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When Athletes Submit Wellness and RPE: 5,605 Check-Ins

Fractall platform data from 631 athletes at 32 clubs. Wellness peaks at 08:00, sRPE after 17:00, and the median athlete-week holds two check-in days.

Published 13 September 2026

Fractall platform data

The sample

5,605 wellness and sRPE submissions from 631 athletes at 32 clubs, 9 April to 13 September 2026.

Quick answer

Across 5,605 check-ins from 631 athletes at 32 clubs between 9 April and 13 September 2026, wellness and sRPE land at opposite ends of the day. In Portugal, 67% of wellness submissions arrive between 06:00 and noon, and one in five lands in the 08:00 hour alone. sRPE runs the other way: 53% arrive after 16:00, with 26% between 17:00 and 19:00. Weekly participation is lower than most monitoring plans assume. Of 1,713 athlete-weeks containing at least one check-in, 47% contain exactly one day and only 14% reach five or more.

You set the wellness prompt for 09:00 and half the squad still hasn't answered by lunchtime. You chase a weekend sRPE and get nothing back. Most monitoring plans carry an assumption about when athletes respond and how often, and that assumption is rarely measured.

5,605

Wellness and sRPE check-ins analysed

631 athletes at 32 clubs, 9 April to 13 September 2026. The IP data places those athletes in 32 countries, which is two numbers happening to match rather than one club per country.

Every figure here counts submitted check-ins. We also record a form-start event. Dividing submissions by starts gives 11.9% for wellness and 20.9% for sRPE, but that start event looks like it fires on navigation rather than on a genuine attempt, so those rates aren't ones we trust and they appear nowhere else in this article.

Source: Fractall platform telemetry, aggregated. 5,605 wellness and sRPE submissions from 631 athletes at 32 clubs, 9 April to 13 September 2026. Hour-of-day figures cover Portugal only (2,223 submissions from 267 athletes), converted to local time. No club, athlete or individual response is identified.

Time of day

Wellness is a morning habit, sRPE is an evening one

67% of wellness check-ins arrive before noon. 53% of sRPE check-ins arrive after 16:00.

Local time in Portugal, the largest single market in the sample at 2,223 submissions from 267 athletes.

Local time, Portugal	Wellness submissions	sRPE submissions
00:00 to 06:59	17	20
07:00 to 08:59	322	51
09:00 to 11:59	448	107
12:00 to 13:59	168	259
14:00 to 16:59	87	87
17:00 to 18:59	46	281
19:00 to 23:59	65	265

The split is sharper than the coaching literature usually implies. Wellness clusters tightly in the hours before training, with a single spike at 08:00 carrying 238 of 1,153 submissions. sRPE spreads across the afternoon and evening and keeps arriving until midnight, which is what you'd expect from a rating collected after a session rather than before one.

A wellness prompt sent at midday arrives after two thirds of your athletes would already have answered it. An sRPE reminder sent at 16:00 is early for half of them. If you're rebuilding the prompt schedule, our guide to athlete buy-in covers what athletes need back in exchange for answering at all.

Day of week

The weekend split is asymmetric

Both markets drop at the weekend, and sRPE drops harder than wellness does.

Two markets, counted in their own local time, so the day boundaries are right.

Day	Portugal, wellness / sRPE	South Africa, wellness / sRPE
Monday	136 / 137	119 / 200
Tuesday	170 / 148	125 / 159
Wednesday	172 / 207	78 / 76
Thursday	199 / 217	128 / 124
Friday	205 / 183	109 / 127
Saturday	155 / 120	49 / 71
Sunday	116 / 58	22 / 8

Both markets show the same shape. Volume holds Monday to Friday, then drops at the weekend, and sRPE drops harder than wellness does. On a Portuguese Sunday, sRPE runs at half the wellness volume; in South Africa it runs at about a third. Across the working week the two sit level or sRPE runs ahead.

That gap makes sense once you look at what each form asks. Wellness is answerable on a rest day. An athlete who didn't train has no session to rate, so a missing Sunday sRPE isn't a compliance failure. Chasing it is how you spend athlete goodwill on nothing.

Weekly participation

What weekly participation actually looks like

1,713 athlete-weeks. Nearly half hold a single check-in day, and 14% reach five or more.

