FAQs & Support

What does my four letter Fitness Profile mean?

Your fitness profile will be a series of four letters, arranged in a certain order. The letters are:

A, which stands for ‘Absolute Strength’, or your ability to lift heavy weights.

P, which stands for ‘Power’, or your ability to move weights and your body quickly.

R, which stands for ‘Relative Strength and Stamina’, or your ability to move your own bodyweight.

W, which stands for ‘Work Capacity’, or your ability to complete cardiorespiratory efforts (things that make you breath hard).

Your profile ranks these four letters in order from weakness to strength. So the first letter is the one that needs the most work. As you’ll see soon, this will be useful when ROM Programming comes to determine what types of sessions you should be doing.

Below your four letter profile, you’ll see a description of your profile, which should describe your abilities pretty accurately.

What does the Fitness Balance Wheel tell me?

The four coloured segments of the Fitness Balance Wheel show how balanced you are. For example, if one of the segments is much bigger than the others, it means you really specialise in that area. If one segment is much smaller, it means it’s a weakness, and something that needs a lot of work.

What is my Fitness Balance Number, and what does it mean?

In the middle of the wheel, you’ll see your Fitness Balance Number. This number is the best measure we have of how balanced you are (it’s the standard deviation of the four sections of the Fitness Balance Wheel). The smaller the number, the more well rounded you are, the bigger the number, the more we need to work on improving your weaknesses. Over time, it’s our aim to reduce this number and balance out your health and fitness.

What is the ‘My Movement Averages’ chart, and how is it calculated and used?

You’ll see there are eight different things we look at here:

Squat strength and stamina: How much strength and stamina you have in squat movements.

Pull from ground strength: How strong you are in picking up something from the ground.

Pull from ground power: How fast and powerful you are.

Pressing strength: How much pressing strength you have.

Pressing stamina: How long you can keep going with upper body pressing movements.

Pulling stamina: How long you can keep going with upper body pulling movements.

Rowing: How good you are at rowing over various distances.

Running: How good you are at running over various distances.

ROM Programming calculates your average score for each of these bars on the chart. For example, in the ‘squat strength and stamina’ column, it will calculate the average score you rated during your profiling in all types of squats (front squats, back squats, overhead squats, squat cleans, squat snatches etc). The two lowest scores here will be highlighted in red on the chart. This allows us to determine, on a more ‘micro’ level, which things you really need to work on to improve your health and fitness.

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