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Podcast: EVOQ.BIKE Cycling Podcast
Episode: 1 Massive Reason Why Obsessing Over Your CTL Can Ruin Your Cycling Season
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Once Strava started to incorporate their version of a Performance Manager Chart, calling it Fitness and Freshness, athletes started to dig into their data more and look at graphs of how fit they were. While I like that Strava made the idea of Chronic Training Load (CTL), Acute Training Load (ATL), and Training Stress Balance (TSB) very easy to understand, there is one massive reason why you shouldn’t obsess over this curve and base your overall fitness solely on this one number. Â
CTL is what Strava calls Fitness.Â
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