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Training load for hybrid athletes — combining cardio and strength, reading the ramp rate, and the methods behind LOAD.
How to Calculate TRIMP by Hand
The Banister and Edwards TRIMP formulas, worked through with real numbers, plus what to do about the sessions your heart rate cannot score.
How to track your combined running and lifting load in a spreadsheet
Build a five-column spreadsheet that scores running and lifting on one scale, adds the rolling 7 and 28 day columns, and gives you an acute:chronic ratio. Formulas included.
How to Calculate Your ACWR by Hand (Including Your Lifting)
The acute:chronic workload ratio is one division. Here is the arithmetic, how to get a number for a week that includes gym sessions, and what the result does and does not tell you.
Why Your Watch Thinks Leg Day Was Recovery
Your watch barely registers a heavy lifting session. Two separate things go wrong, and only one of them is fixed by a chest strap. What heart rate can and cannot see.
TRIMP vs Power vs RPE: Three Ways to Score Cardio Load (and When Each Wins)
Power is the most accurate way to measure a session and the least useful across a mixed week. A straight comparison of the three main training load methods.
Hyrox Training Load: How Running Volume and Station Work Stack Up
Hyrox prep means progressing running and strength at the same time, which ramps your total load twice as fast as either chart shows. How to see it and how to phase it.
ACWR for Hybrid Athletes: What the Acute:Chronic Workload Ratio Actually Tells You
The acute:chronic workload ratio is a useful ramp-rate signal and a bad crystal ball. What it measures, where the maths gets criticised, and how to read it.
How to Combine Strava and Hevy Into One Training Load Number
Strava tracks your cardio, Hevy tracks your lifting, and neither adds up to a single picture of your week. Here's why they don't combine, and a method that works.