New sport types supported by TrainerRoad and Red Light Green Light!

Calling all multisport athletes, swimmers, and doers of any other types of training!

New sport types are officially available for Early Access on the website (coming soon to apps)!

These new sport types show you a FULL look at your training history which is now used to help inform Red Light Green Light, our intelligent fatigue prevention feature. It does this by automatically importing, displaying, and analyzing ALL sport types supported by Strava and Garmin.

What new sport types are supported?

Swim (!!!)
Transition
Walk
Hike
Strength Training
Ski/Snowboard
Golf
Row
Yoga
Paddleboard
Kayak
Other (includes all other types not listed above)

What to expect by enabling Early Access?

This initial Early Access launch is web-only and is coming soon to the apps. By enabling Early Access, both your past and future activities will be immediately imported, displayed, and considered by Adaptive Training and Red Light Green Light.

You’ll still get adaptations and red/yellow days as a result of new sport types in the apps while we finish up the remaining app work to display the activities.

How does it work?

Upload any sport type to Strava/Garmin and TrainerRoad will automatically import it. Then voila!, we’ll take care of any training adjustments as a result, if any.

Here’s a case where I went on a 3.5 hour hike that was outside of my normal training regimine — RLGL detected the unexpected training and triggered a yellow day on what would’ve been my Sunday Over/Under workout.

Adaptive Training delivered a mellow endurance ride instead. 😮‍💨

What else do I see by enabling Early Access to new sport types?

We’ve also made some other tweaks based on the addition of new sport types, such as:

Analysis pages for each sport type
Chronological ordering of your training and FTP changes
Improved sport type filtering from the Past Activities page
New thumbnails for new sport types

There are a couple things to note below about items on our radar:

Not included in this release but coming soon:

Import and display New Sport Types in the apps

How to flip the switch to see new sport types:

Head on over to the Early Access section of the website: Early Access

Go ahead and enable the section for New Sport Types, and your training history will immediately update to show all sports from Strava/Garmin, past and present, depending on what you have connected. You can double check your Activity Sync connections here: Activity Sync

We’re super excited to get this in your hands! You can find more info on our Help Center here, and support@trainerroad.com is also always happy to help.

Thank you everyone!