Show Muscular load with Cardio Load
planned (tbd)
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Nicolò Castello
Hi everyone!
Does anyone else find it odd that the Bevel team renamed training load to Cardio Load - yet didn’t add any real features for tracking cardiovascular activities?
At the moment, the app tracks gym exercises directly, so it would actually make more sense to go back to calling it Training Load, since it currently measures not only cardiovascular but also muscular effort.
It’s widely known that tracking the cardiovascular impact of resistance training without including muscular and neural load is misleading.
It could be really useful to track all three components - cardio, muscular, and neural load - and merge them into a single score more appropriately called Training Load.
Amanda
Merged in a post:
Muscular Training Status (Muscle Load)
Kristoffer Knape
I’d love to see a Muscular Status metric added to the app (e.g., Productive, Maintaining, Detraining, Overreaching), similar to how Cardio Load works today.
At the moment, Cardio Load is primarily driven by heart-rate intensity. This means that heavy, high-volume strength sessions often show up as Maintaining, even when significant muscular progress is being made. Muscle growth and strength adaptation are driven mainly by training volume, mechanical tension, and progressive overload, not cardiovascular intensity alone.
A Muscular Status based on short-term vs. long-term Muscular Load trends (for example, 7-day vs. 42-day averages) would make it much easier to understand whether I’m currently building, maintaining, detraining, or potentially overreaching my muscles — in the same intuitive way I can already assess my cardio load.
Being able to see this at a glance would be incredibly valuable for anyone focused on strength training, hypertrophy, or body recomposition, and would nicely complement the existing cardio-focused insights.
That info should also be visible on the home page
Amanda
Merged in a post:
Muscular load for cardio
Josh Rickel
Can you identify what the muscular load is with some level of confidence based upon the workout? For instance? If it’s a rowing workout you have a general idea that it is with those muscle groups. I understand that might be harder with a general strength workout not knowing what the specific exercises are with running swimming and some other exercises. You should be able to take a good guess.
Amanda
updated the status to
planned (tbd)
Adding this to the roadmap. We'll think about how to best integrate muscular load as it's own metric. Cardio Load is an established concept using only cardiovascular zones, so we likely won't be mixing the two.
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Nicolò Castello
Amanda this is awesome!!