Rename "fitness" to "recent training load"
Your Strava fitness number has nothing to do with fitness. It goes up when you overtrain and down when you taper for a marathon. Strava should rename it to what it really is: "recent training load."
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Resolved! The fitness score of a run activity is much lower than a cycling activity.
I do both running activity and cycling activity. Sometimes my main activity is cycling such as in 2022, and sometimes my main activity is running such as in 2023 and 2024, however, the fitness score have big difference, which confused me. Let me sele...
Resolved! Alpine ski; lifts, heart rate and fitness/relative effort, Garming watch vs strava
This message is about logging a ski activity on Strava and the many problems I encountered.I have used Strava for all sorts of activity and sports tracking; running, hiking, biking, climbing, swimming, walking, workouts, etc.I am a frequent skier but...
Resolved! Fitness & Freshness values are different from Web vs App
Hi, I'd like to know if someone else also has this issue: my fitness & freshness values differ from the web vs the app... maybe it's not a bug and it's expected, but then i'd like to know why would this be implemented like this? Web: app: Does anyb...
Resolved! Runna activity not included in fitness
I use the progress features quite a lot and find them helpful i.e. monthly fitness and relative effort. I logged a 10km then yesterday via Runna and it loaded a Ross the my activity fees no problem, but it is not showing against any of my progress?
Resolved! Bug with infinite fitness
When filtering for "all time" the fitness graph seems to bug out
Resolved! No contact from support
Hi I have an issue with badly incorrect data due to a heart rate strap defect. Emailed support about four days ago and no response. Is there anyone here who can help? thanks
Resolved! Average speed graph
On rides, would it be possible to add a graph indicating average moving speed over time/distance?The reason for this request is that I’d like to see (say) that my average moving speed changed over the course of a ride. For example, plodding along at...
Resolved! What is Strava's 'Training Impulse'?
What exactly is Strava's 'Training Impulse'? It is ONLY shown when you hover over a particular ride in the 'Fitness and Freshness' curve, but the term is not defined in the Strava glossary (as far as I can find) and -of course- its not 'Training Lo...
Resolved! Fitness Trend Improvements
I like the concept of fitness as a ratio of effort/intensity vs rest over time. But the calculation needs to be updated, because as it stands, it gives me peaks of around 110, and lows of about 11 in the past two years. I know it's relative, and it'...
