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Manual Exercise Input

Manual Exercise Input is a Firstbeat Sports Cloud feature for adding exercises manually when a session or workout cannot be recorded, so that the athlete's training data has no gaps.

Who can use Manual Exercise Input

  • Manual Exercise Input is available in Sports Premium and Sports Premium+. To upgrade, contact your account manager.
  • Coaches can add exercises for one athlete or for all athletes of a team at once. Athletes can add exercises only for themselves.

How training load is estimated

  • Sports Cloud estimates the training impulse (TRIMP), a cumulative training load variable, from the exercise duration and an intensity estimate from 1 to 10.
  • The estimate is based on over 1.2 million training measurements in the Firstbeat Sports database. The estimate also takes into account fatigue in longer sessions and the intervals and breaks of team sessions.
  • You can adjust the Estimated TRIMP for each athlete.
  • Consistent recording of all training improves the Acute Training Load, Chronic Training Load, acute:chronic workload ratio (ACWR) and Training Status feedback.

Variables and Data Export

  • Manually added exercises include Start time, End time, Duration, TRIMP, TRIMP/min, Chronic Training Load, Acute Training Load, ACWR, Training Status, Notes and Sport.
  • Heart rate variables are not available, because no heart rate data is recorded.
  • Manually added exercises are included in Data Export and the Sports Cloud application programming interface (API).

Limitations

  • You cannot add a manual exercise when the athlete already has measurement data at the selected time.
  • Training reports are not available for manually added exercises.
  • Sports Cloud creates a session for manually added exercises automatically. Measurements (heart rate data) and manually added exercises cannot be in the same session.
  • A session with manually added exercises cannot be adjusted.

Athletes section with the message Some athletes already have measurements at selected time

Screenshot: the message "Some athletes already have measurements at selected time" with the check box of an athlete with a measurement greyed out.

Need more help? Ask the Customer Agent chat on this page or email support@firstbeat.com.