![]() For a B race you will probably want your Form trending positive and between negative 10 and 0. You’re not “on form.” That may be OK for a C priority race. When it’s below negative 10 you’re probably too tired to race well. As mentioned above, Form is closely related to your readiness to race. I don’t know if this is physiological or psychological. For some unknown reason there are athletes who perform best when their Form is just barely positive, around plus 5 to plus 10. I’ve found that usually produces the best results. When I’m tapering and peaking athletes for A-priority races I like to have their Form at around plus 15 to plus 25 on race day. So what do the Form numbers mean and how can you use them to be race ready? Let’s dig a little deeper using exact Form numbers as guidelines. ![]() If Form is positive then you are probably rested and perhaps on form- if it doesn’t get too high. ![]() If Form is negative you are likely to be tired and probably not race ready. #TRAINING STRESS BALANCE FORECASTING SOFTWARE#Once the software has done the math, the remainder is your Form (by the way, the resulting Form value is for tomorrow-not for today.) It can be either a negative or a positive number depending on which is greater- Fitness or Fatigue. ![]() Both Fatigue and Fitness are expressed as Training Stress Score, or TSS per day (TSS/d). So how is Form determined? It’s the result of subtracting today’s Fatigue (Acute Training Load, or ATL) from today’s Fitness ( Chronic Training Load, or CTL). Training Stress Balance (TSB), the yellow line on the Performance Management Chart, is merely a way of describing what we call “Form.” What is Form? In a single phrase, it is race readiness. ![]()
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