Athlytic: AI Fitness Coach

September 24, 2024

Quick bug fix update: Added workouts from yesterday to the Battery widget and complication. Rewrote logic related to sync on the Apple Watch...hopefully this should remove any sync issues you are having. Fixed some widgets that were obscured if you were using a tinted home screen. 
Fixed an issue where some sleeping heart rates were not excluding heart rates during awake or nap periods. Fixed an issue where the Stress and Battery charts might look like you slept all day if you took a nap and there was an awake sample during the nap. Also from last update: New Features: (1) Design Refresh and new Dark Mode App Icon! (2) Added a new Recovery-Based Training chart under Recovery vs Exertion to better visualize the effect of your Training relative to your Recovery over the past 60 days! (3) Battery iPhone Widgets and Watch Complications (both weekly and daily) What is Battery? Think of your battery as your body's charge similar to your iPhone's battery charge. Battery is based on your HRV and unlike Recovery, it's not only measured during sleep but also throughout the day. Here is an example where you might use Recovery and Battery in tandem: you may go out with friends the night before and have a few drinks and wake up in the red. But you rest throughout the day before your workout in the evening. By that point even though your Recovery was red in the morning, checking your Battery before the workout may show that your Battery has almost fully charged since it likely has by now processed out last night's alcohol while resting, indicating that you can push it in your workout! You will now see 2 new iPhone Widgets and AW Complications for Daily (24hr) Battery as well as Weekly Battery. Battery is designed to give you a more frequent update of your training status. As opposed to Recovery which is designed to be a single value, once you wake up, Battery is a 24/7 measurement of your body I like to compare to your iPhone's battery level. Also to understand how it works, it works when you have a new HRV sample in Apple Health. So for example if you have not had a new HRV sample for a while, it will not update. This is a feature where having Afib History turned on for increased HRV would really make more useful. Also note if its been a while and you want to check in on your current Battery level, you can do a Breathe session in the Mindfulness App to trigger a new HRV reading and update your Battery level. Finally note that this is the first iteration of Battery is for the Widgets and Complications and will not be featured inside the app itself. (4) Support for Naps! **Note that this only applies to users who use Apple Watch for sleep tracking.** Since Apple doesn't have a Sleep Stage for a nap, it's impossible to differentiate sleep vs naps from 3rd party apps. Note also that an Apple Engineer told us "The system only tracks sleep periods that are one hour or more, so you won’t get a sleep analysis sample for a nap less than one hour." (5) Added the current day's step count to the rectangular watch Steps Complication/Widget. (6) Added Core Training as a workout type...can you tell I've been checking out SolidCore! =) Fixes: Macro percentages on pie charts now represent % in terms of 9 grams for fat and 4 grams for carbs and protein. Fixed an issue where some users Resting Heart Rate may not update in the morning. Fixed an issue in the Journal where if you tagged something it would show an error that it's already been tagged. Fixed an issue when you trim a workout's length, everything would trim correctly except the duration value in Apple Health. Fixed an issue where if your Training Goal was Injured or Resting you would still see the Target Exertion Zone on the Recovery vs Exertion chart. Fixed overlapping of labels on the Target Sleep vs Actual Sleep chart. Added sorting to heart rates to fix a bug that some RunGap users were experiencing.

