The Strong Paddler app
A training app made for paddling
On the water, the tide and the wind change your speed as much as your fitness does. The app takes them out of the numbers, so you can see how your own paddling is changing. Your program, your gym sessions and your Garmin data are all in one place.
Paddling efficiency
Is it getting easier?
After each paddle, the app works out how much the current and wind helped or held you back. Then it compares your speed with your heart rate.
After a few weeks you can see whether you’re holding more speed for the same effort. This chart covers twelve weeks, including a change of boat.
Day to day
Your training in one place
It runs in your phone’s browser and installs to your home screen, on iPhone or Android.
Today
Today’s session from your program, next to last night’s sleep, HRV and recovery from your Garmin.
Gym sessions, step by step
Live Mode walks you through each exercise with Ben’s video. Log the weight and effort as you go, and see what you lifted last time.
Your whole block
Your program, and where you are in it. Paddles from your watch match to it automatically.
Plans
The app comes with both plans
Membership
$19 USD a month
Or $129 USD a year.
The app, with gym sessions in Live Mode, Garmin sync, tide and wind adjusted speed and your training log. Plus every program, course and session on the site.
Monthly Coaching
$69 USD a month
Everything in the Membership.
Your program is built from a template in the app and adjusted for you as you go, and you get a call with Ben each month to talk your training through.
Do I need a Garmin?
Garmin syncs automatically. With another watch, you can upload a .FIT file after each paddle.
Does the tide and wind adjustment work where I paddle?
Yes. It’s worked out from your own GPS track, so it works on any water. It’s most reliable on paddles that go out and back over the same stretch.
Is it in the app store?
No, it’s a web app. Open it once in your phone’s browser, add it to your home screen, and it works like any other app, notifications included.
Can Ben see my data?
Your sessions, yes. Heart rate, sleep and other body data stay private unless you choose to share them. You pick this the first time you open the app and can change it in Settings. On Monthly Coaching your workouts stay shared, because that’s how your program is monitored.