TSS score gave me how much training benefit i got from the workout but if i had looked at my TRIMPS score i would have likely seen just how much that workout had given me a kick to the head. and the next few days i was in a bad way. i thought i was going to die! when i looked at my power meter it was in tempo territory but HR was more indicative of how i was feeling. max daily temp before that was around teens to 20C and then on the day of the crit it went up to 32C (60sF -> 90F) an humid. they are not necessarily the same thing.Į.g. sometimes they track really well but sometimes, like in the example you gave in extreme heat, humidty etc. how bagged you will be the next and coming days (but not for supermaximal type stuff). how much your training benefit you get from a workout) where as TRIMPS is a good indicator of training strain i.e. TSS is really a good indicator of Training Stress (i.e. I guess if I did this enough times in sessions of varying intensity and duration I'd begin to get a rough feel of what one score is to another.Īlternatively, I believe the Computrainer generates enough raw HR data that I could accurately convert TSS to TRIMPS on all my indoors sessions but really what I want to do is convert TRIMPS to TSS, not the other way around.Ĭlick to expand.this kind of aludes to where i was coming from in the first place. I'm not sure how useful that would be in extrapolating to other workouts though. I'd be able to determine both the TRIMPS and TSS score for that particular session. Two possibilities for a getting a rough idea would be to ride my Computrainer with its HRM while at the same time using my Polar HRM. I do understand that TRIMPS = exercise duration x average HR x an intensity-dependent weighting factor and TSS = (s x W x IF)/(FTP x 3600).

It would be nice to roughly approximate what a TRIMPS score is to a TSS score since my coach and my primary training diary use TSS. I use an HRM outdoors when training on my mountain bike which gives me my TRIMPS and a Computrainer indoors which gives me my TSS. Is there any way to correlate a TRIMPS score to a TSS score? (Certainly, when used as inputs for the impulse-response model of Bannister there isn't a lot of reason to favor one over the other.although in the few cases I've examined, which happen to include a lot of supramaximal intervals, TSS seems to work a bit better.) I would therefore say that the best way to view them is as simply two different ways of estimating the training load, one based on heart rate and one based on power, and essentially leave it at that. strain hinges in part on the considerations listed in 1-3 above. Moreover, which is a better measure of stress vs. However, not all TSS points are created equal, which makes it difficult to say that TSS is a direct measure of the training stimulus (i.e., you have to take the composition of said TSS into account). If you accept this premise, then what you have concluded above would, at least at first, seem logical. Philosophically, you could argue that since power is the independent variable and heart rate is a dependent variable, TSS is a measure of stress, while TRIMP is a measure of strain. 1) TRIMP is based upon heart rate, and thus may be somewhat more variable due to extraneous influences.Ģ) TRIMP is based upon heart rate, and thus gives you less 'credit' for supramaximal efforts (i.e., there is a ceiling effect, in that heart rate can't exceed maximal heart rate).ģ) On the other hand, TRIMP places more weighting upon intensity, which may tend to counteract the impact of point #2 above.

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