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A year and a half ago, I put together my own heatmap of a year’s worth of my cycling in Boston, which you can see here.

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However, a recent offer of a free month of premium access finally lured me in.Īlthough it’s not the main point of this post, the first thing I had to look at was those heatmap charts. For myself, the ability to create my own heatmaps wasn’t sufficient reason to pay for access.

Like many sites, Strava gives free users access to most of their functionality, but saves some advanced features for paying members. While that might be how it is for them, that doesn’t confer upon them the right to judge others for whom Strava’s information actually enhances their cycling experience. But there’s been a bit of backlash from non-competitive riders who think preoccupation with “the numbers” detracts from the pleasure of riding. There’s no question of the value it provides. Sports Exerc.Amongst cyclists, there are mixed opinions about Strava, the social network that promotes tracking, analysis, and sharing the GPS logs of one’s rides. Relationship with competition performance. et al (2005) How do endurance runners actually train? et al (2003) Tour de France versus Vuelta a Espana: which is Even those looking to lose weight can use this as a great way to get motivated by aiming to keep score of their TRIMP points – a lot more valid than just hours spent riding.

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Not only that but pro cyclists’ racing efforts, elite runners’ competition build up and well trained XC skiers appear to support TRIMP as a valid system. So we don’t have universal exact percentages of where Z1 and Z2 exist but it is a novel way to calculate the training or fitness value of a session. Conversely it means that 7 hours are spent below 75% HRmax – every minute above is increasing your Z2 score and not your Z1 score. So for a rider with 10 hours training this means 120mins in Z2 and 60mins in Z3 – at the very most. Yes, top end efforts were done but only 20 and 10% in Z2 and Z3 respectively. In fact in national level athletes the Z1 training volume was shown to be the most significant factor in determining performance in an event of around 35 minutes. Sorry it’s not an exact number but it equates to most of your training being mostly steady. Research on cross country skiers, backs up the runners’ data referred to earlier that close to three quarters of your training should be less than three quarters effort (or somewhere under 70-80% of HRmax. that base building is a key foundation to fitness and that high-end sessions are needed if you wish to compete but not more than about 20% of total volume.

The research so far – and I must stress that TRIMP, like other zoning formulas, is a theory and not a fact – backs up several concepts, eg. Monday, Wednesday and Friday give the required R&R, by Wednesday four days in a row will mean a day off is vital (accumulative four day score of 614 TRIMP). Granted it’s hard to go hard but the body also gets tired when you go long, or long and fairly hard. It can be seen that the Tuesday and Sunday sessions are actually harder than the race of the week. TRIMP CALCULATION Consider a rider’s TRIMP points (pts) as he spends five days on the bike: MON Rollers recovery: 60min Z1 (60 TRIMP) TUE Chain Gang: 30min Z1, 15min Z2, 55min Z3 (225 TRIMP) WED Rest THR Interval session: 22min Z1, 20min Z2, 35min Z3 (167 TRIMP) FRI Rest SAT Club ‘10’: 25min Z1, 10min Z2, 28min Z3 (129 TRIMP) SUN Long club Ride: 160min Z1, 20min Z2 (200 TRIMP).Different ways to get a similar TRIMP value. So a 3h ride in Z1 (180×1) gives 180 points but a 25-mile TT effort with 10mins in Z2 (10×2) and 52mins in Z3 (52×3) gives a TRIMP score of 20+156 = 176. Thus using the weighting value of each minute in the respective zones a total TRIMP Value can be calculated. So a rider with a HR max of 185 has zone junctions at 139 and 159. Z3 86% to 100% HR max every minute is THREE TRIMP POINTS. Z2 76% to 85% HR max every minute is TWO TRIMP POINTS Z1 HR resting to 75% HR max every minute is ONE TRIMP POINT Given the variations of rider fitness and assuming you do not get a lab test the zones can be approximated as: Data comparing the hr zone spans of a group of riders (yellow columns) and: data comparing the hr zone spans of a group of riders (yellow columns) and BikeRadarĭata comparing the HR zone spans of a group of riders (yellow columns) and runners (red columns) and how many TRIMP points to allocate each HR zoneĪs you can see they are fairly close although not exactly pinpoint perfect.