Good morning, athletes! After a period of “study,” I’m here to write a few lines to share my personal take on the App.
I also use other platforms (STAMINA, TRAINER ROAD, and Intervals.icu-based apps like INTERVALSCOACH, COACH WATTS, MONTIS…) I can assure you that I always return to ATHLETICA happier and more content for several reasons:
SCIENTIFIC-BASED workouts. The various apps are VOLATILE; they rely too much on HRV data and physiological sensations, often modifying a workout rather than following a plan and sticking to it chronically. With ATHLETICA, you can tailor your plan to your needs with the confidence of completing the KEY SESSIONS weekly without leaving “pieces on the road,” according to a Polarized/Linear Distribution, which according to current guidelines is the best available!
A diverse community, including highly skilled athletes, coaches, and physiologists ready to answer any questions you may have.
Workout Wizard, which increasingly allows you to cover all your needs.
The very low cost compared to the competition .
In the future, I believe we’ll be able to modify any workout using AI COACH, thus expanding its current usage limit.
Happy that you find all these positive features but I still have a lot of issues:
I never find a useful alternative using workout wizard. Sometimes I even haven’t workout wizard for some session. Other times it propose me something impossible like 6 hours of swim or 4 hours of running. I think I used WW a couple of time in 2 years.
The planning still remains something which I have a lot of trouble with. I can train just 10 to 13 hours per week and the plan it give is something I need to work on every week. Hard sessions near one to other. No stimulation logic. I pass from 1h10’ aerobic run one week to 2h30’ the week after. Strenght session followed in same day or the immediately after one by hiit session.
And I find difficult in seeing where all the deep science that for sure athletica has, goes inside my sessions, honestly.
I don’t use other apps by at least 2 years so I am a little bit out from other app performance but I am not so totally happy of my athletica.
It’s unfortunate to hear this. I think it has some bugs that need to be ironed out because I honestly can’t find certain macro errors anymore (they used to be there…). Now it seems very balanced… let’s go, Monday and Friday are recovery days, maximum flat run, full Ironman of 1 hour and 39 minutes, combined with a 4-hour bike ride.
This got me to a 10-hour IM in Cervia without any problems. I only extended a couple of runs to 2.5 hours.
I’ve tested Intervalscoach, Coach Watts, and other apps that interface with intervals.icu and Claude. They have many interesting features, but they’re still immature, like periodization for triathlons…
Thanks for voicing this. We are aware of issues similar to what you describe happening to certain accounts and we apologize for this. We have a new logic being developed as we speak that we hope will do away with these issues once and for all. Thanks for sticking with us while we iron these out.