The weekly target leaves room for rest

Rest is part of training, not a gap in it. Any program worth following has days where the plan is to do nothing, on purpose, because that’s when the adaptation from the other days actually happens. A daily streak can’t tell the difference between that and just not showing up.

The problem with counting every day

If the unit is the day, a rest day and a missed day look exactly the same: both are a blank cell. The only way to keep the streak whole is to fill every cell, which means either training through the days you shouldn’t, or watching the number reset on the days you’re supposed to be resting. Neither outcome is one a training plan would recommend.

What counting the week fixes

PaceStreak’s target is weekly — three days, four days, whatever the habit can actually take — and the week counts as kept once the target is met, not once every day is filled. Someone whose plan is three training days and four rest days meets their target on day three and spends the rest of the week exactly as planned, with nothing left to protect and nothing at risk.

The target itself is the tool for saying how much rest belongs in the week. Set it at three and you’ve told the system four days off is the plan, not an exception you’re hoping isn’t noticed.

What this doesn’t mean

It doesn’t mean rest is invisible. A day marked as planned rest is different from a day that’s simply empty, and the grid can tell them apart — the point isn’t to hide the difference, it’s to stop the difference from costing anything. Rest that was the plan should read as the plan, not as a hole in an otherwise perfect week that never needed to exist.