September 18, 2024

Big Fall Update! Let's Go! New Features: (1) Design Refresh and new Dark Mode App Icon! (2) Added a new Recovery-Based Training chart under Recovery vs Exertion to better visualize the effect of your Training relative to your Recovery over the past 60 days! (3) Battery iPhone Widgets and Watch Complications (both weekly and daily) What is Battery? Think of your battery as your body's charge similar to your iPhone's battery charge. Battery is based on your HRV and unlike Recovery, it's not only measured during sleep but also throughout the day. Here is an example where you might use Recovery and Battery in tandem: you may go out with friends the night before and have a few drinks and wake up in the red. But you rest throughout the day before your workout in the evening. By that point even though your Recovery was red in the morning, checking your Battery before the workout may show that your Battery has almost fully charged since it likely has by now processed out last night's alcohol while resting, indicating that you can push it in your workout! You will now see 2 new iPhone Widgets and AW Complications for Daily (24hr) Battery as well as Weekly Battery. Battery is designed to give you a more frequent update of your training status. As opposed to Recovery which is designed to be a single value, once you wake up, Battery is a 24/7 measurement of your body I like to compare to your iPhone's battery level. Also to understand how it works, it works when you have a new HRV sample in Apple Health. So for example if you have not had a new HRV sample for a while, it will not update. This is a feature where having Afib History turned on for increased HRV would really make more useful. Also note if its been a while and you want to check in on your current Battery level, you can do a Breathe session in the Mindfulness App to trigger a new HRV reading and update your Battery level. (4) Support for Naps! **Note that this only applies to users who use Apple Watch for sleep tracking.** Since Apple doesn't have a Sleep Stage for a nap, it's impossible to differentiate sleep vs naps from 3rd party apps. Note also that an Apple Engineer told us "The system only tracks sleep periods that are one hour or more, so you won’t get a sleep analysis sample for a nap less than one hour." Here are all the updates related to taking a nap: -You Will See a new Nap Card above the Sleep Debt Card if Athlytic detects any naps in Apple Health -Naps will no longer cause the Sleep Stage and Sleep Consistency Charts to be broken as they will not show the nap periods. -Naps will now be displayed on the Stress and Battery Charts (including Widgets and Complications). -Naps WILL impact your Sleep Debt (i.e. taking a nap will make it go down) which will also have downstream effects on your Target Sleep and Target Bed Times. -Your Sleep Duration and Quality WILL NOT be affected as they are only related to overnight sleep. -Naps will be Auto Tagged! (5) Added the current day's step count to the rectangular watch Steps Complication/Widget. (6) Added Core Training as a workout type...can you tell I've been checking out SolidCore! =) Fixes: Macro percentages on pie charts now represent % in terms of 9 grams for fat and 4 grams for carbs and protein. Fixed an issue where some users Resting Heart Rate may not update in the morning. Fixed an issue in the Journal where if you tagged something it would show an error that it's already been tagged. Fixed an issue when you trim a workout's length, everything would trim correctly except the duration value in Apple Health. Fixed an issue where if your Training Goal was Injured or Resting you would still see the Target Exertion Zone on the Recovery vs Exertion chart. Fixed overlapping of labels on the Target Sleep vs Actual Sleep chart. Added sorting to heart rates to fix a bug that some RunGap users were experiencing.

August 13, 2024

New Feature: Steps Complications on the Watch! You can now see your current step count in circular or corner complications as well as a rectangular complication showing your weekly steps! AND this is a free feature, no subscription is required! The Weekly Steps chart is also available as an iPhone widget for your home screen! Fixed an issue where Lock Screen Recovery widget might not sync correctly. Fixed an issue where if you did more than one Mindfulness App Breathe session, your first Breathe HRV wouldn't be used. Thanks! Gary

August 10, 2024

Minor update: Refreshed the share UI. If you didn't know you can tap on the share icon on the top right of the home screen, or on the top right of an individual workout with various options of data to share on Instagram etc. Thanks to Jaclyn for working on this! Added an option to hide the disclaimer at the bottom of the home screen. Honestly not sure why this was needed, just don't scroll that far! =) but it's there for those who asked! Fixed an issue where tagging items today as they might happen, might not show in the Tagging notification pop on the following day. Fixed an issue where the Recovery vs. Exertion chart labels at the top of Trends might overlap. Fixed an issue where the Map Card might not show for an outdoor cycling workout. Fixed an issue where the Restorative Sleep Chart didn't align 100% to the Y-Axis due to rounding. Fixed an issue where your Sleep HRV Chart might be empty if you used the Mindfulness Breathe App for Recovery on a given day. Some other minor UI fixes. Thanks! Gary

