February 9th 2024
With 4.4 update, Gentler Streak expands its fitness guidance with 14 new fitness statuses, providing even more precise reflection of your daily condition. Additionally, developers introduce rebuilt Apple Watch workout tracker along with six fresh custom icons.
Daily Fitness Status Expanded
Fitness status is your activity data translated into actionable guidance on the Streak tab. It derives from your acute and chronic training load along with your age and gender. Pushing your body excessively, known as overreaching in the Gentler Streak app, without adequate rest can result in muscle fatigue, decreased performance or even regression, and a higher risk of injury. It can also disrupt hormone balance, weaken the immune system, and lead to mental exhaustion. To prevent these negative effects, Gentler Streak helps you stay within your healthy activity levels during a workout, prioritizes recovery between workouts, and provides insights into your sleep and other body signals to support a sustainably active lifestyle. With this latest update, guidance, when you push outside your Activity Path into the overreaching, is now improved as it considers your behavior in the days prior. Not every overreaching is harmful–on the contrary, for progress, it’s necessary to push outside of it every couple of sessions–however, creating a trend of it is. Fourteen variations of daily fitness status have been added, most of them addressing different scenarios that pushed you above your limits.
“This update has been on the table for a long while. We were aware the overreaching status did not always reflect people’s states best, as every situation was treated the same. Now, we've refined our approach by breaking down this status into multiple categories, taking into account where users were in their Activity Path before pushing themselves beyond healthy limits. We developed adequate logic that fits individuals’ daily capabilities and supports their fitness journey more adequately. After a month of testing with 500+ people, we are ready to share this with the rest of our users. We believe this update can significantly improve the fitness journey of each person,” say the developers behind the app.
Rebuilt Apple Watch Workout Tracker
Built from the bottom up, it’s now faster, more accurate, and more battery-saving than ever before. With the app offering over 140 exercises, it’s a reliable companion for any sport, no matter the session's length or its intensity. This 2022 Apple Watch App Of The Year is free to use, with a premium Go Gentler feature (offering personalized workout tips determined in duration, type and intensity - designed to keep you inside your healthy activity levels, enabling you to control it on the go).
New Icons Coming From The Gentler Icon Challenge
Gentler Streak hosted a social media challenge, inviting users to design their own icons. Three standout submissions were selected, including one from the renowned Apple community member, Basic Apple Guy, and the others from talented artists Sara Kajba and frecelovro. Additionally, the team included homemade Blossom, Hello, and Rainbow icons. Discover them all in the Gentler Streak app under Profile > Settings > App Icon.
