Getting Started Choosing Apps – Stryd PowerCenter / Mobile

Stryd PowerCenter / Mobile

The Stryd ecosystem is an end-to-end solution (from Planning through Reviewing) that works with running power. It provides most of the important power metrics, as well as access to coaches and training plans.

Stryd PowerCenter is a web-based app at the heart of the Stryd ecosystem. Stryd Mobile (for Android or IOS) is a mobile phone app that provides much of the same information as Stryd PowerCenter, plus a few additional features.

Stryd PowerCenter and Mobile are free to use. Some features require membership (subscription).

Functionality

Here’s the row from the Choosing Apps page.

Below the row are sections for each of the workout steps, with more information about how this choice implements specific functionality.

App

1.P

1.C

2.D

3.P

3.G

4.U

5.W

5.M

5.E

6.C

Stryd PowerCenter / Mobile

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F

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F

F

F$

F$

F

Planning

1.P – Plans. Are there power-based training plans for various event distances/experience levels? Or can you connect to a coach who can provide planned workouts?

  • The Stryd Mobile app offers free training plans for common event distances, as well as plans to build, maintain and test your fitness. Stryd membership ($) adds a library of additional workouts. All plans and workouts are power-based.
  • You can find Stryd-certified coaches. Unfortunately, your coach cannot add workouts to your calendar.

1.C – Customisation. Can you adjust training plans, create your own plans, and build your own workouts?

  • Stryd membership ($) enables you to adjust training plans, create your own plans, and build your own workouts.

Download

2.D – Download. Can planned workouts be downloaded for execution?

  • You can download workouts planned in the Stryd ecosystem to Garmin, Apple, and COROS watches, and to the Stryd Workout app on a mobile phone. Other watch brands need to use watch companion apps or third-party apps to create and download planned workouts.

Execution

3.P – Power. Can you choose various ways to display power while running, at a minimum: real-time power; lap power? Can you display power in Watts/kg or as a percentage or threshold power?

3.G – Guided workouts. Can the app guide you through a structured workout – a workout with multiple steps, each with their own target and duration?

Upload

4.U – Upload. Can completed workouts be uploaded for reviewing?

  • Stryd PowerCenter accepts completed runs (via manufacturer websites) from all watch brands except Apple Watch. The Stryd Workout app uploads completed runs from Apple Watches into Stryd PowerCenter.
  • Note that Stryd PowerCenter only accepts runs the include Stryd power metrics – it doesn’t accept rides, swims or any other sport, and it doesn’t accept runs that record wrist-based power.

Reviewing

5.W – Workout review. Can you review workout summary data and detailed (per second) workout data? Can you review workout compliance (actual vs. target)?

  • Both PowerCenter and Stryd mobile provide second-by-second review of uploaded runs.
  • If you used the Stryd ecosystem to plan the workout, the apps show actual power vs. target.

5.M – Metrics. Does the app provide power metrics, at a minimum: threshold power; training load balance; a power-duration curve? Does it also provide ramp rate or running effectiveness?

  • Both apps can calculate and display your threshold power, either calculated from maximum efforts over the last 90 days of completed runs (called ‘Auto-CP’), or entered manually in the mobile app.
  • With membership ($), both apps can display Training Load Balance, which Stryd calls your ‘Running Stress Balance’.
  • Both apps can chart and display your PDC, based on maximum efforts over the last 90 days of completed runs.
  • Neither app provides a weekly Ramp Rate, but you can manually track this using the ’42-day average’ found in Stryd Mobile.
  • Neither app shows your Running Effectiveness, although you can manually calculate this using the detailed workout review pages.
  • Neither app offers custom metrics.

5.E – Events. Does the app offer a way to calculate power targets for upcoming events and races?

  • Stryd PowerCenter’s Race Calculator ($) helps determine optimal power targets based on course profile, weather, and runner data.
  • Stryd Mobile’s Event Planner supports goal setting and tracking process as you approach your events.

Coaching

6.C – Coaching. Is it possible to coach athletes using the app, at a minimum: multiple athletes, reviewing results/metrics? Can you also provide planned workouts, or communicate with your athletes?

  • Runners can add a coach (paying the coach directly, rather than via Stryd), and once added, coaches can see completed workouts and metrics.
  • There is no ability to create or manage training plans or workouts for coached runners.
  • There is no ability to communicate with coached runners through the Stryd platform.

Filling the gaps

Execution

For a workout app, you should use:

Reviewing

For ramp rate, you could consider:

For running effectiveness, you could consider:

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