CourtFit editorial
Court load and gym load: what the terms mean
Court load and gym load refer to different contexts of work. The terms help organise a week but do not form one universal score.
The decision in context
Court load can include practices, matches, rallies and travel. Gym load describes resistance or movement work in another setting.
How to apply it this week
A hard squash match and a dumbbell session are not interchangeable units. A single cross-sport score would hide important assumptions.
The trade-off to name
Combining contexts gives a wider view but introduces assumptions; keeping them separate is clearer but less compact.
Where the answer stops
This page is educational planning context. It does not diagnose symptoms, set an individual load, replace court practice or qualified advice, or guarantee a sport result.
Decision
| Decision | What to protect | Trade-off to name |
|---|---|---|
| Start with the real week | Choose one observable next step | State what this page cannot know |
Sources
- Physiological demands of racket sports: a systematic review — Frontiers in Psychology / PubMed CentralCompares internal-load indicators across racket sports; it is not an individual programme or a performance guarantee.
- How CourtFit works — CourtFit product documentationProduct truth is checked against the current repository and live route before publication; availability can change.