Everything new in NUA: strength, routes, weather and a much better memory
Gerard
Co-founder
This past month we've added new ways NUA can help you train better: from building your strength sessions and making them progress, to designing the route you're going to ride, checking the weather wherever you train, and remembering far better everything you tell it.
If you don't know NUA yet, it's an AI coach for endurance sports that works over WhatsApp. It plans your weeks, analyses every session and adapts your training to your life, using your history and your data to make better decisions with you.
Here's what's new and ready to use.
01Strength that progresses with you
NUA no longer just tells you when to do strength: it now builds the full session and makes it progress with you.
- Specific exercises, with sets, reps, load and a video for each one so you know how to do it.
- At home or at the gym. Tell it where you train and the session adapts to the equipment you have.
- Real progression. Tell it what weight you lifted and NUA will adjust the loads of your next sessions as you progress.
- Made for you. If an exercise doesn't suit you or something's bothering you, ask it to swap or remove it. It will keep that in mind for your next sessions too.
Every session comes with its own sheet: what to do, how to do it and why it's on today.
To get started, send it something like "I want to do strength twice this week".
02Routes built around your training
You already know which session is on. Now NUA can also help you decide where to ride it.
You can ask, for example:
- "Make me a 2-hour gravel route from home."
- "A road ride on Saturday that goes through Tona and stops for a coffee."
- "60 km on tarmac only."
NUA designs road, gravel or MTB routes with the session you have that day in mind. You can ask it to go through specific towns, add a stop at a café or a water fountain, or tell it what kind of terrain you want to avoid.
The route arrives with a map in the chat and a link to see it in full, share it and download the GPX to load onto your bike computer.
03The weather, wherever you train
35 degrees, rain or wind can change a session completely. NUA can now check the hourly forecast for the place where you're actually going to train.
It also knows when you're away. If you tell it you're in the Alps from the 15th to the 20th, it can check the weather there to help you plan those days.
With that information it can suggest:
- When to head out to avoid the worst hours of heat, rain or wind.
- What to bring, from extra water to another layer or your windbreaker.
- How to adapt the session if conditions aren't on your side.
And when it builds you a route, it can include the forecast at the starting point.
04A much better memory
A good coach shouldn't ask you the same thing every week.
That's why we've made NUA's memory much better. It now remembers more of what you tell it about yourself: your schedule, injuries, equipment, preferences and other details that matter for your training, and it can use them in future conversations without you having to repeat them.
And it doesn't just remember them: it takes them into account when it makes decisions with you.
If you ask it to move a session to Monday but you'd told it you can't train on Mondays, NUA can remind you and suggest an alternative. If you still want to do it, it does. The decision is still yours.
And if something changes, just tell it.
05COROS and WHOOP, connected
NUA already connected with Garmin, Wahoo, Strava, Polar and intervals.icu. Now you can connect COROS and WHOOP too.
With COROS, your workouts reach NUA automatically, without uploading anything by hand.
With WHOOP, NUA can bring in data like your sleep and recovery to better understand how you start each day and weigh it alongside the rest of your training.
To connect them, just ask NUA in the chat and it will send you the link.
And also
- Hill running, better analysed. In your session details you can see, section by section, your grade-adjusted pace —for example, 5:40/km, equivalent to 4:50/km on the flat— and NUA uses it to better understand your effort.
- More precise intervals and sprints. The analysis of your bike sessions picks up every interval and every sprint more accurately, including on the indoor trainer.
- Tired days. If you turn up very fatigued, NUA can suggest moving your key session to another day instead of forcing you through it when it's not the right time.
A more complete coach, every month
Our goal is for NUA to understand, better and better, everything that shapes your training.
Not just which session is on, but where you'll do it, what the weather will be like, what equipment you have, how you're recovering, what you did over the last few days and everything you've already told it about yourself.
All of these features are available now.
To try them, just message NUA.
Want to try it?
Message NUA on WhatsApp and ask for your first route or your next strength session.
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