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A personal coach
for everyone

CritixFit plans your training, reads how rested you are every morning and talks with you any time of day · it starts from where you are

  • Plans your training
  • Reads how rested you are every morning
  • Talks with you any time of day
  • Starts from where you are
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Training guidance, not medical advice · your coaches are AI

Works with
  • Garmin
  • Strava
  • Polar
  • Suunto
  • Wahoo
20

years of coaching

from an IRONMAN certified coach
60

seconds to read your HRV

with your phone camera, no watch
92

changes a pro coach made

to how your plan is built
4

coaches you can call

training, body, food and mind

Sound familiar?

Training alone
is hard

Six things people tell us before they start · tap the ones you have felt and see what changes

  1. CritixFit

    Answer a few questions a real coach wrote · your plan starts from where you are today

    Try it below
  2. CritixFit

    Every morning CritixFit reads how you recovered · after a bad night, your coach tells you to take it easier

    The CritixFit app after a short night: Feel 15 out of 100, depleted
  3. CritixFit

    Four coaches in your pocket · they answer at six in the morning or at midnight

  4. CritixFit

    Plain words · every number comes with what it means for you

    The CritixFit app explaining a score in plain words
  5. CritixFit

    Tell it what hurts · the plan grows slowly and strength work supports it

    The CritixFit athlete profile keeping watch over a tight Achilles
  6. CritixFit

    A community that cheers you on, challenges to join and a coach who checks in

    A post in the CritixFit community: a first 10K

Why CritixFit

Other apps record your workout
CritixFit coaches you

Apps like Strava

Great at recording and sharing · then tomorrow is up to you

CritixFit starts every day from how you slept

Each morning your coach reads your sleep and HRV, then tells you how hard to go today

The CritixFit app after a short night: Feel 15 out of 100, HRV 44
Apps like TrainingPeaks

Built for coaches · charts full of terms like

CritixFit says it in plain words

The same numbers, called what they are FitnessFatigueForm

The CritixFit app explaining Fitness in plain words

Answer one question at a time · then forget your plan, your body and your sleep

Alex remembers you

Your plan, your sleep, what hurts and what works for you, kept in one profile

The CritixFit athlete profile: preferences, readiness trend and motivation

Features

Everything
in one app

The real app, just as you'll use it, shown with a sample athlete's workouts

  1. Workout reviewLaps, charts and a map with the weather
  2. Race time predictorEnter one result and get your time for every distance
  3. Route finderRoutes that match today's workout
  4. Training calendarYour whole plan, day by day
  5. Coach chatAsk a coach anything, day or night
The morning check-in in the CritixFit app
Morning check-inThree taps · sleep, soreness, energy
The CritixFit Score card
CritixFit ScoreHow fit you are, and what lifts it
Chatting with Alex in the CritixFit app
Your coachesChat or call, they remember everything
The arcade of training games in the CritixFit app
ArcadeQuick games that sharpen a real skill
The HRV card
HRV every morningFrom your watch or your phone camera
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Seven languagesThe whole app, your coaches too

Your plan

Questions a real
coach wrote

In the app it takes seven short steps and about five minutes · answer a few of them here and watch the shape of your plan appear

Your sample plan
A typical week

    Get my real planA preview from the same rules the app uses · your real plan starts from your own training

    Recovery · every morning

    Your coach knows
    how you slept

    Every morning CritixFit reads your HRV, a number from your heartbeat that drops when your body is tired, and tells you how hard today should be

    • Every morning CritixFit reads your HRV
    • HRV comes from your heartbeat and drops when your body is tired
    • Your coach tells you how hard today should be

    A training guide only · not a medical device

    The app after a bad night: Feel 15, readiness 31, HRV 44 The app after an average night: Feel 48, readiness 56, HRV 57 The app after a good night: Feel 81, readiness 78, HRV 68
    CritixFitnow
    Good morning · Alex

    Readiness
    78
    HRV
    68ms
    Resting heart rate
    48bpm
    A fixed plan this morning Hard intervals, 6 × 3 minutes

    The same workout, however you slept

    A

    With a watch

    Your watch sends your sleep and recovery every night · there is nothing to do

    A month of HRV readings from a watch in the CritixFit app
    B

    Without a watch

    Rest your fingertip on your phone's front camera for up to a minute · the screen lights your finger and the app reads your pulse

    1. 1

      Rest your index fingertip on the small front camera at the top of the screen

    2. 2

      Barely touch it · like resting on a bubble · the screen is the light

    3. 3

      Hold still · your pulse appears in about 15 seconds and your recovery score (HRV) in under a minute

    SAMPLE READING

    72BPM

    41.9Recovery (HRV)
    90%Signal quality
    33/36Beats

    The camera reading stays on your phone · nothing is saved or sent from this page

    Your watch

    Which watch
    do you wear?

    Tap yours and watch it connect · from then on your data arrives by itself

    COROScoming soon

    Pick one to connect it

    CritixFit on your Garmin · our own watch app is in beta

    The watch connections screen in the CritixFit app

    Your coaching team

    Four coaches
    who know you

    Alex plans your training and leads the team · Marcus looks after your body, Sofia your food and Mia your mind · they are AI coaches, there for you day and night, in seven languages

    Want to ask Alex something?

