Training pace checkmark

In the JOIN app, you'll find a dashboard with a training pace checkmark that helps you determine whether you're training too little or too much. Even if you're following the JOIN plan closely, the checkmark may still show that your fitness is declining if you have too little time available for training. On the other hand, JOIN will never give you too many workouts, even if you have a lot of time available. As a general rule, the JOIN training plan is designed to avoid overloading you, but you can choose to ignore this advice and receive a notification.

To ensure that you're maintaining the right balance, try to keep the checkmark green as much as possible. With our guidance, this shouldn't be too difficult. Below is an overview of the different statuses you may see.

Your fitness is declining

You're not doing enough to maintain your current fitness level. Try to do a little bit more to prevent your fitness level from declining too much.

Try to do a bit more

Your fitness level is currently stable but not progressing. You need to do a bit more if you want to keep improving. Try to increase your availability or check the following possible issues:

1. Try to distribute your availability more evenly across the week without too many rest days in a row.
2. A higher level comes with higher expectations from our side. If you want to do fewer hours or improve a little slower, just set your activity profile a category lower.
   
   

Your fitness is improving

You are doing perfectly fine! Try to maintain this training regime and you will keep progressing.

You are doing a bit too much

You have been doing a little bit too much lately. We will take this into account and plan some easier workouts and rest days to allow you to recover properly. A good recovery is a crucial part of getting better. If you are doing too much for too long you can get overtrained and instead of improving, you actually achieve the opposite.

You are overtraining

You have been doing way too much. Take a break to recover properly and avoid getting overtrained. If you get this alert frequently, please check if you have not set your level too low in the athletic profile.