ARE FUNCTIONAL STRENGHT WORKOUTS WORTH ANY TSS POINTS?

Juan Vergara

I wonder if I should keep track of my strength/functional workouts and attribute TSS points to those? or don´t bother? If yes, how to "calculate"? Any advice in the haus?

Al Truscott

I record the time involved, but assign no training stress to it. My reasoning...whether I lift weights or not has no impact on any subsequent workouts, even one immediately following. But I'm not doing Crossfit, just 30 minutes without much sweat or heavy breathing.

If you are working hard enough to degrade your ability to do another s/b/r workout later that day, then it is a training stress, I think.

ironmikega

My n=1: there is value to tracking the workout. I like to look back at history and see how I prepared for a particular event, or what I was doing when my body comp and racing weight gave me the best performance. Or to explain the weird pain in my shoulder (was it a record setting Fran workout or the 3 3k swims last week?)

I am a numbers junkie and not having scores associated drive me crazy from time to time. Particularly if I am looking at acute training load graphs and see things that look like off days, but I was really in the weight room or doing cross fit. I can't say though that I ever looked back at a performance and thought "gee, that weight workout really impaired today's performance"

Joe Friel wrote a good post a few years back on estimating TSS based on RPE or HR Zone and duration. Check it out at http://www.trainingbible.com/joesblog/2009/09/estimating-tss.html if you want a guide on estimating TSS for those workouts.

MattAaronson

Every so often I wear a hear rate monitor when I do my strength work. I upload it to TP and it gives me a TSS score that I manually-input for workouts going forward. For reference, a 10-minute myrtle routine is 5 TSS points. For a 20-minute core routine it ends up being 11 points.