Alan Couzens, M.Sc.(Sports Science)

One of the important starting metrics to set in your ithlete profile is the starting Chronic Load and Acute Load. These two training load metrics represent a respective long term and short term average of your daily training load as you begin your ithlete plan.

In order to get your ithlete plan kicked off on the right foot, it is important that these numbers are in the right ballpark as they determine the workouts that will be available to your model e.g. if you enter 0 for each to start, the model will take that at face value and assume that you haven’t done any training in the long term or recent past and will, suitably, only pick very easy workouts to add to your initial model. On the other hand, if you are overambitious and enter an inflated Chronic Load, the key workouts that the model selects will be of a higher training load than is appropriate for you right now. As you progress through the plan and we get more data, your A.I. Coach will figure out the right Chronic Load and Acute Load for you but it will help the model out if you enter a somewhat accurate starting point to begin. So, here are a few tips to get those numbers right.

1. If you are a regular premium user of Training Peaks, you can access your current CTL and ATL numbers on your calendar or Performance Management Chart and enter those as your starting point for Chronic and Acute load in our system (Note: This assumes that you have uploaded all your workouts and done a good job in keeping your FTP numbers up to date)


2. If you don’t have good long term load data, you can estimate it using the table below…

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