Roadie_scum said:It might be a rough way to look at it and one that needs to be done sensibly. Clearly there is not going to be a crossover between L2 and L6, whatever the TSS (you are already onto this from your previous post I see, but just to make my viewpoint clear). I think, however, and I could be wrong, it should be a reasonable proxy around similar intensities. Since TSS is the building block for CTL and CTL is positively predictive of fitness/form when the TSS building blocks are appropriately composed, there has to be at least some equivalency doesn't there?
I'd say that's the appropriate way of viewing the situation.
BTW, Dr. Dave Martin told me that the AIS has attempted to quantify the "dose" of training based on the notion of "radiating spheres of influence", e.g., while training at level 4 would be most effective at raising functional threshold power, it would also tend to raise VO2max, just as training at level 5 would be most effective at raising VO2max, but would also tend to increase functional threshold power. Things quickly became so complicated, however, that it was impossible to interpret what the tea leaves were trying to say. By comparison, TSS is a far simpler and cruder approach, but sometimes that's exactly what you need to get the job done...