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Cardio that the rest of the app can read
Recording a run is easy and half a dozen apps do it well. Making the run change what tomorrow looks like is the part that needs the rest of your data.
- Distance, pace, route
- A history of runs
- A social feed, sometimes
- Distance, pace, route
- Counted as training load
- Feeds your recovery score
- Meets your calorie target
- Changes tomorrow’s session
What it records
Runs, rides and walks with a GPS route, distance, pace, duration and heart rate where a watch is supplying it.
Anything your watch already recorded arrives through Apple Health or Health Connect, so a Garmin or Apple Watch run does not need recording twice.
What it does with it afterwards
The session becomes training load, which feeds strain and recovery, which changes what the programme asks for next.
Calories out from the session meet calories in from the day, in one place, without exporting anything.
And it sits in the same history as your lifting, so a heavy running week explains a stalled squat rather than looking like a mystery.
Questions
Is cardio tracking free?
Yes, uncapped on the free plan.
Do I need a watch?
No. The phone records the route and pace. A watch adds heart rate and lets you leave the phone behind.
Do runs from other apps count?
Anything written to Apple Health or Health Connect is read as training load.
The quiz is free, takes about four minutes and needs no card. It ends with your calorie target, your macros and a training week you can look at.
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