is this a normal amount of yellow/red days? ive only recently been getting red days. this is a recovery week and its still showing yellow days every other day
You’re probably logging your strength training wrong. Are you really taking that many sets to failure?
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Have you increased your planned training volume recently?
Yes I have although the vast majority is around the 55-56%ftp range. I switched my Wednesday Sweet spot to a dynamic endurance so I only have 2 high intensity workouts per week but now I have 2 dynamic endurance days. You are welcome to view my profile. I’m probably over-doing it but I don’t feel any more tired than I have dinner previously. I eat and recover well. Sleep is inconsistent as always. Even before the increase in volume I was getting plenty of yellow days, but no red days
Do you mind if I take a look and share what I see?
What was your weekly TSS / volume in hours before the switch, and what is it now?
I think you have answered your own question here.
You were already getting plenty of yellow days, so the system thought you were doing borderline too much, and then you added more volume.
If the system is going to scale back based on fatigue detection, and then you add more volume, it’ll want to scale back more, and long term you will likely end up losing out on some good quality work in lieu of adding in more and more of the low volume work.
Even if you don’t feel like you’re tired or all that burnt out from training, it doesn’t mean the central fatigue isn’t there or that it’s not potentially going to take away from your top top workouts which is what the system is looking out for.
Your options are pretty well going to be ignore the flags and just keep doing what you want and let the system eventually normalize to your level of work, or turn off the fatigue detection completely, possibly ending up with too hard of hard work for the overall load, or scale back mostly to what’s recommended by the system.
PErsonally as I used to be very high volume and super fit, and took a 4 month break, the system was feeding me very little and it seemed all I had was yellow and red days, but I knew enough about myself and my history, perceived effort that I was going to push through as I knew my own limits.
With me however I was doing a more strict volume push, so was not worried about key sessions and was willing to sacrifice them in lieu of getting more pure volume in at the time before doing a more specific ftp type build.
After a couple months the loads normalized and I rarely see yellow these days.
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Yeah, it looks like you’ve just upped your training volume quite a bit. That’s probably why you’re seeing more yellow and red right now.
If you can show the system that you can handle this new load without issues moving forward, it will relax a bit, but right now, it’s trying to get you to back off a bit to ensure that you don’t burn out over the next few weeks..
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I read somewhere that all TSS isn’t the same. I know the extra volume has increased the TSS but with most of it begin low zone 2 I was hoping it might be something I can adapt to. At the end of the day I want to ride more and I have the time. I don’t want to burn out though.
I’d ease into it then.
As of now, you’re making a good-sized jump.
Rather than simply flipping the switch of more volume, I’d progress up to what you’re looking for over a handful of weeks, only adding more volume when you know that what you’re doing feels good and is sustainable long term.
Overtraining is more of a slow roasting, so it’s not always easy to spot right away. Take your time progressing and check in with yourself often. 
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There is not much info in that image? No idea what the scale is, how much tss they are doing, how quickly it is ramping or how much of it is lower intensity.
Adding tss with something like threshold or above is very very different than adding it with lower intensity durance rides.
While not all TSS is perfectly equal, TSS still matters…
The image shows a ramp in TSS that both I and TR seem to think is too quick. 
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