# Newbie - Making Sense of Fitness

**URL:** <https://forum.intervals.icu/t/newbie-making-sense-of-fitness/108681>\
**Category:** Training\
**Created:** [7 July 2025 10:20 UTC](https://forum.intervals.icu/t/newbie-making-sense-of-fitness/108681 "2025-07-07T10:20:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jimmyridesfast](https://forum.intervals.icu/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@Jimmyridesfast](https://forum.intervals.icu/u/Jimmyridesfast)\
**Post date:** [7 July 2025 10:20 UTC](https://forum.intervals.icu/t/newbie-making-sense-of-fitness/108681/1 "2025-07-07T10:20:39Z")

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Hi Everyone,  
I started cycling last year looking to improve my fitness and some how found this site. I have been uploading data from Strava, but, being fairly new to this, I don’t understand what the chart is showing me other than it looks good for about 3 months then doesn’t, but I don’t even know what that means.

Are there any tutorials that can tell me how to interpret the fitness graphs?

 ![image](https://forum.intervals.icu/uploads/default/original/3X/c/1/c176d1c9868dd3efd955914287094d2c7c301c02.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![MedTechCD](https://forum.intervals.icu/user_avatar/forum.intervals.icu/medtechcd/32/40383_2.png) [@MedTechCD](https://forum.intervals.icu/u/MedTechCD)\
**Post date:** [7 July 2025 10:27 UTC](https://forum.intervals.icu/t/newbie-making-sense-of-fitness/108681/2 "2025-07-07T10:27:58Z")

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Start reading here

> [@FITNESS PAGE - a guide to getting started](https://forum.intervals.icu/t/fitness-page-a-guide-to-getting-started/17702/2):
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> The Fitness page. [Fitness page icon] The Fitness page is without a doubt one of the most important pages because it gives you an immediate overview of the result from everything you’ve done in the past and, everything you’ve planned for the future. The Fitness and Form charts are the heart of the page and if you come from another software suite, you may know them as the PMC (Performance Management Chart). The terms Fitness/Fatigue/Form are used iso of the trademarked CTL/ATL/TSB ™. The idea a…

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**Author:** ![Jimmyridesfast](https://forum.intervals.icu/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@Jimmyridesfast](https://forum.intervals.icu/u/Jimmyridesfast)\
**Post date:** [7 July 2025 11:35 UTC](https://forum.intervals.icu/t/newbie-making-sense-of-fitness/108681/3 "2025-07-07T11:35:11Z")

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Thanks for the link, I’ll take a read