Garmin has acquired TrainingPeaks and TrainHeroic to improve the quality of the coaching it offers to users of its bike computers and multisport watches.
Launched in 1999 to enable coaches to work remotely with athletes, TrainingPeaks is considered one of the best cycling apps and pioneered data-driven training analysis, and has become the most popular online platform for structured endurance training. While you can coach yourself on TrainingPeaks, Garmin seems more interested in letting you buy training plans from human coaches or pay extra for more tailored coaching. This appears to affirm the value of human expertise, pushing back against the spread of AI coaching.
