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TRYour big weekend ride could be quietly wrecking your next 3 weeks of training. 🚴
We pulled the numbers on 343,558 workouts from 24,573 cyclists. Here’s what we found:
→ Cross 50% of your weekly TSS in a single ride: you’re 54% more likely to skip your next hard workout
→ Past 100%? Nearly 3× more likely
→ Each extra skip per month: about −5 watts of FTP per year, even at the same training volume
The fix is simple: keep any single ride under 50% of your six-week weekly TSS average. That’s the 50% Rule.
Don’t want to run that math on every ride? TrainerRoad AI does it for you. It only crosses the 50% line on 0.04% of recommendations (about once a decade of training). Pick your own workouts and you’re 184× more likely to cross.
Comment ‘rule’ and we’ll send you the full breakdown. Or get started at TrainerRoad.com.
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