Use Case: Monitoring Weekly Volume and Intensity Trends

Every training week represents a delicate balance between volume, intensity, and recovery.

For performance and strength & conditioning staff, maintaining that balance is critical to avoiding cumulative fatigue while still achieving the desired adaptations.

But without a clear, connected view of how those demands accumulate day to day, small variations can compound—leading to overexposure for some athletes and under-stimulation for others.

That’s where the Performance Optimization Solution in iP: Intelligence Platform helps staff track, visualize, and compare key workload thresholds over time.

The Challenge

Performance teams often rely on multiple dashboards or alarm systems to monitor weekly workloads.

These tools provide numbers, but not always context—and without context, it’s hard to see whether training loads across a microcycle are balanced, progressive, and aligned with readiness goals.

Staff need a way to see the week as a cohesive picture, not a collection of disconnected data points.

What We Hear from Performance & Strength and Conditioning Staff

• “We track load daily, but it’s hard to see how the week as a whole looks, where we’re accumulating too much or too little.”
• “Alarms flag high metrics, but I need to understand the why behind those spikes, what sessions or players are driving them.”
• “If we can visualize volume and intensity together, we can make better calls on tapering, rotation, and recovery.”
  
  

The Solution: Visualizing Weekly Load and Intensity

Using the Performance Optimization Solution in iP: Intelligence Platform, performance staff can layer multiple workloads and intensity thresholds on a single chart.

Instead of reviewing metrics in isolation or depending on preset alarms, teams can visually assess the complete training load picture—comparing key indicators day by day, week over week.

This workflow provides immediate insight into how volume, intensity, and session design interact, enabling staff to manage individual and squad-level balance more effectively.

What You Can Do in Performance Optimization

Visualize Weekly Load Distribution

• In the Analysis section, create a dashboard and add an XY Chart.
• Use the Add Data option to plot total distance, training duration, or session RPE load across the week.
• Overlay these variables to identify how volume accumulates each day and where peaks or dips occur.

Compare Intensity Thresholds Side by Side

• Select key intensity metrics — such as high-speed running distance, sprint distance, or accelerations/decelerations.
• Add each as a separate overlay on the same chart to visualize daily fluctuations and intensity spikes.
• Use color coding or line styles to distinguish between metrics clearly. 

Assess Load Balance Across the Squad

• Apply filters for athlete, position, or unit to evaluate group-level patterns.
• Spot outliers — players who consistently exceed or fall short of weekly intensity targets — and flag them for follow-up.

Evaluate Weekly Progression and Consistency

• Build longitudinal charts comparing this week’s total volume and intensity to previous microcycles.
• Use the pivot function to switch between athletes or positions and observe load progression trends.
• Identify whether cumulative load aligns with planned periodization.

Inform Adjustments and Recovery Decisions

• Use weekly overlays to decide when to increase, maintain, or taper load based on performance goals and recovery data.
• Share dashboards directly with appropriate coaching and medical staff to maintain unified visibility across departments.
  
  

See the Weekly Volume and Intensity Workflow