The Gentler Stories-made app for cyclists, runners, and other performance-driven athletes just got even better with a beautiful Apple Watch app. Here are the details.
Training Readiness readily available
A couple of months ago, I wrote about the launch of The Outsiders, a beautiful new exercise app from the tireless team that also develops Gentler Streak.
At the time, they said that an Apple Watch app would be released later this year. Now, it is available, and it is all about Training Readiness, which, as Gentler Stories explains, “is based on the ratio of acute to chronic training load, combined with body metrics and sleep quality.”
Here is Gentler Stories co-founder and CEO Katarina Lotrič, on today’s update:
“The Apple Watch app marks the next step in our development, the point where the product feels mature enough to stand next to other fitness apps. (…) We built this app for athletes who don’t need motivation; what they need is meaningful insight into how training-ready they are. We’ve got the OG outsiders in the office, and seeing their wish list echoed by early adopters is a good sign we’re moving in the right direction.”
In addition to the Readiness index, which will soon get its own complication, the update also brings the following metrics and useful insights to the Apple Watch:
7-day Training Load Ratio (TLR)
7-night Sleeping Heart Rate
7-night Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
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