ARVENTO Ride Intelligence · Post-Ride Reference
Copy your Z1–Z5 heart-rate-zone data from your cycling app. ARVENTO turns it into a simple daily and weekly training-load reference.
Cycling Training Load Estimate
Open your completed ride and find the Heart Rate / Heart Rate Zones section. Copy the time or percentage shown for Z1 through Z5 into ARVENTO.
Activity → Analysis / Heart Rate → Heart Rate Zones
Strava layouts can vary by device and app version. Look for the section showing Z1–Z5 heart-rate distribution.
Open your completed activity and find Heart Rate or Time in Zones. Copy the time or percentage shown for Z1 through Z5 into ARVENTO.
Activity → Charts / Heart Rate → Time in Zones
Garmin layouts can vary by device and app version.
Choose an input mode, enter Z1–Z5, then estimate your load.
Understanding the method
Edwards TRIMP is a heart-rate-based method for estimating internal training load. It calculates training load by multiplying the time spent in five heart-rate zones by progressively higher weighting factors, then adding those values together. The result is expressed in arbitrary units (AU), not TSS.
Z1 × 1 · Z2 × 2 · Z3 × 3 · Z4 × 4 · Z5 × 5
The original Edwards method uses five heart-rate zones based on percentages of maximum heart rate. Cycling apps such as Strava and Garmin may use custom, HR-reserve, lactate-threshold, or other zone definitions. Therefore, ARVENTO treats the result as a practical heart-rate training-load reference when users copy Z1–Z5 from their cycling app.
The single-ride bands provide a quick usability reference. The rider's rolling four completed-week history provides the more meaningful personal context once all four weeks contain ARVENTO records; the current incomplete week remains excluded from that baseline.
In short: Edwards TRIMP converts time spent in heart-rate zones Z1–Z5 into a weighted internal training-load score expressed in AU. Higher heart-rate zones contribute more to the score. It is a heart-rate-based training-load metric and is not equivalent to power-based TSS.
FAQ
After a ride, open the activity in Strava, Garmin Connect, or another cycling app and look for Heart Rate, Heart Rate Zones, or Time in Zones. Copy the Z1–Z5 time or percentage values into ARVENTO.
No. If your cycling app already shows your ride divided into Z1–Z5, you can use those zone values directly. Personal Max Heart Rate is optional in this version.
Either works. Time in Zones is the simplest option. If you enter percentages, ARVENTO also needs the total ride duration so it can estimate how many minutes were spent in each zone.
No. Edwards TRIMP is based on heart-rate-zone duration and is expressed in arbitrary units (AU). Power-based TSS uses cycling power data such as FTP and Normalized Power. The two scores use different methods and should not be compared as the same scale.
The 4-week baseline is the average weekly training load from your previous four completed weeks recorded in this browser. It gives ARVENTO a personal reference instead of using one fixed weekly limit for everyone.
No. It is a planning reference based on your recent recorded training, not a medical or injury-risk threshold. Fatigue, sleep, heat, hydration, illness, training history and other factors can affect how much training is appropriate.
Training-load history for this version is stored locally in your browser on the current device. It is not automatically synced to Strava, Garmin, ARVENTO cloud storage, or an AI assistant.