I’ve realised that my Signature has got overstated over the last 12 months ,basically because I’ve had my Decay Method set to Slow and not had any breakthroughs in that period and a year old in your late 60’s is a bigger deal than in your 20 or 30’s.
So I set the decay rate to Aggresive and and recalculated my signature from the last saved good breakthrough which was 12 months ago. The result was a reduced signature which I believe more accurately reflects where I am at.
My question is that for going forward do I save the new signature on the first activity going forward that reflects the reduced signature without it being a breakthrough and then change the decay method to “Optimal” or do I not need to even save the revised signature after my next activity.
After recalculating your recent data with the Aggressive decay? Do you have a relatively recent breakthrough? If so, I would switch back to ‘Optimal’ decay and use the ‘Recalculate from Last Breakthrough’ option which will recalculate everything since that breakthrough using the Optimal decay method.
The issue is that my last breakthrough was 12 months ago, and I felt my Signature had become overstated due to the “Small Decay” setting I had selected. I’ve since recalculated it using the more aggressive approach, and I’d like to retain that new Signature. However, going forward, I’d prefer to track progress using the “Optimal Decay” setting.
One challenge is that, regardless of how sophisticated the software is at tracking fitness signatures relative to training load, it doesn’t account for the natural decline in physical capabilities that comes with age—particularly for someone in their late 60s. That kind of gradual age-related change isn’t something I believe any software can currently model accurately.
Also, as I get older, chasing breakthroughs has become less appealing. They’re starting to take too much out of me—hence the 12-month gap since my last one.