What apps or software do you use to monitor your training and progress?

[Bike Dewing]

Garmin linked to strava linked to intervals.icu . gives me all the information I need as an amateur..

[Ispeed_V]

Tape Measure and Scale - Old School.

[DieselnDust]

Trainingpeaks and intervals.icu.

i use the coaching account where i can build workouts and plans as well as monitor progress.

intervals.icu spits out an estimated ftp which is nice to have but nothing that can’t be calculated by someone that knows where to look

[cadenceblur]

10 minutes ago, DieselnDust said:

Trainingpeaks and intervals.icu.

i use the coaching account where i can build workouts and plans as well as monitor progress.

intervals.icu spits out an estimated ftp which is nice to have but nothing that can’t be calculated by someone that knows where to look

Keen to understand how you monitor progress 

[DieselnDust]

4 hours ago, cadenceblur said:

Keen to understand how you monitor progress 

Several ways.

is a rider getting faster over a given course?

is their average power improving ( if using a pm)?

is vo2max improving 

is recovery time reducing?

How is capacity to repeat load increasing. 
 

what you monitor depends a lot on the approach to achieving the desired training objective

 

Edited 3 hours ago by DieselnDust

[Mamil]

I use the intervals.icu ftp estimate to track progress - I find that a flat out 40 minute zwift race is far preferable to a boring 20 minute ftp test.

I like the garmin endurance score and heat acclimation metrics and the vo2max estimate. Also by feel on certain staple sessions in my library - there's one called war of attrition which is essentially short vo2max intervals with longer recovery intervals at threshold followed by a 30 second high anaerobic effort at the end which gives a nice subjective indicator of where I am.

 

[Frosty]

1 hour ago, Mamil said:

I like the garmin endurance score and heat acclimation metrics

Speaking of acclimation metrics, Garmin says (often) that I’m acclimated to 1500m… yet I spend most of my time (live, work and train) +/- 1600m. Not even the virtual training (Indievelo/TrainingPeaks Virtual) at an average of 40-something would affect it, because my indieVelo rides don’t sync to GC. So I take those metrics with a pinch of NaCl

[Frosty]

2 hours ago, DieselnDust said:

Several ways.

is a rider getting faster over a given course?

is their average power improving ( if using a pm)?

is vo2max improving 

is recovery time reducing?

How is capacity to repeat load increasing. 
 

what you like depends a lot on the approach to achieving the desired training objective

 

Add the following:

Does the same type of effort feel easier?

Can you hold an easy conversation but find yourself riding quicker.

Are hills easier to get up?

[The Ouzo]

Just now, Frosty said:

Add the following:

Does the same type of effort feel easier?

Can you hold an easy conversation but find yourself riding quicker.

Are hills faster to get up?

hills dont get easier, you just get up them faster.

[Mamil]

1 hour ago, Frosty said:

Speaking of acclimation metrics, Garmin says (often) that I’m acclimated to 1500m… yet I spend most of my time (live, work and train) +/- 1600m. Not even the virtual training (Indievelo/TrainingPeaks Virtual) at an average of 40-something would affect it, because my indieVelo rides don’t sync to GC. So I take those metrics with a pinch of NaCl

Interesting. Most of mine is at sea level through to a max of about 900m and it says I'm acclimated to 1000m. 

[Shebeen]

not sure if this has been celebrated much but pretty sure interals.icu was beta tested here by @davidtinker 

 

edit: yes here it is

 

[The Ouzo]

4 minutes ago, Mamil said:

Interesting. Most of mine is at sea level through to a max of about 900m and it says I'm acclimated to 1000m. 

I'm sure they just round off to the nearest 500m

[betaboy]

A good Cateye computer with cadence and 2 full waters bottle for weight training and Chris Carmichael training book ,serviced me well till I learnt EPO goes a lot further… ✔️😂

[ChrisF]

3 hours ago, DieselnDust said:

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is recovery time reducing?

......

 

 

Nothing like a stage race to open a newbies eyes to this reality ....

[cadenceblur]

3 hours ago, DieselnDust said:

Several ways.

is a rider getting faster over a given course?

is their average power improving ( if using a pm)?

is vo2max improving 

is recovery time reducing?

How is capacity to repeat load increasing. 
 

what you like depends a lot on the approach to achieving the desired training objective

 

Been looking at decoupling , but need to get into the detail. 

[Underachiever]

6 hours ago, Bike Dewing said:

Garmin linked to strava linked to intervals.icu . gives me all the information I need as an amateur..

Snap!!