Cardio Load Targets

[Krange]

I’m a 40 year old leisure athlete returning to fitness after having kids. I’m finding my cardio load targets to be confusing. My target ranges are usually very low - less than 14. I’m an active person with two young children and usually get my 10,000 steps in a day whether I try to or not just by virtue of being busy. I keep getting messages that I am overtraining but am having a hard time not going over my target cardio load. Yesterday I took my kids to the pool and did minimal chores around the house and still over did my target load of 12. It seems so incredibly low considering my overall fitness level, which isn’t great in an historical context for me, but still I’m relatively active and fit. 

[RiekoC]

Hello @Krange 

You might be interested in the information on this page regarding Cardio Load and Cardio Target Load (<-- click link).

Out of curiosity, what are you getting for your Daily Readiness score? If you have a low Readiness score, you'll also get a low Cardio Target range. 

[Shey2k]

I am experiencing a similar thing. It's quite frustrating because it's not useful. I work as a caregiver. I often go over my target load. It really doesn't matter what my readiness is, even if it's good. The load is low for the day and often low for a few days in a row while it tells me I'm at risk of overtraining. And then it will say the next day your load is somewhere over 100 and warn me that I'm at risk of under training. And I'm following its advice as far as what I should be doing. So I'm going to start ignoring it and just living my life like I do. Working out like I want to every other day and doing calisthenics on the days in between and let it it think I'm overdoing it.