EnduCloud

Ask an endurance athlete how training is going and you usually get two answers that never quite meet.

One is about the body: I slept badly, my legs are heavy, I think I'm coming down with something - or the opposite, I feel sharp and ready. The other is about the plan: today is intervals, this is a build week, the race is in nine weeks. Both answers are true. They're just almost never in the same room at the same time.

That gap is where a lot of training quietly goes wrong. The hard session done on broken sleep, because the calendar said so. The easy week that lands right when you finally felt strong. The plan, written once, that never learns anything about the person actually following it. Nothing dramatic - it just slowly bleeds away the adaptation you were chasing, and leaves you wondering why the numbers aren't moving.

Closing that gap used to be a purely human job, and a good coach did it by instinct - reading your face at the track, hearing something in your voice. That instinct is still the best coaching there is. What's changed is that the signals a coach used to guess at are now measurable every day: sleep, HRV, training load, readiness, and how a session was actually done versus how it was planned.

That's the whole idea behind EnduCloud - take those signals seriously and turn them back into the decision that matters most: what should I do today, given how I actually am. Not a plan handed down in January and obeyed until it breaks, but guidance that keeps noticing you.

And you don't need us to start, which is kind of the point. This week, before each session, ask honestly how you are - and let the answer change the session. The plan should serve the athlete, not the other way around.

A small addition worth a mention: EnduCloud now connects to Google Health.

That means we can pull heart rate, HRV, and sleep from whatever feeds it - your phone, a Fitbit, or a screenless 24/7 band like the Fitbit Air. The nice part is the low-friction entry point: you don't need a dedicated sport watch on your wrist around the clock to give us useful recovery signals. And in practice, you can even use it with out guided workouts to track your teh ex*****on of your planned workouts. A cheap, barely-there band you'll actually keep wearing works just as well - sometimes better.

It fits how we think about the whole product: closing the loop between knowing how you are and knowing what to do. The more honestly we can read your recovery, the better your plan can respond to it.

Rolling out in the pilot now.

This week we expanded our pilot with a much deeper strength training layer, and connected it cleanly to Garmin.

Until now, a prescribed strength session in EnduCloud was in many cases a free-form block, with the real prescription (exercises, sets, reps) sat in the notes. We rebuilt that. Strength workouts are now parsed into structured steps against a 123-exercise catalog, so the app knows exactly what you're doing, set by set.

Then we closed the loop with Garmin. Push a structured strength workout to your watch and it shows up natively with each exercise by name, with the on-wrist muscle-group animation. When you finish, the per-set weights and reps your watch recorded flow back in and update your strength profiles, including a capped Epley 1RM estimate. Prescribe on the platform, execute on the wrist, learn from what actually happened.

And inside the app's guided player, every exercise now carries its own demo card: a localized name, a how-to drawing and a video, so you're never guessing what "Single-Leg Calf Raise" means mid-session.

The reason we care: we're not a strength app, and we're not trying to be. Strength matters here because it makes endurance athletes more durable, more economical, and more injury-resistant. The differentiator is one AI coach balancing load across disciplines, so a lifting session doesn't quietly compromise tomorrow's run.

Also shipped this week: smarter plan adaptation driven by a single athlete-context layer, and tighter account security for coaches and clinicians (mandatory 2FA, branded email verification).

Build-in-public, one closed loop at a time.

The idea is simple: you shouldn't have to buy a watch to train well.

So we turned a phone + browser into an alternative training computer. Pair your Bluetooth gear straight from the browser and go – now rolling out in the EnduCloud pilot.

🚴 Indoor – pair a smart trainer (FTMS, or Tacx/Garmin FE-C) and ride your guided workouts with live power & cadence and automatic ERG resistance.
🏃 Outdoor – record a run or ride on GPS alone: route, pace, elevation, auto-pause, laps. No watch.
❤️ Heart rate from anywhere – any Bluetooth strap or a watch broadcasting HR. Optional, never required.

And the workout coaches you as you go: step-by-step voice guidance, live HR zones with spoken cues, and pace coaching to your prescribed target, including %-of-threshold, and even grade-adjusted, so a hill reads as effort instead of a false "too slow." Every session auto-saves as a first-class activity (STRSS™, power, HR, cadence), matched to your plan; if your watch also recorded it, the watch copy becomes primary without duplicate copies of the same activity.

This is not a sport watch or Zwift/TrainerRoad alternative. It is a lightweight, integrated way to execute your plan on a trainer or outdoors without buying more hardware or juggling apps. It's a basic integrated complimentary solution.

Bluetooth sensors need Chrome/Edge desktop or Android (soon also Android native); GPS recording also works on iPhone Safari.

