Check-ins and measures
Check-in
Section titled “Check-in”A check-in is what an athlete files each morning, in about twenty seconds.
The check-in has three scales: sleep, energy and soreness. The athlete picks a word on each, and the words run from worst to best.
| Scale | The words, worst to best |
|---|---|
| Sleep | Terrible · Poor · OK · Good · Great |
| Energy | Drained · Low · OK · Good · Energized |
| Soreness | Very sore · Sore · Moderate · Slight · None |
An athlete who picks Very sore or Sore also marks which body areas hurt, and which side.
An athlete can add a short note, and can update a check-in later the same day.
Session report
Section titled “Session report”A session report is what an athlete files after a session, rather than before one.
A session is one occasion they turn up to: a published workout on their day, or a meet they are entered for. Prescribed rest and an empty day ask for nothing.
The report carries what happened — completed, cut short or missed — and one more thing depending on which. A completed session carries an RPE from 1 to 10, where 10 is all out. A session that was not completed carries a reason instead.
RPE runs the opposite way to the check-in scales on purpose. A high check-in score is good; a high RPE means the session was hard. That is how coaches read effort, and remapping it would make the number wrong for its audience.
An athlete has three days to file, and can change a report until the end of the day they filed it.
Nothing is filled in for them
Section titled “Nothing is filled in for them”A day with no check-in has no check-in, and a session with no report has no report. StrideUp never fills one in.
That is the whole point of the morning dashboard: telling an athlete who reported and felt fine from one who said nothing at all.
Measures
Section titled “Measures”A measure is a named quantity tracked for an athlete over time.
Personal best is the fastest time an athlete has recorded for an event. It comes from their competition results.
One-rep max is the estimated maximum for a lift. The athlete logs a real set, weight and reps, and StrideUp computes the maximum from it.
How measures reach the training
Section titled “How measures reach the training”A running effort can be written as a percentage of a personal best, and a strength load as a percentage of a one-rep max. StrideUp turns those into concrete targets for each athlete before the workout reaches them.
Two athletes run the same written session at their own speeds, and the coach writes it once.
Good to know
Section titled “Good to know”A check-in records how an athlete is before training. What they actually did is the session report.
The note is one line of context. Athletes and coaches do not talk to each other through it.