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Re: Measures of training stress in cyclists - Study [Steve Irwin]
Steve Irwin wrote:
Yes, I've yet to find a way to incorporate TSB into an improved numerical predictor of performance compared to just using CTL.

In part, that could be because you're focused on TT power, whereas it is short-term power that it really impacted by how "fresh" you are. For example, there's a study soon to be published in Med Sci Sports Exerc showing that even doing intervals the morning before followed by 2 h of tempo the afternoon before only slowed cyclists by 1 min in a simulated 40 km TT compared to when they were fully rested. When you consider studies like this one (or frequency distributions of TSB at time of a power PB for shorter vs. longer durations), it really becomes rather worrisome that the impulse-response model (upon which the PMC is based, and as fully implemented in RaceDay) has never been validated using a performance test longer than 5 min in duration. But, these are probably more thoughts that are going to be lost on 99.99% of people...
Last edited by: Andrew Coggan: Jul 9, 14 8:00

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