POWR Combat Conditioning Zone Calculator

How this works. Enter your two test results below – your 5 minute average and your sprint peak. The calculator builds your 7 training zones, your athlete profile, and (optionally) your target heart rates. All wattage targets are your prescription for every POWR energy system session.

Equipment – Test Device

Select the machine you tested on. Air bikes read artificially high because of fan resistance, so a correction is applied to keep profiles consistent across machines. Pick the device you used for both tests.

Air Bike – Rogue Echo / Assault
Fan resistance inflates peak watts. Modifier applied: 0.68×
Validated
Wattbike / Bike Erg / All Other Equipment
Controlled resistance. Peak reflects true output. No correction applied.
Baseline
Concept2 Row Erg / Ski Erg
Moderate flywheel spike effect. Modifier applied: 0.87×
Beta

5 Minute Test – Average Watts

Hold the hardest sustainable effort you can for 5 minutes and record your average wattage. This anchors your aerobic zones (Z1–Z5).

W
Sprint Peak – Maximal Effort

Enter the highest peak wattage from your sprint efforts (use the best of all efforts). This anchors your power profile and your Z6 / Z7 targets. Body weight is used only to calculate your power-to-weight ratio.

Peak Watts
W
Body Weight
KG

Enter both values to reveal your athlete profile.

Heart Rate – Optional

Adds target heart rates to Z1–Z4. Resting HR is required (read it off your WHOOP / watch, or take it first thing in the morning).

Max HR: enter a measured max (highest you've actually seen in training) for accurate zones. No measured max? Leave blank, enter your age, and we'll estimate it – less accurate, can be off by 10–12 bpm.

No device for resting HR? Sit still for 5 minutes, count your pulse for 30 seconds, then double it.

Resting HR
BPM
Max HR
measured
BPM
Age
backup only
YRS

Follow your watts, not your heart rate. The wattage numbers are your target. If your heart rate sits outside the range often, tell someone at POWR.
Your Profile

Power-to-Weight

Calculated from your corrected peak watts (after the equipment adjustment above), divided by body weight.

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Full Profile

Your Training Zones

Z1 Recovery Active recovery. Flush the system.
Z2 Aerobic Base aerobic development. Build the engine.
Z3 Tempo Aerobic threshold. Sustained effort.
Z4 Lactate Lactate threshold. Fight-pace conditioning.
Z5 VO2 VO2 max development. Hard intervals.
Z6 Anaerobic Anaerobic capacity. Short, brutal efforts.
Anchored to peak
Z7 Neuro Max power output. Explosive neuromuscular.
Anchored to peak

Z6 Sprint Targets – Anchored to Peak

Your Z6 anaerobic targets are built from your sprint peak, not your 5 minute test. Use this as a progression ladder: start at 65% and build tolerance before progressing up.

65%
Watts
75%
Watts
85%
Watts
65%
Entry point. Start here and build tolerance before progressing.
75%
Progress here once your output at 65% feels well within your capacity.
85%
Progress here once 75% is comfortably repeatable. Maximum neuromuscular demand.

All POWR energy system sessions reference the zones above. Save your results and use your wattage targets every session.