Handbook
MoveLoad tracks canoe-kayak training load from a Movesense Flash sensor worn on the chest: heart rate and acceleration, read as intensity zones and compared against your own records. This guide covers both the athlete side (phone) and the coach side (web dashboard).
Five tabs along the bottom of the app: Sessions, Sensor, Trends, HRV, Settings.
Wet the strap and put it on — that is all
Clip the Movesense Flash onto the chest strap, wet the electrodes and put it on. There is nothing to start, on the sensor or in the app: the sensor powers up on contact with the strap, waits for a pulse and starts recording by itself as soon as it finds one — it then blinks three times. A dry strap picks up nothing: it is the number one reason a session does not start.
Leave the phone aside during the session
Do not connect the sensor before going on the water: while a phone is connected to it, it refuses to start on its own, and nothing tells you so. If the app was left connected, leave it or lock the screen: it hands the sensor back. At the end, take the strap off and put it down: the recording stops after a minute without movement, and the sensor blinks five times. It also stops after a minute without a usable pulse — one more reason to wet the strap well.
Fetch the session
Leave the sensor clipped to its strap, still damp — wet it again, or shake it, if it has had time to power down: off the strap it stops answering. Then, at the top of the Sessions tab: Fetch my sessions. The app connects, imports whatever is new, and disconnects on its own. Pulling the list down does the same thing.
The very first time, you have to point the app at your sensor: Settings → Sensor, and pick yours by matching the last digits with those printed on the back of the case. After that the app only ever talks to that one, and refuses to import a session from any other — without which, in a clubhouse, it would connect to whichever is closest.
If the report says a session is still being recorded, the sensor is still recording: it will come with the next fetch, once the strap is off.
Empty the sensor, then leave the app
When the sensor's memory is full, the app offers to free it up — and it only offers once it has checked that everything is safely with you, including whatever the sensor's own list was not showing. Accept: the sensor lists only four recordings at a time, and the next ones would become invisible. Nothing to do afterwards, the app has already disconnected.
Cannot connect? Usually the sensor has gone to sleep: off the strap it powers down and disappears from the scan entirely. Put it back on the strap and shake it. Otherwise check that Bluetooth is on and access granted (iOS Settings → MoveLoad → Bluetooth). Also worth knowing: a sensor already connected to another device stops advertising and becomes invisible — disconnect it from that device first.
Never laundry detergent, never fabric softener. Detergent leaves a film on the fibre — that is what it is for — invisible, water-repellent once dry, and insulating. On a heart-rate strap's conductive bands that is enough to make the measurement unusable: the sensor finds a pulse for a few minutes, then misses one beat in two, then nothing at all. Nothing shows, the strap looks clean, and the sensor gets the blame.
Rinse under clear water after every outing and dry it flat. If it needs more than that, use plain soap only — a pure fatty-acid soap with no softener and no silicone — scrub both electrode bands, and rinse at length.
If it has already happened, nothing is lost: a wash with plain soap takes the film off and the strap measures normally again. That is exactly what happened in September 2026 — one wash with detergent, five days of wrong readings nothing could explain, and one wash with plain soap to put it right.
Ten minutes exactly: five lying down, then five standing. What the test measures is how your nervous system reacts to the change of position, so the conditions matter as much as the measurement. Always do it the same way: on waking, before coffee, before reading your messages, before getting out of bed. A test taken under different conditions does not compare with the previous ones, and a series that does not compare is worth nothing.
Get up, urinate, wet the strap
Get up and go to the toilet: a full bladder shifts the tone of the nervous system, which is exactly what the test measures. While you are there, wet the electrodes under the tap — a dry strap picks up nothing, and it is the number one reason a test will not start.
Put the strap on and lie back down
Put the strap on, then lie down again on your back and let yourself come back down: you have just been walking, so the first minutes lying would be recovery rather than rest. The time it takes to settle is enough — do not count the seconds, do it the same way every morning. It is the consistency that makes the tests comparable, not the exact duration. Then the HRV tab → Start the test. The app waits until the signal is good. Twenty seconds of checking, and a warning if the sensor is missing beats. Put the phone down and stop looking at it. The screen will not switch itself off during the test.
If the checking screen stays orange
Lift one electrode off the skin for two seconds and put it back.
Five minutes lying down
Still, on your back, without talking and without falling asleep. Breathe normally: do not try to slow your breathing down, it distorts the measurement. A chime and a vibration announce the end.
Stand up, then five minutes standing
Get up briskly at the chime: it is the abruptness of the change that produces the response being measured. Then stand still, leaning on nothing, until the second chime.
Answer the five questions
They come straight afterwards, on the same screen: fatigue, sleep, muscle soreness, stress, mood, each 1 to 5. Answer there and then — put off, they never get filled in. The coach sees only the total score, never your answers.
Why five minutes and not four. The first half-minute of each position and the last are left out of the calculation: the first is the transition rather than the position, the last is you anticipating the end. That leaves four analysed minutes per position, which is what the spectrum needs to be usable. It is also why a test cut short at four minutes is flagged as unreliable rather than thrown away.
What the test does not tell you. The verdict describes a physiological state and the deltas behind it. It never says which session to do: that depends on the week's plan, the water and how you feel, none of which the app knows. Nor does a single day mean anything — it is the repetition that speaks, which is why it is worth not skipping mornings.
Your full history. With a session open, swipe left for the next one, right for the previous one. In the list, swiping a session left deletes it — on the phone only; it stays on the sensor until the memory is erased.
How your records progress by window, perceived exertion over time, and time in the cardio and mechanical zones across all your sessions.
Erasing the sensor's memory (Settings → Sensor) wipes the whole logbook at once — the sensor cannot delete one session on its own. The app warns you if some sessions have not been downloaded yet. Irreversible.
A web dashboard, nothing to install — each athlete's data arrives live as soon as they sync from their phone.
Sign in with the account that holds your place in the team: the dashboard finds your teams by itself. Invited as a coach? Open the link you received first.
The Sign in button at the top right creates an account or signs you back into one, either with Continue with Google or with an e-mail address and a password — if you forget it, “Forgot password?” e-mails you a link to choose a new one. That account carries your place in the team, and so what you can see and do. If you follow several teams, a menu at the top switches between them.
The project is set to one account per address: Google and a password on the same address will never create two separate coach accounts. That said, if you started with a password, Google sign-in on that address may be refused — Firebase asking you to prove the account is yours. If that happens, sign in with the password.
The test measures how the nervous system responds to going from lying to standing. Deltas are percentage changes against a reference (the median of the previous six tests, by default), and a cascade of five rules names the pattern: the first match wins, otherwise “no fatigue”. The thresholds come from the work of Laurent Schmitt and are those of the original workbook.
What you do not see, and why. The wellness questionnaire the athlete fills in after each test — fatigue, sleep, soreness, stress, mood — reaches you only as a total score. The five answers never leave their phone. That is the condition for answering it honestly, and an honest score beats five cautious answers. The verdict itself describes a physiological state: it never says which session to do.
Nothing to refresh by hand: the page updates as soon as an athlete syncs. An invitation is worth a seat until it is used: pass it only to the person invited.