Recovery week : Deload week
LoadWeek with reduced volume and intensity (50-70% of normal) inserted every 3-4 weeks to absorb training load and consolidate adaptations.
A recovery week is a planned deload week within the training cycle. It typically follows 3 progressive loading weeks. Volume drops 40-60%, high-intensity sessions are removed or reduced, and key sessions are replaced by easy endurance. It's not a lazy week : adaptations (supercompensation), mitochondrial growth, and tendon consolidation happen during recovery, not during loading.
In TriPaced:
In TriPaced, recovery weeks are automatically inserted into your plan every 3-4 weeks. They appear in light blue in the Plan view with an explicitly reduced weekly volume target. Don't skip them : they are the reason the following load weeks can progress.