August 1, 2024

Body Weight, Body Fat Percentage and Lean Body Mass Percentage Tracking! At the bottom of the Trends tab, you will now find a new card with Body Weight and Body Composition (Body Fat % and Lean Body Mass %). These features require this data being saved into Apple Health. We recommend getting a smart scale like Withings that automatically writes its data to Apple Health after you weigh yourself. If you don't have access to a smart scale, you can manually enter your body weight into the Apple Health App. The Energy Charts now also have a toggle (if body weight data is in Apple Health) to overlay your body weight so you can see correlations of body weight to energy burned and consumed. New Journal Tags! Back Pain, City Noise, Competition, Pain (general), Hormone Therapy, Joint Pain, On Call, Soreness and TENS Device Added COROS and Luna Ring as a sleep trackers you can select in the More tab. Fixed an issue in the last update that may have prevented your RHR from updating without force quitting and reopening the app. Fixed a crash that might occur on Recovery and Exertion Watch Widgets/Complications and cause them to be out of sync with the iPhone and watch app. Fixed a crash that might occur in the Daily HRV Widget if you did not have any HRV yet in the day. Some other minor improvements. Thanks! Gary

July 19, 2024

New Feature Alert AGAIN! You will now find the Energy section completely redesigned including all new Macro charts! The Home Dashboard for Energy as well as at the top of the Energy view now also mimics the Apple Watch App: If no calories have been logged today the ring will show your Energy Burned today, however once you log any calories into Apple Health, the UI will flip to show your Net Energy for the day. For users who log a LOT of workouts the Training Load chart in Trends should include them all now. Also some bug fixes from the big 5.1 update: Fixed an issue where Trends Heart Rate Recovery in the last update didn't account for HRs after the workout. Fixed an issue on Recovery vs. Exertion chart where the labels might overlap. Fixed some sync issues that occured on the watch and iPhone widgets in the last update. A few other minor bug fixes and improvements. Also from 5.1: Major Updates: Translations! For much of the coaching in Athlytic, if your iPhone is set to a language other than English, you will now see a translation button near the coaching that will allow you to translate it in 20 different languages. If you prefer not to see these, you can also turn off the feature in the More tab under Units and Languages. Look for more translation features coming soon in iOS 18, such as the informational cards. A rewrite to Athlytic's core data loading, you should see MUCH improved load times in this update! A setting to use Root Mean Square of Successive Differences (RMSSD) method to calculate your HRV (you will find this in the More tab under Recovery Preferences). I only recommend using the RMSSD method to measure your HRV if you personally experience very high spikes in your HRV measured with SDNN (Apple's and Athlytic's default method for HRV) and are willing to sacrifice additional load time when the app is refreshed. Please review ALL notes outlined below prior to turning on RMSSD: (1) This will increase load time as an additional query is necessary to obtain the beat to beat data in order to calculate RMSSD. Because of this, I recommend staying with SDNN as I believe it is good enough for the average user and will load as fast as possible. (2) If you elect to use the RMSSD method, I recommend going to the More tab under ClearCaches/Resync, and tapping the button to clear your Recovery Cache (and resync your Apple Health Data) otherwise Athlytic will pull previous days' recoveries from your prior SDNN data. (3) It will take some time for your Widgets, Complications, and Apple Watch app to sync with the iPhone app given you're changing not just your most recent HRV but also all of your baseline data. So please give it a few hours or so for it all to sync. Until then your Recovery on your Widgets/Complications and Watch App may still be using SDNN. (4) If you are not seeing HRV data after toggling on RMMSD, please check in Apple Health that Athlytic's permission to read your beat-to-beat measurement is toggled on. Go to Apple Health -> Sharing -> Apps and Services -> Athlytic -> Toggle on beat-to-beat measurement. Other Updates: Many of the charts in the app, like Recovery vs. Exertion, received a design refresh. Added numbers to the top of the 7 day Stress chart. Fixed a rounding error related to the text explaining Sleep Debt. Added a description under Exertion on the watch app explaining how Exertion is calculated (to match the description at the bottom of Exertion on the iPhone if you tap on Foundations: Exertion). This should help debugging any sync issues between devices. Some other minor updates and optimizations. Thanks! Gary

