Table 1.

Correlations between cumulative and smoothed training loads of various periods on a given day^a.

	Cumulative 3 day	Cumulative 7 day	Cumulative 14 day	Cumulative 21 day	Cumulative 28 day
PRE-SEASONb
Smoothed 3 day	0.91	0.81	0.63	0.39	0.18
Smoothed 5 day	0.83	0.91	0.81	0.58	0.33
Smoothed 7 day	0.73	0.90	0.89	0.71	0.46
Smoothed 10 day	0.60	0.81	0.91	0.82	0.61
Smoothed 14 day	0.46	0.67	0.86	0.86	0.72
Smoothed 21 day	0.32	0.48	0.68	0.77	0.75
Smoothed 28 day	0.24	0.36	0.52	0.62	0.65
IN-SEASONc
Smoothed 3 day	0.85	0.70	0.59	0.48	0.42
Smoothed 5 day	0.81	0.82	0.77	0.66	0.59
Smoothed 7 day	0.75	0.84	0.86	0.78	0.72
Smoothed 10 day	0.66	0.81	0.90	0.87	0.83
Smoothed 14 day	0.57	0.75	0.90	0.92	0.90
Smoothed 21 day	0.46	0.66	0.84	0.90	0.93
Smoothed 28 day	0.40	0.58	0.77	0.86	0.91

^aValues are Pearson correlation coefficients. The highest value of each row is in bold.

^bThe number of observations for training load measures ranged from 3,271 (cumulative 28 day) to 4,503 (smoothed loads).

^cThe number of observations was 8800 for each training load measure. Unlike the pre-season phase, all measures could be calculated from the first day of the in-season.