Recovery Status
Get insights into your recovery
Recovery Status gives you an estimation of your recovery time and helps you to get a picture of your recovery status before getting out there again.
Know the time needed to recover
If you train hard and often, and don’t take enough time for rest and recovery, it may lead to fatigue and decrease your performance. Recovery Status gives you an estimate of the time it takes for you to recover.
It helps you find the balance between training and recovery, which is important for improving your performance and achieving your training goals.
Plan your training effectively
In the long term, Recovery Status helps you in keeping your total training amount in control. In the short term, it helps you plan your future trainings.
Continuous monitoring of recovery status also helps you plan your training so that you avoid over- and undertraining.
The science
The training guidance based on the Recovery Status has been validated in a series of randomised controlled trials among competitive cyclists, triathletes and runners.
How Recovery Status works
Recovery Status is based on the cumulative load of all your activities including your training sessions and data on the small activities you do every day.
The Recovery Status feature works best in endurance type of training. In each training session, the neuromuscular load of exercise is estimated taking the sport of the session into account.
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