What it is: A Mental Capacity Assessment that tracks your cognitive and emotional readiness to perform, giving you deeper insight into your overall Training Capacity. Think of it as understanding not just your physical state, but your mental readiness too.
How to use it: Take a quick 90-second assessment each day, ideally at the same time (like during your morning routine). You’ll complete a Go/NoGo task that measures reaction time and response inhibition, followed by a brief emotional questionnaire.
After completing your first 3 assessments for calibration, you’ll receive your personalized score (ranging from -100 to +100) on your 4th assessment. After 30 assessments, your score will be fully calibrated to your unique baseline. Your Mental Capacity also affects your Training Capacity, giving you an even more accurate measure of your readiness to train.
Why it matters: Mental fatigue is real. Stress, sleep, focus, readiness - they all impact how you perform. Now you can track it, understand it, and train smarter because of it. Whether you’re fresh and firing or need a recovery day, you’ll know where you stand.
Dame @Helga, I can’t find this in the wahoo app, how does one navigate to it. If it turns out to be easy and I’m just failing too see what’s right in front of me then maybe I don’t need to take the test…..
I didn’t realize this at first. The two apps one forum thing is quite confusing..
I downloaded the Wahoo app for the first time to give this a try. I’m not sure what the point of it is for a Systm user, since I haven’t used it yet. At first glance it looks like a a Strava etc fitness tracking app.
Anyway I’m thinking to give it a go for strength training and see how that works.
To the state the obvious, I wish the suite of mental recovery bits I see on the Wahoo app were on the systm app.
I’ve done the test a couple of times now, and I look forward to seeing my assessment when I’ve completed a couple more.
This is interesting but I’m not sure how I’ll use this.
Will I change what I plan to do based on the results of the test? Should I be changing something based the score (e.g. avoid burn-out)? Will this give me an “excuse” or a “reason” for a poor performance? Will the longer term trend provide better insight? It provides a convenient quantification, but does it tell me anything I didn’t already know intuitively? Am I willing to do the short test every day?
I am very surprised that Strava continues to allow* Wahoo to pull all logged workouts across given that the latter appears to be developing a pretty similar but vastly superior product. Does anybody really use the social media aspects of Strava beyond chucking out “kudos”?
As far as meaningful updates to the Systm app go, the general consensus seems to be that all 3 Wahoo apps are slowly being combined into the one. Elemnt is effectively already dead as the new generation of computers all connect with the Wahoo app and lots of the Systm workouts can already be played in it as well (although not with video, I don’t think).
*I’m not naïve, I know Wahoo have probably paid handsomely for it!
