Cardio load is nonsense in my opinion

[Dom123456]

I believe this has replaced the daily readiness, i'm not finding this new feature very intuitive, the goal keeps changing I have no idea how to gauge how much or little exercise is needed, weather a rest day or not basically, the only gist I get is that I need to do some sort of cardio exercise everyday, well I know that, it's good that it can be removed from the home screen.

Moderator edit: updated subject for clarity

[Shufflincrew]

Totally agree 

[hovdeo]

@Eugene_M - totally agree with your sentiments. i tried for quite some time to find out if there was any degree of consistency with my sessions and the effort of the sessions and the observed cardio load - i found nothing. hard threshold or vo2 max session ended up with cardio load scores lower than just 35 min stroll or some yard work. 3 hr z2 ride came in with lower cardio load than a 75 min gym session. the required scores to improve fitness was all over the place, regardless of what i had done the day before. taking a day off for R&R seemed to automatically create a "you slacker". 

the idea to combine cardio with sleep, RHR, HRV etc is a good one but when the very tool/hardware used to capture the data (fitbit units, e.g. charge) is not very accurate (I have seen average HR for session being as much as 30bpm off with fitbit), everything else falls apart. i think trainingpeaks with their TSS, CTL, ATL has a better approach but they do not capture the rest of your day - and as we know "life happens" outside of your training sessions as well. 

my 2cents' worth. 

[Caldwell39]

I agree.  I Will use my own judgment plan my own training regime monitoring my heart rate

[Abcnz]

• I've had around 400 cardio several times since I started training to run longer distances - but it takes circa 3 hours in the 'Vigorous' or 'Peak' zone. I can generally only fit in my longer runs the weekend, and do shorter intervals during the week, which seems to mess with the algorithm. When I do a long run at the weekend, I'm almost invariably 'at risk of overtraining' and then it recommends virtually no activity the next few days. My interval run is then over the very low target, so more low cardio recommended. Then suddenly it is recommending a half marathon again, and keeps recommending this every day until I actually do it - at which point it usually goes back to 'you're overtraining'. So you can end up with a whole month where you never hit the target because you're always under or over what it wants you to do. I think it needs an option to plan ahead - eg if I'm planning a 30k run tomorrow, don't suggest I do one today as well. And an option to say 'I'm sick, stop telling me I need to exercise'. The other thing I've noticed is that since I've been running longer distances my rhr has dropped so that even briskly walking about doesnt get me much/any cardio load points. Not sure if this is a bug or a feature! I have increased my average daily load from about 20 in Jan to about 70 now, but because I've increased gradually, it has said literally every month that I'm 'maintaining' even though I've basically tripled it over that period. Overall, it is just too chaotic to be useful - I can see some value in a warning to build up intensity slowly if you suddenly go massively above baseline, but otherwise it doesn't seem to add any value, for me at least!