    Call him right from this page and ask him anything

    These are recorded answers in English, in the coaches' own voices · in the app you chat with them or call them live, in seven languages

    The coach behind the AI

    Every plan follows
    a real coach's method

    Before launch, a professional triathlon coach with almost 20 years of experience and an IRONMAN certification went through the plans with us and corrected them, one rule at a time, until he approved them · his method is now built into every plan Alex writes

    • A professional triathlon coach with almost 20 years of experience
    • IRONMAN certified
    • Before launch he corrected our plans one rule at a time, until he approved them
    • His method is built into every plan Alex writes
    20 years
    of coaching, IRONMAN certified
    92
    changes to how plans are built
    4 races
    half-distance triathlons the coach raced in just four months, plus a half marathon
    How CritixFit was built · 48 seconds

    Strength and mobility

    200 exercises
    each with its own video

    Strength sessions are part of your plan, at home or in the gym · every move has its own short video · pick a body part, then tap any move to watch it

    One plan, every sport

    Run, ride, swim
    or all three

    RunningFrom your first 5K to a marathon
    CyclingEasy rides, long rides and hard efforts
    SwimmingPool and open water
    StrengthBuilt into every plan, so your body keeps up

    Training for a triathlon? CritixFit plans all three sports in one week

    Community

    Train together
    cheer each other on

    Share your workouts with photos and videos, give kudos, comment and join monthly challenges with people at every level

    • Share your workouts with photos and videos
    • Give kudos and comment
    • Join monthly challenges with people at every level

    James just ran his first 10K · tap the heart on his post to cheer him on

    James's first 10K post in the CritixFit community
    The CritixFit community feed with challenges

    AI chatbot or coach

    Why not just ask
    an AI chatbot?

    A chatbot only knows what you type · Alex also knows your plan, how you slept last night and any pain you mentioned · here is the same question about the same person, answered both ways

    Pick a question

    A regular AI chatbotIt only sees your question

    What it knew about you

    • A half triathlon in 12 weeks
    • Slept badly last night
    • Body not recovered this morning
    • Slight Achilles pain

    Alex, your CritixFit coachHe knows your plan, your night and your Achilles

    What it knew about you

    • A half triathlon in 12 weeks
    • Slept badly last night
    • Body not recovered this morning
    • Slight Achilles pain

    Both answers were written by the same AI · the only difference is what it knows about you · answers are shown in English

    Under the hood

    Built on the best
    technology of today

    The same technology that runs the world's biggest apps · fast everywhere, always on and ready to grow with you

    • Google Cloud
    • Google Gemini
    • Cloudflare
    • PostgreSQL
    • Redis
    • three.js
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • Node.js
    • Mapbox
    Google Gemini

    The thinking and the voices behind your four coaches

    Cloudflare

    A global network that serves the app fast, wherever you train

    Google Cloud

    The servers that write your plans and run your calls

    PostgreSQL

    A rock solid database, the kind banks and hospitals trust

    Engineered with Claude by Anthropic

    Security

    Your health data
    is locked tight

    Your sleep, your heart and your body are personal · they are protected at every step, and only you decide what happens to them

    • DDoS protection
    • TLS 1.3
    • AES-256
    • Row level security
    • Signed tokens
    • Google Cloud
    • Rate limits
    • GDPR
    • Consent first
    • Invite only

    While it travels

    • Encrypted on the wayEvery connection uses HTTPS with TLS 1.3
    • Signed login on every requestEach request is checked against your secure sign in
    • Calls on short ticketsVoice calls use signed tickets that expire in minutes

    Where it is stored

    • Encrypted at restStored data is encrypted with AES-256
    • Only you see your dataDatabase rules lock every record to its owner
    • Your watch keys sealedConnections to Garmin, Strava and others are stored with AES-256-GCM

    Against attacks

    • Protected networkCloudflare shields the app from attacks
    • Limits against abuseRate limits stop anyone flooding the service
    • Watched around the clockErrors and outages are tracked the moment they happen

    In your hands

    • Your consent firstHealth data is only used after you say yes
    • Delete it all, any timeClose your account and your data goes with it
    • Never soldWe do not sell your data, to anyone

    Questions we always get

    Questions and answers

    Still curious?Alex picks up and answers

    Is it for me if I'm a beginner?

    Yes · CritixFit is for anyone who wants a personal trainer's help, whether you're starting to walk or run, getting back in shape or training for a race

    Do I need a smartwatch?

    No · with a watch your sleep and recovery arrive on their own · without one, your phone camera reads your recovery in under a minute

    How long does it take to start?

    About five minutes · seven short steps a real coach wrote, then Alex builds your plan from your answers

    How do I get in?

    CritixFit opens to new people in small groups · leave your email at the bottom of this page and we'll write when your invite is ready

    Early access

    Your coach is ready
    when you are

    CritixFit is opening to new people in small groups · leave your email and we'll write as soon as your invite is ready

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