July 14, 2024

Major Updates: Translations! For much of the coaching in Athlytic, if your iPhone is set to a language other than English, you will now see a translation button near the coaching that will allow you to translate it in 20 different languages. If you prefer not to see these, you can also turn off the feature in the More tab under Units and Languages. A rewrite to Athlytic's core data loading, you should see MUCH improved load times in this update! A setting to use Root Mean Square of Successive Differences (RMSSD) method to calculate your HRV (you will find this in the More tab under Recovery Preferences). I only recommend using the RMSSD method to measure your HRV if you personally experience very high spikes in your HRV measured with SDNN (Apple's and Athlytic's default method for HRV) and are willing to sacrifice additional load time when the app is refreshed. Please review ALL notes outlined below prior to turning on RMSSD: (1) This will increase load time as an additional query is necessary to obtain the beat to beat data in order to calculate RMSSD. Because of this, I recommend staying with SDNN as I believe it is good enough for the average user and will load as fast as possible. (2) If you elect to use the RMSSD method, I recommend going to the More tab under ClearCaches/Resync, and tapping the button to clear your Recovery Cache (and resync your Apple Health Data) otherwise Athlytic will pull previous days' recoveries from your prior SDNN data. (3) It will take some time for your Widgets, Complications, and Apple Watch app to sync with the iPhone app given you're changing not just your most recent HRV but also all of your baseline data. So please give it a few hours or so for it all to sync. Until then your Recovery on your Widgets/Complications and Watch App may still be using SDNN. (4) If you are not seeing HRV data after toggling on RMMSD, please check in Apple Health that Athlytic's permission to read your beat-to-beat measurement is toggled on. Go to Apple Health -> Sharing -> Apps and Services -> Athlytic -> Toggle on beat-to-beat measurement. Other Updates: Many of the charts in the app, like Recovery vs. Exertion, received a design refresh. Added numbers to the top of the 7 day Stress chart. Fixed a rounding error related to the text explaining Sleep Debt. Added a description under Exertion on the watch app explaining how Exertion is calculated (to match the description at the bottom of Exertion on the iPhone if you tap on Foundations: Exertion). This should help debugging any sync issues between devices. Some other minor updates and optimizations. Thanks! Gary

May 27, 2024

Added buttons in the More tab under Clear Caches/Resync Data to clear Recovery and Exertion caches. Added back Weekly Average comparisons to Recovery and Exertion below the charts. Changed the dates displayed on the Training Adaptation HRV and RHR charts, previously the date used was the start date of the baseline period. I've changed it to the end date now as some users were confused with the dates. Some other minor bug fixes and optimizations. Thanks! Gary

May 21, 2024

Athlytic will now Auto Tag Low and High Stress (daily average) in the Journal, as well as if you had 10% of the day or more in High Stress. Like all auto tags, Stress auto tags can also be turned off in the More tab under Journal Preferences. Added an all new Steps card at the bottom of Trends! This has been asked for many times, and while we don't use steps in any of Athlytic's calculations or metrics, I do agree it would be nice to have within Athlytic and not having to use another app to see it. Fixed some sync issues on Apple Watch for if iCloud is unavailable. Fixed an issue on new Sleep Performance charts to not chart days you didn't wear your watch or had 0 sleep. Fixed an issue with the Trend Legend on Sleep Performance and Sleep Quality charts being misaligned. Fixed a crash that might occur if you are missing sleep data and tap on the sleep tab. Added some logic to remove duplicates in the Cardio Fitness chart if you have more than 1 of the same Cardio Fitness Sample. Some other minor bug fixes and optimizations. Also from 5.0: HUGE SLEEP AND JOURNAL UPDATE! SLEEP UPDATES: Now in addition to a Sleep Performance score (your sleep duration vs Target sleep need), Athlytic will now calculate your Sleep Quality! You can tap on your Sleep Duration to see your Target Sleep Performance as well as charts of your Performance history. You can also tap on Sleep Quality to see a chart of your Quality history as well as many other metrics related to Sleep Quality. There is also a new iPhone Widget and Apple Watch Widgets with the new Sleep Quality and Performance rings. Sleep Performance and Quality can now be viewed inside the watch app as well. You can also see your Sleep Stages and Sleep Performance and Quality for a previous day when you tap on a day on the calendar. Redesigned the Sleep Time Consistency chart with sleep start and end times per day as well as a toggle to see the past 30 and 60 days' Sleep Time Consistency. New information cards have also been added throughout the app to explain many features in Athlytic, including how Sleep Quality is calculated. JOURNAL (FORMERLY TAGGING) UPDATES: Tagging has been given its own space on the main Tab Bar and has been renamed Journal. (The Calendar can now be accessed on the top right of the home screen.) New user-entered Tags: Child Awake, Physical Therapy, Restless Legs, Anti-Inflammatory Meds, Follicular, and Luteal The Journal Tab has been redesigned. You'll now see the % impact of your Tags on Recovery and Sleep. Many more changes here! Auto Tagging! In the Journal, Athlytic will auto-tag* certain Journal items like Sleep Quality, menstruation, sun exposure, workout intensities, etc. *These will be Tagged (1) if you authorize Athlytic to read them and (2) you have the data in Apple Health. If you do not want one or more of these tagged automatically, you turn them off in Journal Preferences in More Tab, which also includes a delete all tags button (Warning! This will delete all your Tags and you cannot get them back! OTHER UPDATES: Recovery Exertion and Sleep charts have been added to their respective areas on the Today Tab instead of Trends. Training Adaptation can now be found at the bottom of Trends and has a design refresh as well. There is also a matching informational card for it to learn more about it. Redesigned the charts and UI in the Health section. If your Wrist Temp is above normal and you are menstruating, Athlytic will point out that this is normal and no cause for alarm. FIXES: -Fixed a bug related to using Kilojoules on the Monthly Summary Calorie Count There are many other improvements, design refreshes, and bug fixes too many to mention. It's been months of work, but we're so excited for you to see what we've been working on! Thanks! Gary

