# Training streaks and consistency: how to count them without lying to yourself Updated: 2026-08-23 Published: 2026-08-23 Canonical page: https://methodapp.net/training-streaks Homepage: https://methodapp.net/ Streaks motivate until they mislead. This guide gives a definition that counts what you actually planned and did, explains why today without a session yet should not break a run, and shows how Method computes activity, partial sessions, and streaks. > **In short.** A useful streak counts days on which you completed a session and treats a planned-but-missed day differently from a day with nothing planned. Method counts consecutive training days in your timezone, lets today stay open until it ends, marks a day completed, partial, missed, or rest, only calls a day missed if you had planned it, and shows 26 weeks of activity in Monday-first weeks. The number describes what you did. It does not grade you. ## Why most streaks mislead A streak counter that ticks for any app open, or breaks the moment midnight passes without a workout, teaches the wrong lesson. It rewards logging over training and punishes sleep. Worse, it cannot tell a rest day from a skipped day, so a well-planned week with three sessions reads as four "misses". A streak is only informative if three things are true. It counts something real, it respects the plan you actually had, and it does not break on a technicality. ## A definition that holds up **Training day.** A calendar day in your timezone with at least one completed session. **Streak.** Consecutive training days. The current streak counts back from today. If today has no session yet, it does not break a streak that ran through yesterday; the day is still open. The longest streak is the longest run of training days in the window. **Day status.** Each day is one of completed, partial, missed, or rest. - **Completed.** At least one session finished as prescribed. - **Partial.** A session was completed but an exercise fell short of its prescription. Cardio-only sessions are never partial. - **Missed.** A session was planned for that day and none was completed. Only planned days can be missed. - **Rest.** Nothing planned, nothing done. When a day has more than one status, completed wins over partial, which wins over missed. ## What "planned" means here Missed depends on the plan. That is why a tracker needs the plan stored separately from the log; see [planned vs completed](/planned-vs-completed). In Method, a session scheduled to a date is the plan. A day with no scheduled session is a rest day by definition, even if you usually train on that weekday. An ad hoc workout on a rest day is a training day, counted toward the streak, and never read as something you were supposed to do. ## Window and weeks Method's activity view covers the last 26 weeks. Weeks run Monday to Sunday in your timezone. The week view shows sessions per week; the day view is the heatmap of statuses above. Workouts imported from Apple Health that you never opened Method to record, for example a walk from your watch, are in history but are not counted as app activity. That keeps the activity view about the training you logged against your plan. ## Using it without being used by it A streak is a description of the recent past. It says you trained on these days in a row. It does not say the training was good, and a streak that ends is not a failure; a planned deload week with two sessions is a good week with a short streak. Method shows the counts and the statuses and stops there. It does not send you a notification to keep a streak alive, and it does not score you. ## Common questions ### How does Method define a streak? Consecutive training days. A training day is a calendar day in your timezone with at least one completed session. The current streak counts back from today, and a today with no session yet does not break a run that ended yesterday. ### Is a rest day a missed day? No. Missed applies only to days you actually planned a session and did not complete one. A day with nothing planned is a rest day, and it is never shown as missed. ### Does a partial session count? It counts as a training day. It is shown as partial, not completed, when an exercise fell short of its prescription. Cardio-only sessions are always complete. ### What window does Method show? Activity covers the last 26 weeks, in Monday-first weeks in your timezone, with a day-level view showing completed, partial, missed, and rest. ## About this page Method writes and maintains this page. Every statement about Method is checked against the shipped product. For general references, link to https://methodapp.net/.