Hello,
I would like to see an app feature that visualizes cumulative training load over time. Typically this is something like a rolling past 7 days’ strain vs. a range of the previous rolling 3 week and 4 week strains.
- The 7 day average shows recent or “acute load” and therefore stress/fatigue that the body is actively recovering from today or sometimes over multiple days of recovery.
- The 3 to 4 week range shows a cumulative long term or “chronic load”. Like a baseline of fitness tolerance from the adaptations the body has made from strain it’s sustained and recovered from in the past.
This would be helpful to prevent over or undertraining by showing users a visual target to keep your acute 7 day load within an optimal range that doesn’t stray too high or low based on your long term cumulative or chronic load.
Relying purely on a recovery score to inform the current day’s target strain is not consistent or accurate enough due to other factors that may influence recovery and because it is primarily representative of cardiovascular recovery. It doesn’t allow you to take into account how bones and ligaments take longer to recover than muscle. For example, your heart may recover quickly from a high strain day and show green every morning, but if you continue to hit high strain days repeatedly, joints and ligaments accumulate fatigue that can lead to injury.
Additional considerations or enhancements to this feature:
- Weighting the strain used in calculations based on how far in the past it occurred, where recent strain is weighted higher.
- Providing a quick word or rating based on the ratio of these averages, to show at a glance whether you are progressing or maintaining or declining in fitness
- Maybe including secondary insights like “durability” or “resilience” that are derived from a correlation of strain and recovery. If you typically have a 50% recovery on average after 14+ strain days, and that trends higher over time to where recovery is 65% after 14+ strain days, your ability to tolerate strain is improving, indicating higher durability/resilience.
Side note:
- I have tried asking the AI coach to provide this information for me, but it states that it only has access to default strain values available in the app.
- You should alow the AI coach to extract raw data, run calculations to create it’s own unique values, and then plot those as prompted. In the absence of app feature releases, allowing AI to supplement what people want to see for themselves, would at least be a temporary help until a standard view is created natively.
- You should also track AI visualization requests from users to inform new feature requests because many may not submit via the community.
Please feel free to reach out for any clarification or to discuss futher.
Thank you for your consideration.