Terms

What this is

athlete.am imports your training history from sources you connect and computes an analysis of it: fitness, fatigue and form, intensity distribution, efficiency and decoupling, power and pace curves, and models that flag days departing from your own baseline. It is a tool for looking at your own data.

It is free to use. There is nothing to buy, nothing is sold, and there is no advertising.

Your account

• Sign-in is handled by Clerk. Keep your access to it secure; anyone who can sign in as you can see everything your account can see.
• One account per person. The analysis is built on one athlete’s own history, and splitting or merging people makes every figure meaningless.
• You must be 16 or older. This handles health data, and a younger athlete should not be agreeing to that on their own.
• Your data is yours. Connecting a source does not transfer ownership of anything. What happens to it is described in the privacy policy, which is part of these terms.

Connected sources

• Connect only accounts that are yours. A grant you give here should be for your own Strava account, not someone else’s.
• Those services have their own terms. Strava decides what it gives this site and can change or withdraw that at any time, and its own agreement with you still applies.
• The figures are only as good as the source. Everything here is computed from what your device recorded and what Strava passed on. A missing heart rate, a paused watch or a mis-set maximum heart rate moves the numbers, and this site cannot detect or correct that for you.
• You can disconnect whenever you like — here, or from the source itself. Disconnecting stops new data arriving. What was already imported stays until you ask for it to be deleted.

Not medical advice

This is the part worth reading twice. athlete.am is not a medical device, is not regulated as one, and nothing it shows you is a diagnosis or medical advice.

The signals page measures how far a figure sits from your own recent baseline. A flag means a number is unusual for you — nothing more. It is not evidence of illness, injury, overtraining or recovery, and the written readings beside the charts are a model’s description of those numbers, not a clinical opinion.

Decisions about training through symptoms, or about anything that worries you, belong with a doctor who can examine you. Do not use this site to rule something out.

Fair use

• The coach has limits, and they are shared. Twenty questions an hour and sixty a day per athlete, against a ceiling of four hundred a day across the whole site. The language-model account behind it belongs to the site owner, so an unlimited endpoint would let one person spend everyone’s.
• Do not try to reach data that is not yours. Every athlete’s data is private until they accept a connection, and probing for someone else’s ends an account.
• Do not scrape, automate or resell it. The import budgets against Strava are finite and shared; exhausting them stops everyone’s sync, not just yours.
• What you can see about a connection stays between you. Someone who accepts a connection is showing you their training, not publishing it.

What is not promised

• No uptime guarantee. This runs on a small budget with no on-call rota. It can be down, and a sync can be late or skipped.
• Sources can stop working. Strava can rate-limit, change its API or withdraw access, and Garmin can refuse a sign-in. When that happens the site shows the last good data and says the source is failing, which is the most it can do.
• Figures can be wrong. They are computed from imperfect inputs by models with stated assumptions. Read them as a view, not as measurement.
• Keep your own copy if it matters to you. Your data exists on Strava, and this site is not a backup of it. Nothing here is guaranteed to survive a failure, and the service is provided as it is, without warranty.

Ending it

• You can leave at any time. Ask, and your athlete record and everything keyed to it is deleted — activities, daily rollups, health rows, dashboards, connections and coach usage.
• An account can be closed for the things under fair use above, or if the service stops running. Where it is not an abuse case, there will be notice and a chance to take your data first.
• The service may stop. It is small and personal. If it is going to be shut down, accounts will be told in advance rather than finding out by visiting.

Changes

These terms can change as the software does. The date below is the last change. A change that affects what happens to your data or what you may do here will be said plainly rather than quietly edited in.