Chapter 11

Participant card

The participant card is the personal page of one participant. It collects, in a single window, everything the program knows about them: their data, their history and — most useful — how their heart rate changes over weeks and months. Use it to see progress: a falling average heart rate at the same effort is a good sign.

11.1 Opening the card#

Open Tools → Participants and then either:

  • double-click the participant, or
  • right-click the participant and choose Participant card (the first item in the menu).
The participant card.

11.2 The left panel#

The left panel has two sections.

Participant details — the nickname in large letters, the full name below it, and then the gender (with an icon), age, weight, height, Max HR, default device and e-mail. The Edit button opens the participant’s form, so you can correct something without leaving the card.

From trainings — figures from the participant’s whole history:

Line Meaning
First training / Last training The dates of the first and the last measured training
Number of trainings How many trainings the participant took part in
Total training time The sum of the recorded time
Calories burned The sum of the calories

11.3 The Statistics tab#

The right panel shows a bar chart. For every training or period there are two bars:

  • a green bar — the average heart rate;
  • a red bar — the highest heart rate.

Above the chart the program shows the total time and the calories of the range you selected.

The five ranges of the chart.

Choose the range with the buttons above the chart:

Range What the bars represent
Last 30 trainings One pair of bars per training, the 30 most recent
This month The trainings of the current calendar month
Previous month The trainings of the previous month
Last 30 weeks One pair of bars per week
Last 30 months One pair of bars per month

When there is less history than the maximum of 30 positions, the chart is simply shorter. A week or a month in which the participant did not train appears as a gap.

How the numbers are calculated.

  • Only finished trainings in which the participant was actually measured are counted.
  • The average of a week or a month is weighted by time: a long training counts more than a short one.
  • The highest value of a week or a month is the highest of its trainings.

11.4 The Last trainings tab#

The second tab lists every training of the participant, with its Date, Title, Full time, Average heart rate, Maximum heart rate and Calories burned.

Right-click a training and choose View report to see this participant’s report of that training — the same figures, zone chart and heart-rate chart as in the training window. There you can click Save PDF report to export it, and Back to return to the list.

A report of a past training, opened from the card.

A participant who asks “how am I doing compared with last month?” can be answered in ten seconds: open the card, choose This month and then Previous month.