What Your Session Stats Are Actually Telling You

Most players look at their session stats after training and either feel good or feel bad about the numbers. That's not really using the data. Here's what it's actually saying.

Total Reps and Pace

Rep count only means something alongside pace. A hundred reps at Pace 3 and a hundred reps at Pace 6 are completely different training stimuli. Track reps-at-pace over time. If your Pace 5 rep count keeps climbing week over week without technique falling apart, that's real fitness improvement. If it's been flat for three weeks, something in your programme needs to change.

Zone Balance Over Time

This is the most useful number for match players. Watch it across four to eight weeks. Your weakest zone almost always maps to a weakness in your actual match game: the position you avoid, the corner you dread. When that zone percentage starts climbing, your match play follows, usually within a couple of weeks.

Session Streaks and Consistency

Five moderate sessions per week, consistently, does more over a training season than one brutal session followed by ten days of nothing. The streak number is a proxy for consistency, so keep it going. When you break a streak, the question isn't how long it was. It's what actually disrupted it, and whether that changes how you schedule training going forward.

Personal Bests

When a PB falls, note which variable moved: pace, duration, or rep count. Knowing which lever changed tells you where your current adaptation is coming from, and that's the thing to keep pushing in your next session. The data doesn't do anything on its own, but two minutes looking at it after each session starts revealing patterns you'd never notice otherwise.