1,713 athlete-weeks, each one an athlete who submitted at least one check-in that week. Weeks with no submissions at all aren't counted, so this is the participating population rather than the whole roster.

Check-in days in the week	Athlete-weeks	Share
1 day	811	47.3%
2 days	320	18.7%
3 days	189	11.0%
4 days	154	9.0%
5 days	114	6.7%
6 days	86	5.0%
7 days	39	2.3%

47.3%

of athlete-weeks hold a single check-in day

The median athlete-week holds two days. 14.0% reach five or more, and 2.3% reach all seven.

If your monitoring plan assumes daily submissions from everyone, this is the gap between the plan and what happens. The sample includes clubs in their trial weeks, where a burst of activity followed by nothing is normal and drags the distribution down. It also includes clubs that only ask for check-ins on training days, where three or four is the target rather than a shortfall.

Closing that gap is a design problem rather than a discipline problem, and our guide to athlete compliance covers the friction that decides whether a squad answers at all.

Limits

What this data can't tell you

A selected user base, IP-derived timezones, and no way to know whether a submitted answer was an honest one.

This is Fractall's user base, not a random sample of clubs. It describes clubs that chose to use an app, which is already a selected group.

Timezone comes from IP, so an athlete on an away trip is counted in the wrong place. That's why the hour analysis is restricted to a single market instead of pooled.

The data records when a check-in arrived, not whether it was honest. An athlete tapping through the same four sliders every morning at 08:00 produces the same event as one thinking about the answer.

And 5,605 submissions is a modest sample. A pattern that holds across both markets is worth acting on. A two-point difference between adjacent hours is not.

Application

What to do with it

Four changes a coach can make to the monitoring schedule this week.

Changes worth making to the schedule

Set the wellness prompt for the hour athletes are awake and not yet training, which in this sample means before 09:00.
Leave the sRPE window open late. A quarter of submissions arrive between 17:00 and 19:00, and another quarter after that.
Stop counting weekend sRPE as a miss on days the squad didn't train.
Pick a realistic weekly target before you measure against it. If three days is what your programme needs, a five-day expectation manufactures a compliance problem that isn't there.

In Fractall

Where these numbers come from

The same submissions a coach already sees on their own athlete records.

The events behind this article are the same ones a coach sees as submissions in their own dashboard: an athlete opens the app, answers the wellness sliders or rates the session with session RPE, and the result lands on their record. A club already collecting both has those same events behind its own numbers.

How a check-in reaches the coach

The athlete answers wellness sliders or rates the session on their phone, which is where the timestamps in this article come from.

The submission lands on that athlete's record, next to their training load and their previous check-ins.

The coach sees the squad's submissions for the day without chasing anyone individually for them.

Fractall aggregates those submissions per team rather than per platform, so the comparison a coach gets is their own squad this month against their own squad last month.

Your squad's own version of these charts

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FAQs

Frequently asked questions

What coaches ask when their monitoring plan and their submission rate disagree.

What time do athletes usually fill in wellness questionnaires?

In the morning, before training. Across 1,153 wellness submissions from Portuguese clubs between April and September 2026, 67% arrived between 06:00 and noon local time, and 238 of them landed in the 08:00 hour alone. Only 46 arrived between 17:00 and 19:00.

When do athletes submit session RPE?

After the session, and later than most coaches expect. Of 1,070 sRPE submissions from Portuguese clubs in the same period, 53% arrived after 16:00, 26% between 17:00 and 19:00, and a further 265 after 19:00. Submissions kept arriving up to midnight.

What is a realistic athlete monitoring compliance rate?

Lower than most plans assume. Across 1,713 athlete-weeks in which an athlete submitted at least one check-in, 47.3% contained exactly one check-in day, the median was two, and only 14% reached five or more. That population includes clubs in trial weeks and clubs that only collect on training days.

Do athletes check in at weekends?

Less, and the two forms diverge. Wellness holds up better than sRPE because it's answerable on a rest day. On Sundays in Portugal, 116 wellness submissions came with 58 sRPE submissions; in South Africa, 22 wellness with 8 sRPE. Across the working week in both markets the two run level or sRPE runs ahead.

Where does this data come from?

Fractall's own platform: 5,605 wellness and sRPE submissions from 631 athletes at 32 clubs, between 9 April and 13 September 2026, aggregated. No club, athlete or individual response is identified. Figures cover submitted check-ins only.

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