Fitness and Form

Form after today's plan

The Form and Fitness boxes on Home estimate what happens if you complete today's plan, starting from this morning's numbers. Load is planned TSS when the plan has it. That is a forecast, not a rewrite of Garmin's fitness estimate. Compare weeks shows Form entering Monday and leaving Sunday, so you can line up a race week with a normal week.

VO2, lactate, and FTP

When Garmin has published estimates, Fitness and Form also shows VO2 max, lactate threshold, and cycling FTP over time. Cycling FTP used for TSS and W'bal can still be set or overridden in Settings - Training.

Garmin training status

Garmin Connect still owns training status phrases such as Productive, Strained, or Peaking. When sync includes them, they can appear next to fitness trends. DataFrame.fit charts Form and load balance in words so you can read freshness next to today's plan. For what each status word means, open Garmin metrics in plain language.

Steps

1. 1. Read Form on HomeHome shows Form as words such as Fresh or Tired. That is fitness minus recent fatigue, not a secret code.
2. 2. Open Fitness and FormThe fitness, fatigue, and form chart lives on Fitness and Form, not Home. Scorecards at the top match those three lines.
3. 3. Use the zero lineThe dashed line is form = 0. Above is fresher; below is more accumulated fatigue. Coloured marks show when form flips.

Related articles

• Use today's plan check
• Read Recovery
• Garmin metrics in plain language
• Compare weeks