Tests and Daily Check-ins
Stride keeps two kinds of body and nutrition data alongside your training: short daily check-ins, and occasional tests such as a DEXA scan.
Daily check-ins#
Five check-ins sit with your other metrics, under Daily Check-in:
| Check-in | What to enter |
|---|---|
| Urine Specific Gravity | The reading from a refractometer, for example 1.012 |
| Urine Colour | Your first urine of the day, from clear to orange |
| Basal Temperature | Your temperature on waking, before you get up |
| Appetite | How hungry you feel, from extremely hungry to extremely full |
| Urine Osmolality | A lab reading in mOsm/kg, usually taken the morning after a race |
On the web, open Metrics in the sidebar, select Add metric and choose the check-in. In the app, tap Add (or +) and choose Record Metric. Urine colour and appetite are picked from a list; the others are numbers. Temperature follows your units setting.
Your coach can add a check-in for you while viewing your account, and it shows who entered it.
Tests#
Open Tests in the sidebar to see your test results and add your own. Choose Add test and pick the kind:
- DEXA scan: total, fat and lean mass and bone density. Stride works out your fat percentage.
- InBody scan: weight, muscle mass, fat mass and body water from a bioimpedance scale.
- Skinfolds: the eight sites in millimetres. Stride adds up the sum once all eight are in.
- Ultrasound: fat thickness at eight sites, measured by ultrasound.
- Circumferences: arm, thigh, waist, hips and calf.
- Sweat test: weight before and after, what you drank and ate, and the conditions. Stride works out your sweat rate, how much weight you lost and, with a sodium reading, how much sodium you lose an hour.
- Bicarbonate blood test and Bicarbonate and weight, for planning a bicarbonate protocol.
- Low residue diet, Ketone ester and Basal metabolic rate.
Each kind has a chart above a table of results. For the bicarbonate and low residue protocols, enter your weight for each of the four days with the test, or leave a day empty and Stride uses your weight log for it.
Who sees what
Results you add are always visible to you and your coaches. When your team's staff record a result, they choose who sees it: you and the staff, all staff, or only staff with a particular role such as nutrition or medical.
Frequently asked questions
- Can my coach see my test results?
- Yes. Results you add yourself are visible to you and to the coaches and team admins of your teams, like the rest of your training data.
- Why can't I see a test my team did?
- Your team's staff choose who sees each result they record. Some are kept to staff, or to nutrition or medical staff, until they have talked them through with you.