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Personal records.

Your prescribed run paces and heart-rate zones are personalised, not generic. Three inputs drive them, all in Settings → Training inputs → Performance baselines:

  • VDOT — derived from your most recent 5K time (or any race / time trial you log). Powers every Easy / Marathon / Threshold / Interval / Repetition pace target. Update by logging a fresh time trial — see Logging time trials below.
  • Max HR — initially estimated from your date of birth (220 − age). The estimate refines upward whenever a synced activity reports a higher value, and you can override with a measured max HR if you’ve done a proper test.
  • 1RMs (squat, deadlift, bench) — seed initial strength loads when you start a stream. Update them when you re-test or hit a new top single.

The more accurate your inputs, the more accurate your prescriptions. Vague benchmarks mean conservative defaults; honest benchmarks mean targeted progression from week one.

Related
Logging time trials (and how VDOT updates)Open Settings → Training inputs → Performance baselines → Time trials. Log distance + time + date; VDOT recomputes from the fastest equivalent effort and feeds next week’s pace prescriptions.Quick recalibrateA one-tap path to nudge VDOT up or down when easy paces feel wrong, without rewriting this week’s plan. Lives in Settings → Training inputs → Program shape → Quick recalibrate.Plate-friendly weightsPrescribed strength weights round to the nearest plate-loadable increment in your unit — 5 lb for lbs, 2.5 kg for kg. No more 177 lb bench.
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