Achieving a Stress Balance

𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞

Stress Scores, calculated for each workout, represent each workout’s metabolic stress – its impact on your body.

You can use these scores to model the shorter-term and longer-term impacts from each workout.

Combining these, you can obtain a Stress Balance, indicating whether your training is ‘productive’.

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠

How does your Stress Balance help ensure your training is productive?

Your stress balance is the difference between the longer-term impacts and the shorter-term impacts:
🔹 A very positive balance indicates detraining or a lack of any meaningful training.
🔹 A positive balance may indicate tapering or a missed workout.
🔹 A negative balance indicates productive training – enough stress to encourage adaptations, but not so much that there is a greater risk of injury or over-training.
🔹 A very negative balance may indicate over-training, with a greater risk of injury.

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞?

You can use your stress balance to monitor your training, but be aware that:
🔹 You need 80+ days of workout data for your stress balance to be accurate (because of the way the model works)
🔹 You should track your scores and compare them to how you actually feel to build your experience of what your stress balance represents (for you)

Nevertheless, your stress balance is a useful way to monitor whether your training is productive.

𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒏’𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒆 𝑹𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑷𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓?

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