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Is CTL a Chronic Training Load?
The effort is a novel one. We're trying to come up with a formula that will tell us how hard the session was. But in reality, as you have experienced and now as every athlete has experienced who's now gone through that, is the reality is much different. Is that the stress or how difficult the actual workout is cannot be merely represented by this mathematical calculation? You can use it as a gauge of, yeah, okay, this might be a little bit harder than the other one. To say that it's exactly 10% harder, 10% easier would be an error because it's disregarding all of those other things that are affecting the athlete on the social side of things.