Syncing Athletica with Intervals.icu was discussed briefly in another thread a short time ago. I wanted to re-raise that request for consideration and note that another AI training platform, AI Endurance, is partnering with Intervals to accomplish this – see this thread on the Intervals.icu forum for more information. Maybe there are some lessons learned from that process which would make Athletica’s connection to it a bit less onerous.
Any chance you could do this? Lots of benefits to it, IMO. Many thanks for considering it.
I’m already sharing my Athletica calendar to my intervals.icu calendar. The real pain is having to manually create my Athletica workouts from the Athletica calendar posts.
Thanks @Firestop@BrentK
I also like intervals quite a lot.
I’d just be curious to know what you value the most about the intervals platform, e.g.: usability and interface, additional info in the calendar (e.g. weather, etc), or particular calculations/integrations and features?
Integrations are definitely an interesting topic—they can add great value but also come with the responsibility of ensuring seamless syncing (push/pull) without any risk of data loss or inconsistency. But this particular one is something we always keep in mind.
For me, it is one-stop deposit of my various fitness activities ….it seems unlimited in the various activities it will accept, the individual fitness parameters you can set for each, the highly customizable graphic representation of the activity results, the easy-to-use workout designer….well, I could go on. David has created and supports are very smart platform that does all of this very well.
Athletica has developed an AI coaching program that serves the major tri-athlete event categories, and is the first I’ve found to expanded into rowing …which is why I’m here. A month-plus into it, I have already noticed a difference in my adaptation from closely following my training plans. Following the generic training plans were not working for me. For the first time I’m able to truely row 80/20 because the workouts are specifically designed for me…to do it……and, I excited to see the results.
I see a great synergy between the two platforms that do what they are targeted/designed to do very well. There is some overlap in features, but I see it as minor, and necessary.
Concur…intervals.icu is the one place I go to visualize any aspect of my training I wish, as it’s the only platform that has the ability to do so.
Generally speaking, there’s a clear focus on data visualization and flexibility/modularity thereof. I’d argue it’s the most adaptable, information-dense platform I’ve seen in any medium.
Key distinctions:
the clarity and breadth-of-detail in the calendar view
what I would consider unparalleled view of each training session (e.g., 1 page with most all data I want to see, including: mostly successful auto-interval identification; power and HR level + zone over time)
superb fitness/form view over time
sport-specific power detail pages, with self- and peer-relative metrics
minutiae that I may visit only a few times per year (e.g., charts of power, vs cadence, power, vs gradient).
Of course, for most folks I’d imagine its way too much detail. Lots of…“wait…where do I find that bit again?” But it’s my central sport data hub.
That said…I visit the athletica platform and this forum way more often!
Similarly, I used to use TP for that but moved to Intervals.icu. More for a historical center of truth, as it has all my various activities from the last few years regardless of training platform or tool (ski trackers, golf apps, Garmin, apple, zwift, Athletica, etc.) to have a consistent record.
Plus everything you said which brought me from TP, not much I can add there.
Totally agree about intervals.icu being the best out there for all those reasons you listed. I do frequently compare multiple sites and my Garmin data is fed to 11 different platforms, but no one comes anywhere close to intervals. Totally crazy that it’s FREE with a good community and constant improvement culture. I ended up subscribing just to applaud and thank the developer.
Would love for Athletica to sync workouts + calendar with Intervals.icu, it would open the possibilities of the devices that athletica would be compatible to.
@billm I supported your feature request in the intervals forum. Being able to use all the connected services and devices would really benefit my use of the athletica training plans.
I’m already sharing my Athletica training calendar so my plan shows in my interval.icu calendar, but having to manually create and change my Athletica workouts in intervals (almost daily) is a real pain.
Thank you😎. I think I was able to link to my intervals.icu account, though I was not asked to provide my intervals username & password authorizing the connection on intervals.icu as I would have expected.
After requesting the connection, I initially received a red box error message from Athletica indicating a link couldn’t be made, but I am seeing a green box connection note for intervals when I check my connections setting. I cross checked my intervals.icu account, it to shows I’m connected to Athletica. My Althetica training plan has been updating for over 30 min., so something appears to be processing.
On the intervals.icu side, I haven’t seen any changes yet. I had already manually entered my Athletica training plan workouts 8-weeks forward into my intervals.icu training calendar, so it will be interesting to see how the training calendar sync works as it wasn’t clear which platform will have precedence. My HRV and other wellness data from my WHOOP is also in my intervals.icu calendar, so it will also be interesting to see how this will be brought into Athletica and impact my training plan.
Again, thanks for the opportunity to test this out!
Linking worked fine and I can see some (older than using my Garmin for tracking) sleep data coming in. But nothing else. Especially no future workouts on the Intervals side… Even after finding the additional checkmark in Settings.
I wondered: I have HRV data from HRV4Training in Intervals und HRV data from Garmin in Athletica. Will these datasets be mixed? Will the Garmin data be preferred?
The connection process worked as expected. I did need to click the “configure” button for the Intervals connection and check the box next to “Automatically sync workouts to Intervals calendar.” It might be best to make that the default, or at least let folks know about the need to check that box (which I assume is necessary for full functionality).
So far, after about 10 minutes, I am not seeing any syncing in either direction, but will keep an eye on it and report back.
Many thanks to the Athletica team for doing this and being so responsive to user requests.
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hopefully we can have something soon