TrainingPeaks is the premier online training diary in the world, and it's the one I have chosen to use for the last 10 years both for my own personal training calendar and analysis, and also for those athletes that I work with. Currently I have over 500 people signed up to TrainingPeaks who are linked with me. If used properly, this platform can be used to analyse and then prepare a much more accurate training programme whether you are an athlete or a coach.

That's why it gives me great pleasure to share my conversation with today's guest, Dave Schell from TrainingPeaks.  During our chat Dave explains:

How he went to from being a TrainingPeaks customer to being their Coach Education Manager

How TSS really works

Why the Performance Management Chart (PMC) is such a great analysis tool

What TSS, CTL, ATL & TSB stand for and how the scores are calculated

The ideal Training Stress balance score that you should have before your A races

How to use individual PMC’s for each sport to predict training load during a taper

The optimal weekly TSS and target CTL scores https://help.trainingpeaks.com/hc/en-us/articles/230904648-Suggested-Weekly-TSS-and-Target-CTL

How to calculate TSS for strength training (which you can read more about here—>>>http://www.joefrielsblog.com/2016/02/the-weightlifting-pmc-part-1.html

When and How TrainingPeaks can save coaches a ton of time in their weekly programme preparation

To access the TSB/form chart mentioned in this episode, please go to http://www.joefrielsblog.com/2015/12/managing-training-using-tsb.html.

To find out more about TrainingPeaks or Dave Schell please email [email protected].  To access the TrainingPeaks blog for a mountain of awesome posts go to https://www.trainingpeaks.com/blog/.  If you are an athlete, find out more about how you can use TrainingPeaks at https://www.trainingpeaks.com/athlete-features/.  If you are a coach find out more about how you can use TrainingPeaks at https://www.trainingpeaks.com/coach-features/.

For more information please go to www.SimonWardTriathlonCoach.com, or www.TheTriathlonCoach.com, or email [email protected].