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* 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 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.

What sets TRIQ apart from most other apps is its fully automated training planning. Our system generates swim, bike, and run workouts individually from scratch and then integrates them cohesively throughout the week, considering various factors such as availability but above all, the planer looks that we have a balanced fatigue level. If any aspect changes, the system automatically evaluates if a more optimal plan exists and offers it to the athlete, ensuring they always train with the best option available.

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 engine 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.

For a limited time, TRIQ is currently free – even though we believe it already provides a better service than other apps. TRIQ combines smart training recommendations for three sports and intelligent health features in a groundbreaking new way, so we will have to charge for it accordingly, as providing this service is highly complex. We believe TRIQ is truly a new dimension of sports apps. However, it’s part of our philosophy to fully integrate certain additional key features before turning our service into a paid one.

We are planning to commercialize TRIQ in Q1 of 2025, as we aim to finalize the implementation of the last major features we believe are necessary to deliver the complete experience users deserve and to justify charging for the service.

While we do that, first movers can benefit from using TRIQ free of charge. Happy training to all of you who joined us so early.

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.