How Plan Intensity Works
When you start a workout for your team, you will be prompted to select the pool size (SC, LC, or custom pools) and your role (coach or swimmer). Right after, you'll be asked to set your planned intensity. When doing so, you must first remember to reflect on the workout as a whole, not just the main set, and then decide how strenuous you intend this workout to be. The scale ranges from Recovery to Max Effort.
By comparing your swimmers' Intensity Scores to your Planned Intensity, you'll see who swims the program as prescribed. For those missing the mark, you'll be able to dive deeper into their Energy, Distance and Rest to understand what is causing this.
Did the swimmers go harder than they were asked to go?
Did they not sustain the energy zones you expected from them?
Did they tackle a beast of a workout?
Did they end up with more rest than planned?
What Impacts Intensity Score?
The more time the athlete spends swimming in higher Energy zones, the higher the Intensity score.
The more Distance a swimmer did in a workout (relative to how much they usually do), the higher the Intensity score.
Resting less in a workout makes the score climb. The higher the activity percentage, the higher the Intensity score.
Energy
The Energy score is calculated from the swimmer’s Time in Training Zone. The more time the athlete spends swimming in higher zones, the higher the Energy score will be. Aside from seeing Time In Training Zone for this workout, you can also see it over time, specifically over 7, 30 and 90 days. You'll also see the percent split between Aerobic work (Zones 1-3) and Anaerobic work (Zones 4-5).
Distance
The Distance score compares the distance completed in this workout to the swimmer’s typical distance. Workouts with higher distances than usual (for that swimmer) will get scored higher. Other insights you can explore here are the distance breakdown by stroke type, the total volume, the percent volume for this workout, and the volume breakdown for the last 7,30 and 90 days.
Work Vs Rest
The Work Vs Rest score is derived from the Active %, the percent of the workout spent swimming rather than resting. Keep in mind that Work Vs Rest considers the whole workout, not just sets, which means that the rest time between reps and between sets is counted (including the time the coach takes to explain sets or show drills etc.).
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