Training status

Mick said:

now very p@ssed off

Why? Tranining Status is not a marker of your performance, but of the impact of the workout on your body. It is natural that a harder-than-usual performance leads to more fatigue (despite that you may still feel well), and that you reach into the overtraining-zone and hence need a bit more recovery, to profit from the training again.

Thanks for the reply 

I was getting “maintaining” for the last few weeks when I could feel myself I was making positive progress on my fitness. The app says “training load is enough to maintain your fitness”. generally I was doing 3 runs a week which were gradually increasing the mileage. 

25th - I did some rowing and FITT due to weather and it changed to “recovery” which would make sense  

26th & 27th - it was “maintaining” after a good run and a FITT session

28 & 29th - it changed to “productive” after a good up’ed distance run

then 30th - changed to “unproductive” after a good further up’ed distance run

In all that time it has remained in the optimal 7 day training load range and on the 30th it hit the top part of optimal.

I do find that my VO2 max takes a long time (months) to improve (by 1) and it actually dropped yesterday (by 1) even though I ran longer and faster. Also notice that last year so it’s consistent.

The app says my aerobic fitness has greatly improved over the last 4 weeks and also seeing improvement in anaerobic fitness in same period. This seems to reflect my fitness as finding I can run faster for longer over last 2-3 weeks and especially last week.

Just seems very strange to have training effect say 3 different (inconsistent) things in 6 days.

it just doesn’t seem to currently reflect my previous experience with training status over the last year or so.

so is the app telling me I need to change it up and do some active rest?

Forgot to say, I actually feel like I have more energy and could go for another run today but that will mess up the schedule and I like my rest days. 

thanks again for the reply and sorry for long reply

The best would be reading through the documents published byt FirstBeat Technologies, the provider of the analysis algorithms used by Garmin. Hopefully you'll find the answers there:

• https://content.firstbeat.com/en/firstbeat-sports-training-effect
• https://www.firstbeat.com/en/blog/the-bigger-the-training-effect-the-better/ 
• https://www.firstbeat.com/en/blog/how-to-use-training-effect/
• https://www.firstbeat.com/en/science-and-physiology/epoc-and-training-effect/
• https://www.firstbeatanalytics.com/en/features/training-effect-aerobic/
• https://www.firstbeat.com/en/training-effect-firstbeat-white-paper-2/