What do the Performance Widget arrows mean?

On the "front page" of the performance widget there are two arrows. One for Fitness, one for Load: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/runningdynamics/#training-status

What do they mean? With me, it says Productive, with a Fitness arrow pointing to the right, and a load arrow pointing upward. Does that mean my fitness is staying level and my load should be increased? Or does it mean that my fitness level is staying put and my load HAS increased? Or does it mean that my load capacity is increasing? Or does it mean that my load is too high and I should decrease it?

I can't find any documentation for those two arrows anywhere. The user manual doesn't mention them wit a single word: http://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/fenix5x/EN-US/GUID-F5BF67CE-C94E-4842-AE96-A7A05C85B732.html

Firstbeat also has the arrows around their webpage, but they don't tell what they mean either: https://www.firstbeat.com/en/consumer-feature/training-status/

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

Great question, I have been looking at this too. Mine say's Peaking with Fitness arrow up and Load arrow down.

I think it means that I have Peaked in Performance in the last sessions and my fitness is going up, but my training Load has gone down, probably because I took 3 days off. I think if the Training Load is to the right , your load is maintaining.

0 Mentox over 8 years ago

Arrow up means you are increasing compared to the last 7 days. Pointing to the rights means no change.

So it looks at the last 7 days and shows you how you perform.

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAqJJ9vx2CI

0 mcalista over 8 years ago

On the "front page" of the performance widget there are two arrows. One for Fitness, one for Load: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/runningdynamics/#training-status

What do they mean? With me, it says Productive, with a Fitness arrow pointing to the right, and a load arrow pointing upward. Does that mean my fitness is staying level and my load should be increased? Or does it mean that my fitness level is staying put and my load HAS increased? Or does it mean that my load capacity is increasing? Or does it mean that my load is too high and I should decrease it?

I can't find any documentation for those two arrows anywhere. The user manual doesn't mention them wit a single word: http://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/fenix5x/EN-US/GUID-F5BF67CE-C94E-4842-AE96-A7A05C85B732.html

Firstbeat also has the arrows around their webpage, but they don't tell what they mean either: https://www.firstbeat.com/en/consumer-feature/training-status/

It means your load has increased over recent days, but your fitness has stayed about the same. Training = Exercises + Recovery so if you then follow this up with some lighter days, you may well see fitness increasing with load decreasing as your body recovers and gets stronger.

0 Flow_Ryan over 8 years ago

DC Rainmaker

Hello

dc rainmaker linked an excel file in his Garmin Fenix 5 review
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/03/garmin-fenix5-5s-5x-review.html#
with detailed descriptions of the different status in training load:

chapter Training load:
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/03/garmin-fenix5-5s-5x-review.html#training-load-stress

the excel file:
https://media.dcrainmaker.com/images/2017/03/Training-Status_Short_description.xlsx

hope this helps.

kr Florian

0 HavardG over 8 years ago

Ok, so it sounds like the arrows indicate the sign of the first derivative of the respective graphs at a point in very recent history (like between the last two or three activities, or over the last 24 hours or something).

That makes sense. Thanks!