What is Fitness in Torqa?

Fitness in Torqa is a rolling measure of how much training your body has absorbed over the last several weeks. It rises when you train consistently and drifts down when you rest. Alongside it sit two companions: Fatigue, which tracks the same idea over a much shorter window, and Form, which is the balance between the two.

Where do these numbers come from?

Every ride, run and swim earns a training load score based on how long and how hard it was. Torqa uses the sports-science standard model behind the performance management chart, the same approach used by coaches for decades.

• Fitness (known in the literature as CTL, chronic training load) is a weighted average of your daily training load over roughly the last six weeks, with recent weeks counting more.
• Fatigue (ATL, acute training load) is the same calculation over roughly the last week. It reacts fast, which is the point: it represents how tired you are right now.
• Form (TSB, training stress balance) is simply Fitness minus Fatigue.

Because all three are built from training load rather than any single sport's numbers, they are whole-athlete metrics. A hard trail run moves the same Fitness number a hard ride does.

How do I read Form?

Form is the one to check before a big day.

• Positive Form: you are fresher than your recent norm. Good for races, big efforts, and going after a gauntlet.
• Slightly negative Form: normal during a productive training block. You are absorbing work.
• Deeply negative Form: you are digging a hole. Some of that is how fitness gets built, but staying there too long is how overtraining starts.

What should I do with it?

Watch trends, not single days. A Fitness line that climbs steadily over months means your training is working. A Fatigue spike after a big weekend is expected and fine; what matters is that it settles. If Form stays deeply negative for weeks, schedule recovery. If Form is high and rising because you have barely trained, your Fitness is quietly falling too.

Torqa's coach reads these same numbers when it advises you, and running metrics like Grade Adjusted Pace feed the same training load model, so hilly runs count for what they actually cost.