Coaching & planning · Coaching
Load, fitness, form, and Performance Index
CTL, ATL, TSB, BPI, and goal likelihood — conceptual guide for serious athletes.
Brick uses familiar endurance-training load concepts alongside a proprietary capability trend. You do not need the formulas — you need the story they tell about fitness, fatigue, and race readiness.
Fitness, fatigue, and form
- CTL (fitness) — chronic training load; longer-term work capacity.
- ATL (fatigue) — acute load; how heavy the recent days have been.
- TSB (form) — roughly fitness minus fatigue; freshness for key days and races.
These inform readiness, ease-week logic, and projections. They are not the only story — compliance, limiters, and thresholds matter too.
Brick Performance Index
BPI is a proprietary multi-sport capability trend: how bike, run, and swim output are moving relative to your own baselines. Think "am I getting more capable?" rather than "is my CTL high?" Exact calculation stays internal.
Goal likelihood and race readiness
With a goal time, Brick projects bands such as on track, stretch, and at risk, with plain-language drivers (compliance, thresholds, disruption, and more).
Without a goal time, you still get completion-oriented race readiness — ready, building, or not ready — so A-race weeks are not a surprise.
How to use these
- Watch trends over weeks, not day-to-day noise.
- Pair a "stretch" goal band with honest calibration and key-session compliance.
- Let proposals handle acute fatigue instead of inventing your own deload mid-week. Proposals.