No watch. No new hardware. Just open the app or browser and train.

New in the EnduCloud pilot - and we built it endurance-first.

Strength Training, CrossFit-style conditioning, and Hyrox are now part of EnduCloud.

One thing we want to be clear about: we're not a strength app, and we're not intending to be. These are here to support your running, riding and overall health: stronger, more durable, more resilient, not to turn EnduCloud into a gym tracker.

What you can try now:
✅ Strength - 68 exercises, 1RM tracking, and guided sessions that fit into your week so they complement your endurance training instead of fighting it.
✅ CrossFit-style workouts - real AMRAP, EMOM & For-Time formats plus classic benchmarks, as conditioning that builds work capacity.
✅ Hyrox - full 8-station race support and race-simulation sessions if you're chasing that finish line.

And our AI coach balancing all of it, so a strength session never quietly wrecks the legs you need for tomorrow's run.

We're rolling this out to pilot athletes and improving it with your feedback.

Open the app and give it a try, then tell us what you think.

Your FTP isn't what you think it is – at least not three hours into a race.

Most fitness metrics measure you when you're fresh. VO2max, FTP, lactate threshold are all tested at the start, when your glycogen store is full and your nervous system is rested. But endurance sports are decided late, when those same numbers look nothing like what your training data recorded.

This is called durability: the ability to maintain your performance ceiling after prolonged effort. And it varies enormously between athletes at identical peak fitness levels. Two cyclists with the same FTP or two runners with the same CV (Critical Velocity) can produce completely different results after hour three of a race, and standard fitness tests won't tell you why.

The physiology: glycogen depletion raises the metabolic cost of every watt you push. Cardiovascular drift elevates your heart rate at the same pace. And your central nervous system progressively suppresses high-intensity output as a protective mechanism. These don't happen sequentially, and compound each other.

At EnduCloud, we track each athlete's durability signature across their training history. We model how aerobic efficiency drifts under fatigue, at which durations the performance ceiling starts to fall, and at what intensities fuelling becomes critical. That information shapes both how we structure workouts and how we build competition fuelling strategy, because your nutrition plan shouldn't be generic; it should be calibrated to when you specifically start to fade.

Training smart means knowing not just how high your ceiling is – but how long it holds.

This week we shipped something we've been excited about for a while - guided workouts.

Open a workout on your phone and EnduCloud walks you through it step by step: exercise, sets, reps, rest - everything right there when you need it. No more switching apps or squinting at a PDF.

The part we're especially proud of: strength workouts let you reorder your sets on the fly. Bench press taken? Swap it to later. The app adapts to the gym, not the other way around.

And for those with sharp eyes - yes, there are two more features quietly visible in the background. Coming soon.

This week the healthcare provider module in EnduCloud reached pilot-ready status. Sports medicine doctors, physiotherapists, and clinical exercise physiologists now have a dedicated workspace to monitor their patients' training load, recovery readiness, and physiological trends – all flowing in automatically from the athlete's Garmin watch, no manual exports or shared spreadsheets. The clinical picture and the training picture are finally in the same place.

If you're planning to toe the line at Challenge Israman 2027 in Eilat - one of the toughest full-distance race on the planet, you need more than the standard generic training calendar. You need a plan built by someone who has coached athletes through races exactly like this one.

Today we're opening early access to the "36 Weeks to Ironman" program inside EnduCloud - the legendary periodization framework developed by Coach Mike Llerandi, now delivered as a living, adaptive plan on your phone.

Here's what you get:

- 36 weeks of structured progression - base, build, peak, taper. Every session has a purpose.
- No-tap sync to your Garmin - every workout lands on your watch, ready to execute.
- Instant post-session feedback - STRSS, ex*****on score, and load trends the moment you hit save.
- Adaptive guardrails - the plan reads your readiness, your fatigue, and the climb to Eilat, and adjusts.

The ideal solution for self coached athletes. No spreadsheets. No guesswork.
Just the plan, your watch, and 36 weeks between you and the Red Sea finish line.

👉 Start your journey: https://enducloud.com/israman2027

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36 weeks. 3.8 km in the water. 180 km on the bike. 42.2 km on the run. One proven plan to get you to the finish line.
Mike Llerandi's Ironman legendary training plan is now live on EnduCloud – fully structured, watch synchronized, and ready to start whenever you are.
The plan is built on heart-rate zones so it works with any watch or device (currently – as long as it is Garmin). If you train with power or GPS pace, you can convert any workout to match your setup.
From week 36 all the way to race morning, every session is planned, every week is periodised, and Endy is there the whole way to keep you on track.
Tap the link in bio to find it in our plan library.