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Reading the Training Load Chart

Mathematical and visual reference for the Training Load Chart, the three-line plot of Chronic Load (long-term fitness baseline), Acute Load (recent fatigue), and Load Balance (the difference, indicating freshness). Documents the underlying EWMA construction with the Coggan/Allen continuous-exponential convention, the standard chart-pattern interpretations (productive ramp, overreaching, supercompensation, detraining), the use of the chart for race-date selection and training-block placement, and the boundary conditions where chart-only reasoning breaks down.

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Mathematical and visual reference for the Training Load Chart, the three-line plot of Chronic Load (long-term fitness baseline), Acute Load (recent fatigue), and Load Balance (the difference, indicating freshness). Documents the underlying EWMA construction with the Coggan/Allen continuous-exponential convention, the standard chart-pattern interpretations (productive ramp, overreaching, supercompensation, detraining), the use of the chart for race-date selection and training-block placement, and the boundary conditions where chart-only reasoning breaks down.

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