Glossary
Glossary
- Active energy
- Calories burned through movement, as reported by your device. Resting metabolism is not included.
- Acute:chronic load ratio
- The last week’s training load divided by the last month’s. Shown on the Training Load page for context only.
- Beta
- A connection or feature that is open but has had less real-world use. Some beta providers are also in early access.
- Carb load
- The two days before a session of three hours or more, or a race, when the fuel plan raises carbohydrate.
- Check-in
- The five-question morning rating (tiredness, sleep, soreness, mood, motivation). Feeds readiness and suggestions. Free on every plan.
- Day class
- What the fuel plan calls a day: rest, easy, moderate, hard, key, pre-fuel, carb load, or recovery. Shown as the chip on Today’s Nutrition.
- Early access
- A provider whose card reads Request access. The support team adds people by hand while spaces last.
- Fatigue
- Training load averaged over roughly the last week. Rises and falls quickly.
- Fitness
- Training load averaged over roughly the last six weeks. Rises and falls slowly.
- Form
- Fitness minus fatigue. Positive means fresh; negative means carrying fatigue. Decides the readiness level.
- Fuel plan
- The daily calorie and carbohydrate targets for the next week, higher on training days and lower on rest days.
- HRV (heart rate variability)
- The variation between heartbeats, measured by your device, usually during sleep. Higher than your own usual is a sign of recovery.
- Import History
- The Manage panel option that fetches older data from a provider: 30, 60, 90, or 180 days, or all history.
- Load points (AU)
- The unit of training load, shown as AU in the app. A session earns points from its duration and intensity; the calendar’s weekly column and a program’s weeks total them.
- Movement outside workouts
- Your activity level when not training, from mostly sitting to a physical job. The biggest input to the calorie target.
- Performance score
- The daily score on the 7-day trends chart, 0 to 100.
- Planned meal
- A meal a scheduled meal plan put on a day. Listed under Planned Meals in the tracker with a Log button.
- Plus
- The paid plan. The account menu reads Plus member for anyone who holds it, whether by subscription or by a grant.
- Pre-fuel
- The day before a session of 90 minutes or more. The fuel plan raises carbohydrate and never takes a weight-goal deficit on it.
- Race
- A session marked This is a race. Never moved, eased, or dropped by a suggestion.
- Readiness
- A daily level (Fresh, Ready, Neutral, Fatigued, Overtrained) with a recommended intensity, decided from form and adjusted by training volume and nutrition.
- Rest day
- The meaning depends on where it appears. On the fuel plan, the day class for a day with no planned session, so the calorie target uses the base rule. On the calendar, the Rest Day chip a program places on its off days, which Quick Select can also add. In a program’s structure, the recovery weeks between build weeks.
- Session role
- What a program calls a session: quality, easy, long, recovery, test, or race. Decides what happens when it is missed.
- Streak
- Consecutive days with at least one logged meal or one completed workout.
- Suggestion
- A dashboard card that offers to ease, swap, move, shorten, or drop a planned session. Part of Plus.
- Sync Now
- The Manage panel button that fetches everything since the last successful sync.
- Threshold heart rate
- The heart rate you can hold for about an hour. Set on your profile; used for intensity.
- Token Expired
- A connection whose provider approval ran out. Disconnect and connect again, or use Reconnect in the Manage panel, to resume.
- Training load
- The combined measure of how much and how hard you have trained, summarised as fatigue, fitness, and form.
- Volume warning
- Shown on the readiness page when this week’s training load is more than 10 percent above last week’s.
- Workout push
- Sending scheduled sessions to a Garmin or Suunto watch. Shown in the provider’s Manage panel.
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