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Chronic Load and Acute Load

Mathematical and physiological reference for the two exponentially-weighted moving averages of daily training stress that approximate the fitness and fatigue components of the Banister impulse-response model: Chronic Load (slow, ~42-day time constant) and Acute Load (fast, ~7-day time constant).

Academy/training-load

Mathematical and physiological reference for the two exponentially-weighted moving averages of daily training stress that approximate the fitness and fatigue components of the Banister impulse-response model: Chronic Load (slow, ~42-day time constant) and Acute Load (fast, ~7-day time constant).

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