Seems for me that Training Status is doing a reasonable job of predicting correct training levels. Anyone aware of a way you can use this for planning training as opposed to just reviewing the impact of completed training?
Mental note of what training "worked" and what did not I guess.
It is not that simple though is it as you might do a mega session one day and see an immediate "dip" but then get a super compensation effect few days later.
Also it is impossible to keep your training "Productive" indefinitely but equally sticking on "Unproductive" for ages should ring alarm bells.
Personally I view it as a useful check that things are going vaguely in the right direction.
Tim, yes, agreed, what I am saying is that it would be good to plot expected values for future training based on the same algorithm and planned training to see potential impact of your training plan and possibly make adjustments similar to using TSS in TrainingPeaks.
Mental note of what training "worked" and what did not I guess.
It is not that simple though is it as you might do a mega session one day and see an immediate "dip" but then get a super compensation effect few days later.
Also it is impossible to keep your training "Productive" indefinitely but equally sticking on "Unproductive" for ages should ring alarm bells.
Personally I view it as a useful check that things are going vaguely in the right direction.
hi Tim - what's your experience with training status? after using my watch for a couple of weeks now, i note my training status for last couple of runs has moved to "unproductive", training load is still in the optimal range. trying to figure out why my training is suddenly unproductive - i am following a running programme, with usual mix of intervals, longer easy runs, some cross training etc...i did a good quality interval session 2 days ago, rest day yesterday and a tempo run today, and both of these last 2 activities are" unproductive" which i find weird as they were both quality in my mind! (although i did note my estimated VO2 max dropped 1 point 62-61, probably as the intervals were on grass.....
Productive/unproductive does seem to be a function of increasing/decreasing VO2 Max which, in turn, can certainly be influenced by the difficulty of the terrain you run on. Some hope of detecting elevation (although hard to say if it does factor it in - when asked while back said there was some allowance) but not of grass/trail/synthetic track/road.
I do also think that if you are on a training programme, you are getting through the sessions reasonably well and aren't injured then unless if you have a race coming up there is always a certain element of being "unproductive" while you adapt to the load.
That's the problem with an up or down arrow - you can't realistically be up indefinitely.
