May Updates: Loads of new features, with a catch
A teaser of things to come...
By Angus
So it's a bit of a funny update this month: loads of juicy new features, but you can't actually use any of them 👹
I've been busy getting everything wired up to re-launch Pufferized as a totally new app, with a shiny new name and a bit of a rebrand (👀), and so all of these features are currently locked away out of reach until you move over to the new thing!
I'll be in touch about how to move across. But in the meantime, here's a summary of the new features coming your way:
Push workouts to Garmin and Wahoo
You can now push any interval session from your plan straight to your device. The targets are relative (%FTP), so they land in your zones, and the coach has been well briefed on how to structure these.
Yes, Wahoo!
Worth its own line: in order to support pushing workouts to a Wahoo device, we also needed the Wahoo integration itself. This means that when you connect Wahoo, all your rides will auto-sync like they do with Strava and Garmin.
Native strength workout support
Similar to the idea of hitting "go" to push an interval session to Garmin or Wahoo, you now hit a little "Start" button on any strength session and actually do it.
The very simple interface allows you to go through all your planned exercises for a gym session - I find it just stops me from having to remember what I was supposed to be doing. Support for reps, weight, bodyweight, or time-based exercises. You can edit these manually yourself, and the coach is also pretty great at building them out now. Saving your preferred gym exercises as a Journal Entry is a good way to make the coach respect that.
Garmin Women's Health
We now bring in menstrual-cycle data for anyone who grants the Women's Health scope on Garmin. This can be used for adapting training, as an input on your status and just as useful context for the coach.
A new past-event history
This is now much more like a trophy cabinet of all your past events, and a way to save any adventure you want to highlight or analyse in more depth. Consistent lap, segment and AI meta-analysis whether your ride came from Strava, Garmin, Wahoo, or a FIT. Podium medals and result badges appear automatically when the results data can be verified in our database of events.
Ultra-friendly training load tracking
Do a 24-hour race or a 300km day and traditional CTL training-load models fall apart. Everything that follows an ultra looks like a blip that has no impact on your fitness. We've fixed it (I think): Big sessions now get 'normalised' against your own last 90 days, scaled to you. Your big race counts properly without wrecking the data. This is surfaced transparently so you can always de-normalise things if you wish.
Link multiple activities to a single session
You can now link several activities to a single session in your plan. This is to handle split recordings, brick sessions, the ride you accidentally stopped halfway. You can just choose to link a second activity after completing a session, and this will be saved.
Mais oui...
The whole app, and the AI coach, now works in English or French. You can change this in settings.
And a few more
20 new events in the system, a serious push on page-load speed, and automated personal coaching emails that you can subscribe to.
Pufferized is dead. Long live Pufferized.
Yup, there's a new name coming, and a slightly more polished brand along with it. The plan is to properly launch this in early July, but I will start organising existing peeps to migrate over throughout June.
As always, please share any feedback or ideas, and I hope many of you can see your previous requests showing up in this month's updates.