I’ve recentry started gym weight workouts, and the weather has been wet lately, so more time in the gym. But looking at the training load, it seems to be using incorrect values for gym workouts.
Case in point attached, Thurs 18 July 2024 (yesterday), it shows a load of over 200, for a gym workout only day, which I did have weights, and only 35 mins on a cross trainer machine. I don’t feel this load is correct for the workout.
Tuesday 16 July is a gym weights only day, and the load is almost as much as the following days 90 mins 30/30’s, which feels wrong, at least aerobically.
Am I looking at this right? Is load also muscle weight training load, or only aerobic load?
Hi @AMNZ ,
The only real way we can get insight into the session load of an S&C session is via HR, which misses the neuromuscular/musculoskeletal load of course. For this, we use the time x default threshold HR from your settings. I don’t see the 200 number you refer to however. Of course, you are wise to adjust this load number as it appears you may have, especially when you consider it up against your cycling workouts and gauge stress relative to those ones.
Best,
Paul
Understood, but it still seems overcooked. The 206 number is Thursday’s load on the bar chart popup on the Perfromance Potential Page load chart at the bottom, my 1st attachment.
I don’t get how that got so high from the actual workout on on the Thursday.
Just noticed that a strength gym workout, will give a much higher load (on performance potiential graphs) if you set the RPE to 7 - very high, which I have been setting, as it was a very hard effort at lifting weights. Doesn’t seem quite right, but I’ll leave the RPE blank from now on for the gym.
Thanks @AMNZ. This has been reported before by other Athletica users, and also in the literature, and we’ll look to see if we can make some small tweaks in our algorithms accordingly.
Interesting study Prof. I’m not sure I completely understand it, especially the differences in the workout types.
Since my gym weight workouts have HR data, shouldn’t that take precidence over RPE x time = load calc?
I could be wrong, but I thought the TRIMP model, was for aerobic fitness, so a weight lifting gym workout should contribute minimally anyway you calculate it.
