hi,
I just finished a specialty phase that lead me to my first 300km ride last Saturday. The ride was great. I then took Sunday completely off, then I did some low intensity low volume workouts for these first three days. Today I looked at my form graph from intervals.icu (attached) and I realized I am at the top of the optimal zone. Does this mean my recovery week is too long? Should I shorten it? Or should I continue according to plan even if this will get me into the grey or fresh zone by Monday?
iād disregard those and go with how you feel. Joe Friel defined those tsb zones, and as far as I know heās the only person who has ever defined them, so I think the evidence for that is shaky at best
Also keep in mind that Intervals offers the option to show Form in āAbsoluteā or āPercentage of Fitnessā values. Each option can show some differences and I wonāt even venture a statement of which you should useā¦ but check it out at the very least.
Hi @redlude97
I am not sure I understand. Are you saying that if my next block does not get me into red, then itās too easy?
And what do you mean by block? 3 week block before rest? 1 week?
I followed a plan that finishes this week with a recovery week after my first 300km ride (cycling4climate).
Now I just set up plan builder for another long ride I have planned for October 8 and it gave me 3 weeks of build, followed by one recovery week (during which I will be travelling), then my event and another recovery week. As I will be travelling during the recovery weeks I plan to do some running and possibly some strength maintenance workouts.
My āTSTWKTā beta testers and I played with that (and other wrinkles) in trialing the PMC 20 y or so ago now. It didnāt really prove to very helpful.
I donāt think the chart matters as much as what your current plan is. Do you have another A event, what is next in your training plan, and how do you feel? I donāt think you should modify your training plan to fit whatās in the chart.
I think @redlude97 has some good advice
After high volume base I have hard time getting the graph even to green for a while when starting build. Doesnāt mean Iām not improving, just have to ignore it at times.
