Whatever your favorite sport is, training regularly puts strain on your body. This strain is a good thing — it’s how you get fitter, healthier and, if that’s what you’re aiming for, faster. However, you have to get the amount of strain you put on your body right — too little and you won’t get fitter, too much and you risk exhausting yourself and getting ill or injured.
Chronic training load is a metric that can help you judge your efforts each day, and over long periods of training. It has been popularized by the team behind the training platform TrainingPeaks, and is widely used across the best sports watches and workout apps, albeit sometimes under a different name like fitness.
