I tried to look through most of the posts here to see if it’s addressed. But I am having trouble wrapping my mind around some of the example exercises and how they are being classed as near enough to failure to count in the sets of exercises. I train with RPE or RIR - mostly using the RPE as the negative of the RIR, and practice working sets at 7-9 RPE, meaning that 1-3 reps are left “in reserve.” I think this relationship scales a bit with the total number of reps in the set, but that’s another topic.
Currently, I’m in a reverse taper after my final event (as written by Lyss Method), so on the whole none of the sets count for fatigue profiling by TrainerRoad.
What’s confusing me is the Burpee and Sit-up inclusion. Are these weighted exercises for this example? It’s just harder to imagine 10 burpees or 15 sit-ups being a set to failure. I think core exercises or very dynamic things like burpees are harder to take to near failure. It’s almost like those should be classed with the amount of effort. Like were the jumps on the burpees at 100% effort. I don’t know, just spitballing, but maybe that would be future work on movement to increase Power.
I’m looking forward to a winter strength phase and to see how it affects my recommendations by Trainerroad. The push towards accounting for holistic training is one of the reasons I’ve kept my TrainerRoad subscription for many years and why I will be using the platform for the first time in many years this winter.
One last question: I didn’t see anywhere if entering an estimated TSS for strength training was needed or beneficial?