Tuesday, December 8, 2015

What is TSB(r) in your Load and Performance chart or PMC chart



What is TSB(r) in your Load and Performance chart or PMC chart:
TSB(r)% is another way of looking at your training stress balance, just in the form of a percentage. It still takes into account your Acute Training Load(ATL) and your Chronic Training Load(CTL), and therefore is affected by your day to day rides. It is your Acute training load(ATL) as a percentage of your Chronic training load (CTL).
So if you have a TSB(r)% of 100 then this means that you have a training stress balance of 0, and that your ATL and CTL are the exact same number. Any number above 100 shows that you are fatigued and vice versa any number below 100 shows that you are recovered and are relatively fresh. This makes this an excellent tool for monitoring fatigue and when athletes are at risk of developing an injury or illness, and through tracking an athlete can gauge what level they become at risk to injury/illness.