NEW RELEASE: Better understand your Fitness & Training capacity!
We’ve released Fitness States and a deeper look into Training Capacity to give you clearer, day-to-day insight into how your body is responding to training and recovery. Together, they help you understand where your fitness is trending and guide smarter decisions about when to push, maintain, or recover—right from the widgets on your home screen.
Fitness States
What is it?: A fitness state represents your body’s current condition in response to training and recovery. It takes trends over many days to understand where you are at and where you are heading.
What are the fitness states?: Today we have Over-training, Peaking, Building, Maintaining, Recovering and De-training. A deep explanation of each of these is located in the wahoo app.
How to use it: Use fitness states as a guide and feedback to your training. If you are doing too much, you may hit overtraining, if you are tapering for an event you may be recovering.
Where to find it: Click on the Fitness Score widget on your home page to get all the information you need.
Training Capacity
What is it?: A new training capacity dedicated page to help you understand how your training capacity is changing based on what you are doing today. This is represented as a dial, underneath you will see cognitive impact, training impact and estimated recovery that all go into your training capacity score for the day.
How to use it?: Use this dial as a feedback mechanism to help guide your decision making on what to do today. If your mental state is low, do a mental recovery session. If you finish a hard workout that has a big training impact, make sure you recover to prepare for your next session. The app will prompt with in-app messaging to help you understand and interpret these changes.
Where to find it: Click on the Training Capacity widget on your home page.
This is awesome, much better visualization of this data. The more I dig into and understand these metrics the more I like them. At first these metrics seemed like Wahoos spin on Training Peaks CTL, ATL, and TSB (and to some extent they are) but the analysis of the data has a cycling spin (pun intended) that takes into account the special dynamics of cycling compared to other sports. I now find myself watching the trends on the Wahoo app much more than my training peaks numbers and these new visualizations make it much easier to see what impact the training is making day to day. Great job Wahoo team!
This is sure to take a lot of guesswork out of the new metrics, love this! I am a bit sad though, that the colors for building, peaking and maintaining are absolutely impossible to distinguish for red-green colorblind people like me. That is 8% of the male population (men are much more likely to be affected than women), so not an insignificant number. It’s fairly easy to find friendlier color palettes online, but I would be more than happy to make some suggestions if Wahoo is willing to make a change there @Helga!
Is the 88.8 fitness with almost linearly rising trajectory used for illustration to challenge our mental strength and resilience? Or just to tell us we’re in poor shape?
I’m a multidisciplinary athlete, and while of course my cycling sessions are recorded with Wahoo, other things I do like running (where I use Apple Watch) are not. I know I can import sessions into Wahoo by getting FIT files, but would be nice if Wahoo could read from Apple Health my other activities. It’s not that I need to see analysis of those sessions per se (I use an app called HealthFit for that) but curious if the impact of my other activities would dramatically change my Wahoo Fitness & Training Capacity scores (but not so curious I want to manually import several files every day). Wahoo can write to Apple Health but currently does not read from it.
Hi @Technique I run as well as cycle, what you could do is just sign up to the free version of Strava and just connect your Apple Watch to Strava then connect Wahoo to Strava and any run you upload will pop into the Wahoo Fitness App
I have Wahoo set to send rides to Strava. Separately, I use HealthFit to send run activities from Apple Health to Strava, so Strava gets both runs and rides. I don’t see an option on the Wahoo app in iOS to read from Strava though, but I’ll keep poking around.
Edit: Ah, I think I figured it out. Certain options were grayed out. I de-authorized then re-authorizes and now I can select “Import Summaries” which should do the trick. Thanks.
Still would be nice to have an option to read from Apple Health, given Strava occasionally wants to mess with how people move data around.
Yes you can activate sharing from Wahoo TO Apple Health Kit, but not from Health Kit to Wahoo, tho it works if you use Strava as a go-between. At least that works without a paid Strava subscription. But I agree, it would be better if the link to Wahoo was direct.
