What Is WurQ Fitness Score and Why It’s a Better Metric Than PRs Alone

Most athletes track their progress through PRs.
Weight moved. Time on the clock. Reps completed.
It’s a satisfying way to measure improvement.

But often, it’s not enough.

Because PRs only reflect the final number. They don’t show what happened underneath: how you got there, how well you paced, how much of your range of motion you maintained, how consistent your rep quality was, how hard you pushed, or if you just gutted it out inefficiently.

WurQ Fitness Score exists to give you that missing picture.
It’s a proprietary score that measures how much power you actually produced compared to how much power you could have produced. It’s grounded in physical reality. How much real work you did, how well you did it, and how much time it took you. WurQ is designed to reflect the full story of performance instead of delivering surface-level stats that aren’t actionable.

What Is Power?
In physics, power is the rate at which work gets done.
In training, that means how much you lifted (or moved), how far it traveled, and how long it took you to do it.

That’s the foundation of WurQ Fitness Score: A quantifiable, movement-based measurement of output that is not a guess, not a feeling and not just heart rate or bar speed in isolation. But knowing your raw power output is just the starting point.

WurQ goes one important step further.

Because raw power output still doesn’t tell you what could have been. Maybe you went out too hot and
blew up in round two. Maybe your reps slowed down or shortened in the back half of the workout or set. Maybe you took more rest than necessary between movements or not enough, and your form broke down.

Think of this as horsepower in a car. A car, you in this case, might be capable of producing 500 horsepower. Your engine is tuned for performance! It might feel like you are using all of that horsepower when you’re driving, but in reality you could be using just a fraction of your engine's capability without knowing it. WurQ allows you to see how much horsepower you are using.

That’s where the second layer of the score comes in.

Actual vs. Potential Power
WurQ Fitness Score compares your actual power output to an estimated ceiling: your potential power, based on how you could have performed with an optimized strategy. More efficient pacing, consistent ROM, better movement quality, and optimized rest.

This is where the proprietary intelligence lives.

WurQ is building a context-aware modeling rather than a fixed algorithm. It adapts as you train more, as it sees how your body responds under different loads, time domains, and fatigue levels. It learns what “good output” looks like for you specifically. And it begins to inform your training as if a coach were watching and learning about you.

If you consistently fall off in the second half of workouts, it will see that. If you tend to shorten your range when fatigue sets in, it will account for that. If you’re moving well and managing rest strategically, it will recognize that too and show it in your Fitness Score.

Why It’s More Useful Than PRs

A PR doesn’t tell you what’s repeatable.
Or what’s efficient or whether your movement held up.

A PR can happen on a fluke good day or come at the cost of breakdown and fatigue that sets you back the next week.

WurQ Fitness Score is a pattern.
It reflects sustainability, not just peak effort. And over time, it gives you a much clearer picture of whether your training is moving you forward.

What It Means for Athletes

So how can you use this data?

Start by wearing WurQ for all of your workouts. Nothing else. Review each session, but hold off on changing anything for two to three weeks. This is enough time to complete a variety of workouts varying in intensity, time domain, and load. Over this period of time your data will start to reflect trends.

You will begin to get a clearer picture of your capabilities. Which time domains are strong? Which do you struggle with? What movements seem to limit you? Does the time of day affect your workout?

Now you can act. Start by using the data WurQ has gathered to inform your strategy on a workout with a time domain that isn’t your strong suit. Maybe you come out more controlled to finish strong. Or send it from the beginning because the data shows you typically end with a lot of potential left.

There are a number of adjustments that can be made based on your data.

The point is, having the data allows you to make informed decisions about exactly what to change, or experiment with.

PRs are satisfying. But they’re only part of the story.
WurQ Fitness Score is the rest of it.

It gives you a smarter compass to navigate your training — and helps you build toward performance that lasts.

 

- Jake Marconi
   HWPO Strong Head Coach