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10 July 2026
Getting started: your first week with Strathlon
New here? A quick tour of the app's tabs and how your first week fits together.
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10 July 2026
Reading your charts: weight, deficit and progress photos
Daily, weekly or monthly, your charts always open on your latest data. How to read the trend, the deficit, the away shading, and your progress photos.
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10 July 2026
Your schedule and multi-sport setup
Pick your sports, set a primary, and Strathlon shapes your workout plan around them†, showing only what's in season this week. Plus sessions, timers and away mode.
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10 July 2026
Snap your lifting weights, and ask the coach about predicted vs actual weight
Point your camera at a dumbbell, plate, machine or logbook to fill in your working weight mid-set. When your predicted and actual weight drift apart, ask your Coach to explain the gap.
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10 July 2026
Training and eating with your cycle
Four separate switches let your notes, your calorie target, your training suggestions and your Coach take your cycle into account: you use only the ones you want.
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2 October 2026
Train with your cycle
What Strathlon does through your month: notes on your Plan, Nutrition and Progress tabs, an optional pre-period calorie ease, and the two things your AI coach can be told.
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2 October 2026
A plan that changes with you
How Strathlon supports pregnancy, breastfeeding, hormone therapy, contraception and changing cycles, and where it hands over to national guidance and your midwife or GP.
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10 July 2026
Back up and sync with iCloud
Private iCloud backup keeps your training and Tracker history in sync across your devices*, while your cycle data is left out of it entirely.
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5 July 2026
Fitness myths, debunked: what the science actually says
Fifteen myths, calmly taken apart: spot reduction, the fat-burning zone, cheat meals, "toning", detoxes, plus three we ran into building Strathlon, including the resting heart-rate table everyone quotes and nobody can source.
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25 June 2026
One coach for training and nutrition
Most people run a workout app, a separate calorie counter and a notes file to tie it all together. Here's why one coach that sees both your training and your food makes better calls.
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25 June 2026
Calorie tracking, without the chore
Most people quit food logging because it became daily admin. Here's how snapping a photo or describing a meal in a sentence (and Strathlon learning your regulars) makes tracking something you'll actually keep up.
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25 June 2026
Your workout plan should know your sport
Hand a runner, a powerlifter and a weekend five-a-side player the same 3×10 and you've helped none of them. Here's how Strathlon shapes your gym work around the sport you actually play.†
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20 June 2026
Getting the most out of your AI Coach
Your coach already knows your workout plan, today's macros and the exact exercises you're due to do. Here's what to ask, how to snap a meal, and how to ask the coach about predicted vs actual weight.
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12 June 2026
Your Apple Watch + Strathlon: live heart rate, hands-free
The one-time setup, why you shouldn't also start Apple's own Workout app, and a full gym session driven from your wrist.
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4 June 2026
When your workout plan ends or you hit your goal
Time-based completion, the choices Strathlon offers you, and the goal-reached celebration, including what happens if you're a couple of kilos short at the finish line.
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