Interesting, but doesn’t seem to work for me, but maybe that’s because I only recently started using Strava and a HR monitor etc., so I don’t have a lot of data there. With %ages, I have been solidly in the red for weeks now, which is not how I feel 
Somehow absolute numbers seem to be a better fit for me.
percent:
absolute:
yes - I am like a 40 and change in fitness atm, which is why I thought I’d be the target audience for this new feature
If you only started monitoring your fitness recently then you might be a lot fitter than the model indicates.
yeah, ok - ofc I’ll take that as an answer 
Fitness 85 here. Very interesting topic!
I’m switching to percent mode to test whether recovery metrics like HR and HRV will become better. In this mode my last 3-week build block is red. Will report back in a month after another mesocycle.
Interesting feature to have and compare against perceived form. When switching to percentage shouldn’t ramp rate also become percentage based?
wow fitness 146 !! I guess you are training 20+ hours per week ?
Something like that - it’s not like clockwork, but during the outdoors season, that’s about the average.
Brilliant. Provides a much greater level of accuracy in my case based on it fitting in with how I feel.
Thanks for this David, as someone coming back from a previously high fitness it much better correlates to my day to day perceived fatigue!
Maybe but it also has value as an absolute number re the increase in fitness.
I do not feel very tired, don’t feel rested either. I honestly don’t know how I should feel while in the “percentage” green zone.
This is a “percentage” screenshot since jan 2018 (only got a powermeter since april 1st 2020).
Not really, you just lack the consistency that this type of fitness/form modelling needs to reflect well on reality.
In this model, fitness decays over 6 weeks, fatigue decays over 1 week. You appear to take frequent training breaks, causing your fitness and fatigue levels to decline at different rates. When you jump back into your normal training habits, your fatigue level shoots back up quickly. These large swings in consistency are not ideal for this approach. It doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad way to train, just that this model of training form doesn’t really fit your routine.
Which shows a much better picture of your training routine/history. Your first screenshot seems to be of about the last month only, where you picked up training considerably.
Also, now having a real PM may skew things a bit, but as @asdfqwerty explained, this ‘redlining’ is to be expected in your case.
Correct, the consistency isn’t my strongsuit. I guess life happens often (hollidays out of the country, skitrips, sickness, bad weather after summer, …) .
I got my indoortrainer end of october last year, so the bad weather has less influence, a part that the indoor training isn’t as long as outdoors, and doesn’t raise my fitness much (if at all).
But a week of sickness and two skitrips dropped the line much more than I liked to see.
The first screenshot was of the last month or so (thx to the lockdown)
I guess I should restart much less intens, and gradually increase volume/intensity.
If I understand it right, redlining at the beginning weeks for a low level rider is to be expected ? Or still to be avoided ?
Tread carefully, listen to your body. This is ALWAYS rule number one. If you can handle what you’re doing now, keep doing it. It’s okay to feel exhausted after a though effort once in a while, but not on a daily or ‘four-out of-five-times-per-week’ basis…
Thx for the insight, I will keep that in mind.
Actually I am glad that @david added the percentage option. After a longer periode of consistency, I sometimes did feel exhausted, and lost the fun in riding.
Il try to stay in the green for a couple of weeks, and see what it does for fitness and morale.
