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TRIQ stands out from other triathlon apps in far-reaching ways:

1. Groundbreaking Triple Sport Combination: Our app dynamically calculates training and recovery needed for all three triathlon disciplines. Setting it apart even further, TRIQ fully incorporates swim training and its physical effects in a way that no other app has done.

2. Super Individualized Planning: TRIQ takes into account the athlete's daily availability regarding time AND possible sport(s) on that day, as well as many more individual parameters.

3. Multi-Dimensional Recovery Concept: Our app features a distinctive recovery system that measures recovery needed on multiple levels, avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach and providing a nuanced understanding of the body's needs regarding stress placed on joints, muscles and cardiovascular system.

4. Historical Training Data Integration: TRIQ factors in the athlete's training history when scheduling future sessions, ensuring a progressive and tailored approach to their development.

5. Made by Coaches: Unlike other apps that market via endorsements from well-known triathletes, TRIQ has been built and evaluated thoroughly by experienced coaches. Our commitment is to deliver quality, coach-approved training rather than marketing hype.

Simply set up our app by connecting your GARMIN® Connect account, entering your triathlon race goal(s)* and answer a few questions. From there, TRIQ automatically recommends training sessions for all three triathlon sports and strength & conditioning trainings to help prepare you for your race(s) and connects the dots between your training, your recovery and your daily availability to train. Once planned, the workout recommendations (except strength & conditioning) are pushed to the GARMIN® cloud and further to your training device if set up correctly.

‍While TRIQ provides a tailored plan to optimize your performance, you have the flexibility to adjust the proposed plan based on your specific preferences or needs. If an unfavorable adjustment is made, TRIQ will guide you to ensure your changes still align with optimal training principles and race preparation.

‍After your training sessions are recorded, your data automatically uploads to the GARMIN® cloud and gets pushed back to TRIQ. Based on executed and synced workout information TRIQ compares its recommendations with real executed data from the athlete and undergoes an assessment about the upcoming training week and makes adaptions if applicable. If you change planning parameters e.g availability, goal information, etc. plan adaptions will also take place.

*Currently, TRIQ covers 4 triathlon race distances – Sprint, Olympic, half IM (70.3), IM.

At TRIQ, our training planning system is designed to provide a personalized and adaptive experience, ensuring your journey to race day is as efficient and effective as possible. We plan your training on a weekly basis, tailoring the structure to the number of weeks remaining until your race and the specific type of race you’re preparing for, whether it’s a Sprint Distance or an Ironman.

Each week’s plan starts with a customized distribution of workout types. Workouts are carefully crafted to suit your needs, with their content - such as intervals and durations—developed through our tailored algorithms. The placement of these workouts takes into account important factors like your availability, fatigue, training targets, and personal constraints, ensuring your plan fits seamlessly into your life while optimizing your progress.

Our methodology is grounded in the expertise of our trusted partner, Sisu-Training, whose coaching guidelines during the development phase ensured, that every plan aligns with proven triathlon training principles.As you train, your plan dynamically adjusts to your progress. If you consistently meet your training targets and need to build volume, we’ll gradually ramp you up by increasing the duration and intensity of your workouts, measured using TRIQ’s internal stress score. It’s like unlocking a new level in a game, keeping your progress both steady and exciting. Conversely, if you’re unable to meet your targets, we monitor your performance and, when necessary, reduce your training volume to ensure it aligns with your current capacity.

For athletes reporting unbalanced sport splits—such as more focus on one discipline over another - we adapt the plan accordingly. Initially, your plan respects the splits you provide, but over time, we guide you toward an optimized balance that aligns with your race goals.

Finally, our system minimizes the overall stress of your training week. While some peak stress days may occur if your availability is limited, your plan will always represent the least stressful configuration possible and at the same time maximize your performance.

In summary, TRIQ’s training planning combines intelligent algorithms, expert coaching, and dynamic adaptation to help you progress toward your triathlon goals efficiently and effectively.

