Sessions, as Holt writes them
- RecoveryToday45 min
45 min easy, Zone 1.
- Endurance60 min
60 min in Zone 2.
- Threshold50 min
15 min easy, 25 min in Zone 4, 10 min easy.
- Long effort90 min
70 min in Zone 2, then 10 min in Zone 3 and 10 min in Zone 4.
The call
One sentence, before you've decided anything.
Most mornings you don't need a dashboard. You need to know whether today is a day to push or a day to ease off. Holt opens on that answer and keeps every number behind it one tap away.
| Marker | Two weeks | Last night | Against your usual |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep | 8h3m | Score 88 | |
| HRV | 59ms | 2 below | |
| Resting heart rate | 52bpm | Level | |
| Body Battery | 100 | Charge on waking | |
| Stress | 19 | Low, all of yesterday | |
| Breathing rate | 14.6per min | Level |
82
Today's read
Ready to train.
Recovery looks good across the board today. You're in good shape to train.
Example figures. Sleep, HRV, Body Battery and the rest are Garmin's own measurements, shown as measured and never re-scored. Readiness is Holt's reading of them, judged against your baseline and nobody else's.
The session
Then it tells you what to do with it.
- Rest
- Recover
- Hold
- Build
- Push
Every day gets one of five calls, sized from everything you did before today. If the day has a session in it, Holt writes it out: how long, and how hard.
No heart rate to go on? The same sessions are written as effort out of ten, or as walks if walking is what you do.
One tap sends it to your Garmin as a workout for today. The watch runs the steps and holds you to its own heart rate zones. Switch on Send every morning and it's on your wrist before you're out of bed.
Afterwards, Holt checks the session against the call: on plan, harder, or lighter. Tomorrow's call takes it into account.
The briefing in Holt, and a Garmin in the middle of a workout. Photo: Meredith Dietz
Tell it what the watch can't feel.
Sore muscles, low energy or a cold coming on don't show up in heart rate. Add them in a short check-in, and today's call takes them into account.
A lunchtime walk, phone in your pocket.
No watch?
Still counts.
Holt is a whole tracker with nothing on your wrist. Record a walk, run, ride or hike with your phone's GPS and step counter, and it lands in the same place as everything else.
- Four questions each morning
- Sleep, energy, soreness, stress. Ten seconds, and the coach knows whether to push you or hold you back.
- Effort, out of ten
- Rate a session when you finish. Skip it, and Holt estimates from your pace on the same scale.
The work
Do the session.
Then read it back.
Whatever recorded it, your watch or your phone, an activity opens the same way: the route, the splits, the time in each zone, and charts built from the same samples.
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Fig. 1The activity
The route, colored by heart rate, speed or climb. Then splits, charts, and a plain line on how it went.
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Fig. 2Strength
Build a routine set by set, with supersets and rest timers. Follow it on your phone, or send it to your Garmin.
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Fig. 3Compare
Two activities side by side, and a plain verdict on which one came out ahead.
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Fig. 4Records
Best times from 1K up, then longest, fastest and most climbing. Kept per sport.
The share
Some days are worth showing.
Any activity turns into one clean image: the route, how far, how long, then pace, climb and heart rate. Keep it on white, or put one of your own photos behind it.
- Sized for stories
- 1080 by 1920, so it fills a story edge to edge. It reads just as well dropped into a chat.
- Shared by you, not by Holt
- Holt makes the image and hands it to your phone's share sheet. Nothing is posted or saved for you.
Your phone buzzes once.
Every personal best, kept.
22.84km
Longest trail run. Example figure.
Holt goes through every activity as it lands and tells you the moment you go further, faster or longer than you ever have.
Alsoin the app
Smaller things, built with the same care.
- Vitals
- Every health marker in one list, each with its own history a tap away.
- Trends
- Weeks and months of pace, distance and heart rate, per sport.
- Fitness tests
- Cooper and Rockport, timed and scored in the app.
- Calendar
- The training month at a glance.
- Widgets
- One number, or the whole morning, on your home screen.
- Live Activities
- Pace and distance on the lock screen while you record.
- Shared routines
- Send a strength routine as a link. One tap adds it.
- Notifications
- A record, a goal reached, a finished night. Each one switches off on its own.
Yours to theme.
Five backgrounds, eight accents, light or dark. The swatches are the app's own. Try them on this page.
Background
Accent
Green on Green, the way this page ships.
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