Strength Score is a single number that tracks how your lifts are trending, built from your estimated one-rep max on the exercises you've logged. It has three views: your own trend, national standards, and training volume. It updates as you train, without a fixed ceiling.
Where to find it
The Strength dial on Home opens a sparkline and trend summary, with a link into the full Performance page. Stats → Strength Score card shows the same score with more detail, including a Score / Standards / Muscle segmented control for the three views described below.
The three views
- Score: your own score over time. Each muscle's contribution comes from how its exercises' estimated one-rep maxes have moved against your own starting point, weighted toward what you've trained more recently. The overall score is an average across your muscles, with no upper cap: consistent, long-term training can keep pushing it up.
- Standards: compares your estimated one-rep max on key lifts to population-level tiers (Beginner, Novice, Intermediate, Advanced, Elite), adjusted for your bodyweight, sex, and age. Specialty equipment without direct population data is estimated from related lifts and marked "Estimated."
- Muscle: how much hard training each muscle is getting relative to its volume landmarks. See Volume landmarks.
Thin data widens uncertainty, not the number
If Kenso doesn't have much training history for a muscle yet, or a recent session looks unusual compared to your normal training, it treats that reading cautiously rather than immediately moving your score. The intent is that a lack of information should read as "I'm not sure yet," never as "you got weaker." A score that swings around because of thin data, rather than because of what you actually did in the gym, isn't telling you anything real. As you log more consistent training, the score settles in and reflects what you've done with more confidence.
Why it can drop
Your score can decline after time away from training a muscle: it isn't only ever going up. That's a different case from thin or unusual data: a real, sustained gap in training a muscle is treated as reduced evidence for the level it was holding, not as a single confusing data point, so the score is allowed to follow it down. Consistent, credible sessions on that muscle bring it back.
Good to know
- The Strength dial's trend label (Improving, Declining, Holding steady) and sparkline summarize the same score shown on the Performance page: tapping either takes you to the full breakdown.
- If a score looks wrong after a specific session, check whether that session had unusually few sets, a swapped exercise, or missing RPE. See Why did my Strength Score drop?.