Streaks, weeks and history — how not to drop off in February
Consistency beats heroics. Three things in the app that show it, and one way of reading them that doesn't discourage.
Plans don't fall apart on the hard sessions, they fall apart on a Wednesday evening when the trainer lives in the basement. Three hours a week for five months builds more than eight hours a week for three weeks and quitting.
The streak counts weeks, not days
The streak on the dashboard grows when a week has at least one completed workout. A daily one would punish rest days; a weekly one survives flu and a business trip. Empty week? The card says: "Log at least one workout this week to keep your streak."
A tick is a completed workout, a dot one that's planned and not done yet, a cross one deliberately skipped. An empty cell is a day with nothing planned.
The seven-day strip shows where there is still room this week. Below it, the load: TSS collected against planned.
XP and levels
Every recording earns XP, and the total gives your level ("… / … XP TO LV…"). It says nothing about form — it says how much work you've put in. That rescues the weeks when FTP sits still despite training: adaptation comes in steps, and the counter grows just for turning up.
History says more than any single session
In "Activity" under Progress, look in this order:
- "TIME IN ZONE" — whether the session was what it was meant to be.
- "NORM. POWER" next to "AVG POWER" — a large gap on a steady session means ragged riding.
- "STREAMS" — heart rate creeping up at constant power is a cost. The same session a month later with a flat heart rate is proof of progress, often earlier than a test.
For the week when you don't want to do anything — so it isn't empty.
Consistency is easier when you're not alone — the last piece: what happens to your recordings outside Ognik.