A four-week average of training load is sufficient to establish a baseline for assessing current training capacity.

“four weeks it's just a you know that it's kind of a the four if if you've done something for four weeks in a row you and you're feeling okay then you can you kind of assume that yeah your body's able to handle that load”

“you know there was no deep thinking involved that it was basically a week versus a month um and and you know you can you can argue it that yeah you need at least you know you need a decent amount of time because otherwise you have one week where you miss a couple days due to injury and then all of a sudden your four-week average is totally skewed or if it's a three- we you know or something and five weeks at six weeks you know at a certain point you're moving so far back that it your body don't no longer cares what you were capable of doing 8 weeks ago or at least not as much so four weeks it's just a you know that it's kind of a the four if if you've done something for four weeks in a row you and you're feeling okay then you can you kind of assume that yeah your body's able”