Why doesn't my acute/training load work?

7702931c9167405584d0bab50533289b 10 months ago

I've done a few activities during the past few days that cause load (92 yesterday and 48 today) but my acute load just keeps on decreasing and the watch says I'm in "recovery" even though I've worked out more than during the past weeks. It also seems like the past few weeks there is an increase in acute load only on one day even though you can see excercise load from many activities. I record everything with Fenix 7 and edge 1040 and haven't noticed this before past weeks.

0 Etupes25 10 months ago

I look at your charts, and I don't see anything blatantly wrong, knowing that the acute load is a weighted average of your training load over the last 7 days. The weights favor recent activities, and diminish the contribution of older activities.

In your charts, you can see how the early anaerobic activities took your AL from o to 200. and then it stayed about stable as the load was about the same for the next few days. Then you stopped training and the AL decayed back to 0. You had a big day that jolted the AL, but then much easier days, so the capital of the big day eroded day after day. Eventually you had some recent activity.

"NOTE: Acute load is formulaically a weighted sum of all training from the past week. It is not possible to arrive at the value simply by adding the load measurement in your recent activities."

https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=C6iHdy0SS05RkoSVbFz066

7702931c9167405584d0bab50533289b said:
there is an increase in acute load only on one day even though you can see excercise load from many activities

It is the result of the weighting, IMO. On July 1, you had some a little of anaerobic load that pushed your AL up. On July 2, you had a more significant load, but you lost the contribution of the 25th of June, and 26/6 and 27/6 started being discounted more. So it is not surprising the AL went down despite your July 2 effort.

Note: you have a lot of anaerobic efforts. Do you feel that these activities were pushing your body to the maximum of its capabilities?

0 2529455 10 months ago

You went from 0 acute training load to 400 in a single workout, and then you've been putting in pretty low load sessions since then (40s, 50s etc). I'd say something has gone a little whacky with your heart rate during that single big workout which has skewed the 7 day (accute) load.

Double-check what you've got your max heart rate set to (always best to set it manually rather than leave it set to automatic). Maybe also have a look at what happened during that big workout. My guess is that there might have been an issue with your heart rate strap which was causing it to register an excessively high heart rate for the entire duration.

In my experience it's pretty rare to see an a single 300+ plus activity be anaerobic. You'd really be working to achieve that.