I think TSS is like diet. The only way you can properly understand and use it, is pay attention to it over years of training. You can then figure out what works and what doesn’t on a personal level.

I don't worry about TSS anymore that much.... been having a similar FTP this year compared to my best year but with way less TSS points (arround 20~) but more short and hart workouts instead of lots of +100km rides... thus a good video of you, thumbs up

So I just signed up, after watching the show for a while, great show, excellent app so far, of course life immediately threw a curve ball at me, but I'm getting started. I'm intrigued by this excerpt in combination with something from a video game (pro cycling manager) which breaks down the cycling efforts in the game into endurance, vo2max and sprint power. In that context with your data set would it be interesting to measure a few zones (3 like the game?) and use some form of tss and 'zone' to measure each part of the power curve and reflect it in a graph over time. In a way it's a bit of leading the witness since I assume the training plan is intended to mix things up, those graphs should reflect your intentions pretty well. It would be interesting to see how skipping workouts, adding in ad hoc workouts, mapping races vs training etc would affect those charts. Of course you may already have all this. :D One more thing, I'm always curious why most of the training apps don't integrate heart rate data more deeply. Specifically heart rate variability, recovery rate, etc. When combined with variable strain it might provide insight into when a specific class of work has become too much. Cheers and thanks for the great product, and great show.

Is TSS calculated the same on TR as Garmin connect?