May 15, 2024

HUGE SLEEP AND JOURNAL UPDATE! SLEEP UPDATES: Now in addition to a Sleep Performance score (your sleep duration vs Target sleep need), Athlytic will now calculate your Sleep Quality! You can tap on your Sleep Duration to see your Target Sleep Performance as well as charts of your Performance history. You can also tap on Sleep Quality to see a chart of your Quality history as well as many other metrics related to Sleep Quality. There is also a new iPhone Widget and Apple Watch Widgets with the new Sleep Quality and Performance rings. Sleep Performance and Quality can now be viewed inside the watch app as well. You can also see your Sleep Stages and Sleep Performance and Quality for a previous day when you tap on a day on the calendar. Redesigned the Sleep Time Consistency chart with sleep start and end times per day as well as a toggle to see the past 30 and 60 days' Sleep Time Consistency. New information cards have also been added throughout the app to explain many features in Athlytic, including how Sleep Quality is calculated. JOURNAL (FORMERLY TAGGING) UPDATES: Tagging has been given its own space on the main Tab Bar and has been renamed Journal. (The Calendar can now be accessed on the top right of the home screen.) New user-entered Tags: Child Awake, Physical Therapy, Restless Legs, Anti-Inflammatory Meds, Follicular, and Luteal The Journal Tab has been redesigned. You'll now see the % impact of your Tags on Recovery and Sleep. Many more changes here! Auto Tagging! In the Journal, Athlytic will auto-tag* certain Journal items like Sleep Quality, menstruation, sun exposure, workout intensities, etc. *These will be Tagged (1) if you authorize Athlytic to read them and (2) you have the data in Apple Health. If you do not want one or more of these tagged automatically, you turn them off in Journal Preferences in More Tab, which also includes a delete all tags button (Warning! This will delete all your Tags and you cannot get them back! OTHER UPDATES: Recovery Exertion and Sleep charts have been added to their respective areas on the Today Tab instead of Trends. Training Adaptation can now be found at the bottom of Trends and has a design refresh as well. There is also a matching informational card for it to learn more about it. Redesigned the charts and UI in the Health section. If your Wrist Temp is above normal and you are menstruating, Athlytic will point out that this is normal and no cause for alarm. FIXES: -Fixed a bug related to using Kilojoules on the Monthly Summary Calorie Count There are many other improvements, design refreshes, and bug fixes too many to mention. It's been months of work, but we're so excited for you to see what we've been working on! Thanks! Gary