Shape vs Stryde Endurance

Shape is a training planner for endurance athletes. Plan workouts, see your load, sync to your watch. Connect Claude or ChatGPT to your training through MCP. BUILT FOR ENDURANCE ATHLETES Running. Cycling. Swimming. Whatever gets you outside and moving — Shape helps you plan it, track the load, and stay consistent without burning out. WHAT SHAPE DOES → AI creates structured workouts from simple prompts → MCP server lets Claude and ChatGPT read your training and edit your plan → Training load chart shows impact before you overtrain → Readiness each morning from your sleep, resting heart rate and HRV → Fitness, fatigue and form projected forward from your plan → Syncs structured workouts to Apple Watch & Garmin Devices → Pulls completed activities from Garmin, Wahoo & Apple Health → Syncs your training plan to Google Calendar & Apple Calendar → Works on iPhone and web, synced PLAN WITH NATURAL LANGUAGE Type what you want: "easy 45-min recovery run" or "5x1km intervals at threshold with 2min rest" — Shape creates a structured workout ready to sync. No menus, no endless clicks. Just describe the workout and it's done. CONNECT IT TO CLAUDE OR CHATGPT Shape runs an MCP server, so Claude and ChatGPT can read your training and edit your plan. Ask how your week is shaping up, have it build the next block, move a session when work gets in the way. Any MCP client works. There is a full API behind it, and your data stays yours. START WITH TODAY Open Shape and the Today tab tells you what the day asks of you. Readiness scores your morning against your own baseline, from sleep, resting heart rate and HRV, and shows you which of those moved rather than just a number. Training Load Balance says whether you are doing too much or too little, and it looks ahead: your planned workouts extend the line, so you see a spike coming before you train it. Fitness, fatigue and form (CTL, ATL and TSB) project forward from your plan, so you know what shape you will be in on race day. Underneath sits the rest of your morning: sleep, VO2 max, weight, steps and every other daily metric from Apple Health and Garmin. SEE YOUR LOAD There's a chart at the top of your calendar showing training load over time. You'll see the impact of planned workouts before you do them. Spot when you're planning too much and adjust before it's too late. Tap the chart to see more details and tap a bar to see the weekly load. SYNC TO YOUR WATCH Workouts sync to Apple Watch and Garmin. Follow structured intervals step-by-step on your wrist. When you're done, completed workouts sync back and update your load automatically. SYNC TO YOUR CALENDAR Your training plan syncs to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, and more. See your workouts alongside the rest of your life. PHONE AND WEB Use Shape on your iPhone or on the web — everything stays in sync. The big screen calendar is great for planning your week, month, or entire season. Quick edits on your phone when you're on the go. WORKS WITH YOUR GEAR Connect Apple Health, Garmin, and Wahoo. Shape pulls in your completed activities so your AI recommendations improve based on what you've actually done. THE BACKSTORY I'm Samuel, a design engineer who can't stop running, cycling, and skiing. I ran the Stockholm half marathon with a cold and ended up with pneumonia. Spent months rebuilding from 15-minute walks back to real training. I built Shape to plan that comeback — now it's how I train smarter every day. Terms of Use: https://shapecalendar.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://shapecalendar.com/privacy

Your first 70.3 deserves a real coach. Stryde gives you one for $9.99/month. Stryde is an AI endurance coach built for athletes training for a real race - your first marathon, your first half-Ironman, your first ultra. The same coaching principles a human coach would use, adapted to your paces, your weekly hours, and how your body is actually responding this week. WHO IT IS FOR - First-time 70.3 and Ironman athletes - Marathoners and ultra runners chasing a goal time - Triathletes balancing three sports without a human coach - Athletes whose Garmin and Strava can track them but will not coach them WHAT YOU GET - Multi-week training plan adapted to your specific race - An AI coach that knows your paces, race date, recent workouts, and how you are feeling - Structured workouts with pace zones and tips, not "easy run 45 min" - GPS tracking with auto-marked mile and km splits - Strava integration (optional sync both ways) - Race day mental prep, nutrition planning, transition prep - Daily check-ins that actually adapt next week's plan based on your sleep, energy, soreness, RPE HOW IT IS DIFFERENT Most apps track you. Stryde coaches you. Your plan adapts every week based on what actually happened - missed workouts, low energy days, races that went better or worse than expected. Tell the coach your knee hurts and it will modify tomorrow without canceling your race goal. If you have used TrainingPeaks or Final Surge: this is similar, with an AI coach instead of static plans, at half the price, built for athletes who do not have $300/month for a human coach. PRICING Week 1 free - full access to your plan, no credit card required. Then $9.99/month, cancel anytime. No hidden fees. PRIVACY AND SAFETY Stryde is built with conservative coaching principles. The AI knows when to back off, when to push, and when to redirect you to a doctor for chest pain or symptoms beyond normal training fatigue. Built by an athlete, for athletes. Terms of Use: https://strydecoach.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://strydecoach.com/privacy