Sorry if this has been a long debated topic as I’ve been away from cycling/ TR for a bit, but has the idea ever been discussed to integrate data from whoop/qrnt/garmin, etc with the yellow and red days? For example, I choose to still do CrossFit 3 days a week, which certainly taxes my nervous system, but not my legs in the same way cycling does. To the contrary, the TR AI model is a bit off thinking I’m smoked when the reality is my recent workouts have hardly taxed me.
I don’t think it’s a reliable method. Some days my garmin body battery is 40 I feel great and do hard intervals, some days it’s 90-100 and I feel like old man and skip hard workout for endurance/recovery ride. I don’t think that there is any technology that beats " just how you feel". After years of tracking HRV, resting heart rate and so on I haven’t figured out if it is useful to determine how I feel.
Sure, but if we’re going to use TR and its red and yellow days, wouldn’t it be nice to have it integrated with the other data?
Yeah. I got a Garmin watch ~10 months ago and I haven’t seen any of its health metrics correlate with how I feel or perform. Things like body battery, sleep score, HR variability, etc seem pretty random.
It will be really hard to personalise it. For myself nothing will ever be better than how I feel. No metrics are reliable. Ofc if I see HRV tanking for few days I will be cautious. Another example, last week dinner I ate like pig late in the night, drank about 40-50ml white whine / I don’t drink at all/. All metrics were deep in the red zone next day, went for the ride and smashed some PRs. How will such system account for that? I am not arguing just Curious of other athletes have better way than just use pure feeling. Yellow and red days are very good for reminding me not to over do it.
I feel that extremes of those stats are good, really good predictor for illness or fatigue.
My body battery on garmin doesnt always reflect my training rediness. in fact it frequently does not. I find fueling, work stress, and sleep have huge effects, but they do not show up in the measurable metrics. (well sleep/stress might but its hard to see if you have a non traditional schedule)
Gym bro rat turned to ultra trail running /100k + races/ once told me not to train hard if there isn’t “morning wood” , wood hard = train hard, wood down=slow down. That works great until certain age. Men will relate. Best training advice I had.