I’ve started on the 18 weeks of sweet spot, and notice my CTL is projected to fall about 15% over the first month. This seems counter to the objective of building a bigger engine… Is this common?
Correct @mtballday - something is amuck but I don’t know what…What have you been doing prior to starting the 18 weeks of sweet spot plan?
In terms of riding, hours week, etc…?
I did the weights plan, but looking back at it, I had quite a few ‘extra’ TSS every week so maybe my CTL is currently reading higher than the plan assumes. Some were from AT skiing, but I did also count the TSS from the riding before and after weights workouts, which now that I look at it, those TSS aren’t really included in the plan.
Yea, huh, could be - hard for me to say without getting into your TrainingPeaks to have a look. You can post the last 90-180 days here so we can see.
Your PMC and the shape of your CTL should resemble a hockey stick from Adaptation > Hypertrophy and then ramping up especially from the sweet spot
Sure. Here it is. I did the weights plan from Oct 21 - Jan 5, so then CTL drops for the next month.
(If this is all getting too specific to me and dipping into the ‘set up a one-on-one’ territory, I get it).
It looks to me like the TSS’s from your 18 weeks SST plan are not 100% in there. Did you buy a basic plan by chance? Care to post weeks 3 & 4?
Weeks three and four are on there – that is showing through something like week 7.
I double-checked in training peaks – it is the 32 weeks resistance + sweet spot intermediate plan.
I also tried inserting the plan in for next year, and then compared the weekly TSS between this and next year, and they seem to be the same (except I made a few minor tweaks to this years plan).
FWIW, here is the whole thing out to the end of the 22 weeks plan:
Thanks for looking at it.
from your calendar tab - I want to double check your individual TSS’s per each workout.
Ultimately if you are #FtFP’ing and making it turn green you are going to get faster. If you rode more than the plan called for previously then that might be the culprit
