The Outsiders Fitness App Launches Apple Watch Integration with Training Readiness Focus
The Outsiders, a fitness application designed for performance-driven athletes, today released a dedicated Apple Watch app focused on providing users with a comprehensive Training Readiness score.
The new app delivers key metrics directly to users’ wrists, including a 7-day Training Load Ratio (TLR), 7-night Sleeping Heart Rate, Heart Rate Variability (HRV), Wrist Temperature, Respiratory Rate, Blood Oxygen levels, and recent sleep data. This data is combined to calculate a Training Readiness index, based on the ratio of acute to chronic training load, combined with body metrics and sleep quality. Understanding training readiness is crucial for athletes aiming to optimize performance and avoid overtraining.
“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,” said Katarina Lotrič, co-founder and CEO of Gentler Stories. “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.” The update follows multiple user interface and experience enhancements since the initial launch of The Outsiders.
Gentler Stories recommends wearing the Apple Watch overnight and during training sessions to maximize the accuracy and benefit of the data collected. The app is available now as a free download with in-app purchases, and is compatible with the latest Apple Watch models.
The company plans to release a dedicated complication for the Readiness index in a future update.
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)
- 7-night Wrist Temperature
- 7-night Respiratory Rate
- 7-night Blood Oxygen
- Recent nights’ Sleep
Today’s update marks the full launch of The Outsiders, following multiple UI and UX enhancements introduced since its initial release.
The new Apple Watch app is as beautifully animated as The Outsiders users have grown accustomed to expecting, and Gentler Stories suggests wearing your Apple Watch overnight in addition to recording your training sessions with it, in order to get the best results.
The Outsiders is available as a free download with In-App Purchases, and you can check it out by yourself following this link.
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