Please pardon the AI-generated placeholder images and some of the text at https://intensity.systems, I'm still very actively working on that.
It seems like joules would make more sense, right?
As a workout, "bike 30 km" is vague and meaningless. "bike 30km in 1h" is better, but not specific to the athlete: some have better cardio than others. Most serious cardio workouts are given in zones: "bike 1h at 60-65% of your functional threshold power" [1] – this particular workout would also be known as "zone 2 training session".
(1) https://www.trainerroad.com/blog/what-ftp-really-means-to-cy...
What you need is a small weight or something that rises up a pole depending on how hard you hit it, a great visualisation.
You could even have a bell at the top, so if this small weight hits it with enough voom it could making a resounding ding sound, so life affirming.
Perhaps you could charge a 'apenny a go, and give a prize for those that can do it. Saying Roll up Roll up to passers by in a local fair.
"High Striker": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_striker
All the superficial filler leaves a linkedin flavored taste in my mouth. I’d prefer to hear the author’s own voice and thoughts without noise injected to give the illusion of polish.
> This is the founder story: what I built, why I chose it, and what a month of hardware taught me. The engineering writeup will come later, once I've talked to someone who actually understands IP strategy.
is for real, right?
We are seeing the rift between actual hacking and vibe-building opening in real time. People always wanted to do this and get the attention. Now they can do it but it isn’t worth the attention.
> a paid month off
that's not a sabbatical anyway, is it? i thought this was 6-12 months, not one?
https://intensity.systems/ is currently unstyled.
Post also has some LLM sniffs, so I'm unsure how much of the content is true.
I've seen this before. Had a vendor become helpless after their only engineer took a 6 month sabbatical. Had to cancel orders and switch vendors because they stated "Until the engineer returns, we can not quote a delivery time." Imagine being that company...
This stuff can be negotiable if asked for and planned correctly. It won't be offered.
The Danes do it best, they basically shut down the country for 3 months every summer and have an unspoken agreement that nothing will get done.
That is really none of your business and sounds judgemental. How about we talk about the pollution you contribute when needlessly traveling for ego boosting?
Because they didn't want to? A very odd question; people have motivations/interests that aren't yours.
Bleak.. Only a month after five years.
I've been with my employer for 12 years and get a total of 296hrs PTO per year. That's probably abnormal now that I think about it and one of the reasons I've stuck around so long. I don't think I've ever used up all my PTO in a year, usually cash out a week or 2 in December.
But with the Stryd, all I got was power numbers, and the option to signup for a monthly paid subscription with some training plans that were pretty bare bones. It seems like running power meters just haven't been adopted widely enough for that critical mass of information to emerge. My realization from this is the data is useless without the tribal knowledge of how to use it. So my Stryd sits in a drawer somewhere, and I'm back to running by heart rate.
Being able to track your one rep max force you can generate could be an interesting metric especially for sprinters
I'm curious though, wouldn't a Concept2 ski-erg be the best machine for that job?
>track your one rep max force [...] especially for sprinters
Yeaaah that's the ticket =) One level of abstraction higher: you can think of that 1RM as the leftmost point on the max power curve, i.e. max force you've historically generated, from 5secs all the way to e.g. 60 mins [1].
(1) https://www.trainingpeaks.com/blog/4-key-uses-for-the-power-...
I think 4-8 weeks to recharge and reset would be helpful. What's the research say?
How do you travel and see the world like that?
Wait until we're old enough to retire and then can maybe afford it.
Maybe someone else knows more?
There are various methods to measure that strain, e.g. Strava, intervals.icu, TrainerPeak all have their slightly tweaked implementations.
TFW you want to seem intellectual
To me, the holy grail of sports training is to have simple but powerful enough models to estimate power data from dozens of movements, and fit various power curves that match real-world training.
So much promise there.
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As for Stryd: That's so interesting. I'd imagine a lot of the same parallels to cycling to apply? Once you have your running CP/FTP, I'd imagine you could follow the same cycling training plans (relative to your FTP) for the same intended stimulus.
I'm curious though, can you see the Watts/zone/W'bal/etc. values on a watch or something when you're running?
As for the Stryd... take this all with a grain of salt because I only have a consumer level understanding but: You can establish your FTP, but then the issue is setting zones from there. My understanding is that the big thing with establishing them is having an accurate estimation of LT1 and LT2 lactate thresholds. Most zone calculators are approximating that, but those calculators are based on a large body of data comparing lactate levels to cycling power in a controlled environment (a lab). That large body of data doesn’t exist for running power, and I recall reading that the little bit that does indicates that formulas for cycling power’s impact on L1/L2 thresholds don’t line up with running power. It’s also been maybe 4 or 5 years since I was engaged with this so the science may have improved!
Watch wise, when I used it, I have a Garmin Fenix, and it had options to show watts/zones/etc. You can even plug in zone based workouts just like you can with cycling power. I did find it a bit of a pain to monitor on a watch vs a bike computer, but not too big of a deal.
In my country you get to build your holiday days, so I could totally take a month off if I don't take any other days off this year. Hell, we even have a website to perfectly time it here so you get the most bang-for-your-days. lmao.
I will never comprehend this Silicon Valley mindset. You can also be a 10x engineer while drinking a martini in the balkans.
I went to japan and took 14 days. I went to Iran and took 14 days. I went to canada and took 4 weeks. I went to Mexico and took 3 weeks.
Don't you want to do things with your life? Experience them properly?
More to L-I-F-E than "I".
I'm approaching it as a workout, where you're doing dozens of hit. Good idea to have an individual strike joule view to the display though! "carnival mode"
And I brought it up to show the stark difference.
Did i heart your feelings? Are you also only working and calling that a living?
Is there a skeleton crew to run grocery and fuel?
Uprooting family and friends has little to do with taking a month off, but if things don't fall right then one runs the risk of spending their month off mostly by themselves which may or may not be attractive. I've known single teachers complain about this that they have June-August off but no one to spend it with because most of their friends are not teachers