Training Metrics: Building Your Endurance Dashboard
Heart rate, power, pace, perceived effort: which one is most important?!
Now that we have an idea of how training stress works, let’s dig in to the metrics that we can use to measure it.
We’ll start with Time. Time is the most basic measurement and often we track how many hours per week of training we’re doing. This is a great thing to do because it correlates to the rest of our lives. If we’re devoting 12 hours a week to training, that’s 12 hours we aren’t doing other life things. We need to start here when developing our plan in order to create the ability to train!
As we discussed, time is only part of the equation of measuring training stress. The other is intensity. Intensity can be measured in a couple different ways.
Pace
Power
Heart Rate
Rate of Perceived Exertion
Depending on your access to more advanced tools, we can also measure:
Carb/Fat Utilization
Lactate Levels
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