goes up is in base