The fatigue & recovery logic employed by TRIQ models nature as close as possible by not differentiating in sport modalities but rather differentiating in the fatigue & strain those sports causing on the human body. Additionally, we distinguish the human body into its relevant physiological components, moving away from viewing it as a singular system.We distinctly recognize the cardiovascular system, the muscle and joint system. It enables us to cater to the diverse physiological regeneration characteristics of each component. For example, the cardiovascular system tends to regenerate faster than the orthopedic joint system in the human body.

This innovative approach allows us in a physiologically accurate manner to combine various sports (all acting on the same body - you only have 1 body). Based on this complex model, TRIQ has the potential to even incorporate complementary activities like rowing or cross-country skiing soon.

TRIQ’s training planner was created in collaboration with sisu-training, owned by Mario Schmidt-Wendling. His philosophy and 20 years of triathlon coaching and scientific insights have shaped numerous aspects of how TRIQ creates training recommendations. Thus, at TRIQ we emphasize realistic goal setting and prioritize enabling continuous training without injury, as this is the main differentiator when it comes to reaching personal endurance sports goals. Instead of pushing age-group triathletes into overreaching or making unrealistic promises, TRIQ guides athletes toward competition success while prioritizing their well-being. To prevent injuries, TRIQ and Mario have built a unique load and recovery model that adjusts to cardiovascular and orthopedic stress, creating a holistic recovery strategy.

TRIQ will not remain free forever. We plan to commercialize the app in Q2 2025, once the final major features were implemented. This ensures we deliver the complete experience our users deserve and one that justifies the subscription.

Mandatory:

- An iPhone or iPad with iOS 14 or later to display and use the TRIQ APP (we currently do not support Android but will soon)

- A GARMIN® sport devices (e.g smart watches)  and a GARMIN-Connect® account to record and sync training data


Optional (but highly recommended):

- Heart Rate Chest Strap: If available, TRIQ uses heart rate data from your training to better understand how your body meets and reacts to training demands. Where possible, your HRV data is analyzed to optimize your upcoming training and more accurately assess you aerobic and anaerobic thresholds. We recommend the state of the art chest strap H10 from Polar® as it’s very accurate and helps us build a better product for you.

- Power Meter: If available, TRIQ will display cycling workouts in watts and use power output from cycling sessions to accurately analyze the intensity of your bike workout. Without power data, our analyzation is forced to include multiple less accurate assumptions.

There is no exact timeline for this at the moment, but of course we plan to make TRIQ available on Android and add other wearables beyond GARMIN® as soon as possible. Our team is still small and the complexity of our app makes it challenging to add these features quickly. We hope you understand and remain patient with us. We are learning a lot from our Apple users currently and will keep you updated regarding news about Android. As soon as all features are active we are optimistic about adding Android quickly. We will keep you updated about this and new wearables via our newsletter.

At TRIQ, our first plan is to integrate additional sports recording partners such as POLAR® or SUUNTO® to enable training and recording of our recommended workouts. Integration of peripheral training tools (e.g. roller trainers, power meters, chest straps for heart rate monitoring, etc.) will primarily be facilitated through the training recording partners, as the data protocols (e.g. BLT, BLE, ANT, ANT+, WLAN, etc.) to communicate with those products  are ensured by them.

For example, customers with a smart-bike-trainer can directly control the same, using smartwatches from e.g. GARMIN®, POLAR®, etc. TRIQ will primarily focus on syncing recommended workouts with the aforementioned partners (but not limited), allowing customers to set up their training infrastructure as they see fit.

As explained in the Indoor Bike Blog, we must reiterate to all customers that activities not explicitly recorded with one of our certified data recording partners CANNOT be synchronized with us. This means that if an activity is recorded directly with the ZWIFT or WAHOO training platform, it cannot be synced with TRIQ even you can sync it with the certified partner (e.g. GARMIN®). Instead, users must set up their training infrastructure in such a way, that the activity is recorded directly with the certified partner.