How Peakreel works out your usual training week
Most training apps compare you with a target someone else set, or with other people. Peakreel compares you with one person only: you, a few weeks ago.
Your usual week is the middle of the last eight
When the dashboard says “by now you usually have 4”, it looks at your last eight full weeks, lines up how many sessions each one had, and takes the middle value. That’s the median.
Say your last eight weeks were 4, 5, 4, 0, 4, 9, 4 and 5 sessions. The average is 4.4. The median is 4.
The median wins for two reasons:
- A week off doesn’t drag it down. The 0 above (a cold, a trip, a busy week at work) barely moves it.
- One huge week doesn’t push it up. A training camp with 9 sessions doesn’t turn into a new normal you then fail to reach.
Eight weeks is about two months: long enough to smooth out a single odd week, short enough to follow you when your training really changes.
“By now” is fair to the day of the week
On a Wednesday, comparing your week so far with a whole usual week isn’t fair. So the overview also shows a short tick on this week’s bar: how many sessions you usually have by this day of the week, again the median of the last eight weeks.
That’s where the calm sentences come from: “On track this week”, “A quieter week so far” or “A full week already”.
The current week never breaks a streak
A run of weeks counts weeks in a row with at least one session. The week you’re in isn’t over yet, so it can only add to the run, never end it. On a Monday morning you haven’t broken anything.
No other people, no medical claims
Peakreel never ranks you against anyone else, and it doesn’t tell you what’s healthy. It shows what your own data says, next to your own usual. Rest weeks are part of training, and the numbers are there to notice patterns, not to judge them.
You can see all of this on real data in the live demo.