Live Energy

What is Live Energy and how does it work?

Live Energy provides minute by minute visual insights into your energy status in real time throughout the day. By tracking and predicting your energy you can understand how to optimally fuel your body to train smarter, push harder and recover faster.

Live Energy takes the following into consideration:

• Resting energy expenditure (REE)
• Sleeping energy expenditure (SEE)
• Exercise energy expenditure (EEE)
• Excess post exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC)
• Lifestyle activity (often referred to as non-exercise activity thermogenesis or NEAT)
• Planned and tracked energy intake
• Dietary induced thermogenesis (DIT)
• Body composition goals

REE, SEE, EEE, EPOC, NEAT and DIT all burn energy and as a result will cause your energy balance to decrease. Energy intake from meals and/or snacks will lead to an increase in energy balance

Live Energy is displayed on an energy balance graph where the y-axis represents the number of calories above or below balance you are, and the x-axis represents the time of day. Your Live Energy for the current minute in the day is displayed in text above this graph.

Hexis focuses on improving health and performance behaviours meal by meal and one day at a time. As a result, Live Energy resets to 0 kcal every midnight for the following day.

The Live Energy graph icons are explained below:

• Solid white line: Past
• Dotted white line: Predicted
• Solid blue line: Workout
• Small green dot: Live energy
• Large green, amber, red circle lined circle with navy centre: Planned meals
• Large green, amber, red circle: Logged meals
• White target: End of day calorie target

What is my End of Day Target?

The End of Day Target provides you with a specific target energy balance calorie number to finish the day. This information is displayed both below your Live Energy graph on its own card, as well as at the end of the day on the graph denoted by a “white target” symbol.

Your End of Day Target is tailored workouts and goals. Both of these are explained more below:

Goal

• Lose: For weight loss it is best to end the day in an energy deficit (-). This is also referred to as a “negative energy balance”.
• Maintain: To maintain weight it is best to finish the day in balance (0).
• Gain: For weight gain it is best to end the day in an energy surplus (+). This is also referred to as a “positive energy balance".

Please note, if you have a “Balance” goal your end of target may sometimes be slightly above 0. This is normal and caused by consuming a meal or snack within 6hrs of midnight. This is because there is an energy cost called DIT associated with digesting and absorbing the food we eat which can take place over a 6 hour period.

Workouts

• Sufficient energy is essential to optimally prepare for larger workout loads and to take part in competition events. As a result, your end of day target may vary around these scenarios regardless of your goal to ensure you are fuelled to perform at your peak.

What does the Day's Largest Deficit and Surplus refer to and what does it mean?

Your Day’s Largest Deficit and Surplus are individual time points that may help you understand your energy journey throughout a day.

Day’s Largest Deficit refers to the lowest point of calorie deficit (negative energy balance) for that day. The aim is not to achieve the lowest number possible, instead this number should be used to help you understand how to optimise your fuelling and recovery strategies.

Your day’s largest deficit is often the result of:

• Energy expensive workouts. Workouts that burn a lot of energy are often characterised by being high intensity, long duration or both. Such workouts often form an important part of any periodised training and competition plan. It is important to prioritise recovery and refuelling after such events.
• Skipping meals. Consistently skipping meals may have negative impacts on health, performance and recovery and is not recommended.
• Under consuming energy at meals and/or snacks. Consistently under consuming meals may have negative impacts on health, performance and recovery and is not recommended.

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Day’s largest surplus refers to the highest point of calorie surplus (positive energy balance) for that day. The aim is not to achieve the highest number possible, instead this number should be used to help you understand how to optimise your fuelling and recovery strategies.

Your day’s largest surplus is often the result of:

• Consuming high energy meals and/or snacks to prepare for a workout. This behaviour is normal and is an important part of fuelling to perform.
• Over consuming energy at meals and/or snacks. Consistently over consuming meals may have negative impacts on health, performance and recovery and is not recommended.