Originally Posted by
denvertrout
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CFB - what are you doing in the gym when lifting for 2 hours? My leg and upper body workout is under 30 minutes. I don't know what hrTSS is? Increasing numbers area good thing? I was a pure "sugar burner", when it came to riding. What my test also showed was that at low HR I burned fat really well, I just never worked that prior to the past month. I think that is a big source of weight loss. I tested at 12% body fat, that has certainly come down.<snip>
We've been doing body recomposition work to get our lean muscle mass and metabolism up, and thus lose some stubborn belly fat. Seems to be working. We've been doing 9 exercises, different ones for each day, 3 X 12, failing the last set on each of them. We're at it for about an hour twice a week. On some exercises we have to trade sets where there's just one piece of equipment or we want to spot each other. We move right along and can hardly walk when we're done. Even so, I don't count them as intensity.
hrTSS = heart rate training stress. It's a number like a TRIMP (TRaining IMPulse) which the software assigns to each workout, depending on how much time was spent at various HRs. Yes, higher is more work. Our double last summer got me a 645 hrTSS.