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Introducing DirectScience, the only cycling training app that combines personalized adaptive training with advanced, long-form content from scientific and medical journals. Ensure every training decision you make is the most effective so that you reach your fitness and health goals in the most efficient manner.
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Determining Adaptations...
Our statistical model suggests workout adaptations based on your goals and training history.
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Scientific content can be tedious, but it's important because it gives you a better intuition of what training works. In the long-term, it saves you time and energy. It produces better results.
Below, we break down the principles to how we approach creating it.
We write detailed articles. We've covered topics like how nutrition affects your body composition and how metabolism defines your low intensity endurance. When we write an article, we start by searching broadly through medical journals. We then identify common threads and piece them together to create an article. The result is non-mainstream, meritocratically selected, high-value information.
Our approach is to aggregate scientific data so that you can determine the best training approach for yourself.
For example, when we read about the factors that impact fat usage during exercise, we decided that fat usage is less important for inducing training adaptations because it is impacted by factors that do not affect training adaptations.
Highlights from our body composition article.
The bottom line is that whatever your cycling goals are, you'll likely benefit from our detailed articles. Find out for yourself by reading our sample article for free. Please take the time to read it all the way through. If you see the value, try our platform for free. All of our sources are cited so you can read the original literature.
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Diet Alone
Diet and Exercise
Diets Under 800 Calories Per Day
Weight Loss (kg)
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A chart from our body composition article.
Top professional cycling team Visma-Lease a Bike¹ employ over 25 coaches, nutritionists, and performance specialists. They also employ a full-time research scientist. Last year, they won 18 UCI WorldTour races. They demonstrate that science-backed preparation leads to the best results.
The vast majority of sources we use are reviews, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses. These types of scientific papers aggregate multiple studies on topics. This approach diminishes the risk of bias and eliminates non-repeatable results.
Sources
[1] From this review.
[2] From this meta-analysis.
[3] From this review.
[4] From this review.
[5] From this review.
Five sources from one of our articles. We've averaged around 12 souces per article so far.
An example of a workout adaptation on our calendar.
Get personalized training adaptations so that every workout you do is the most effective.
Adaptive training takes into account your goal events, outdoor activities, missed workouts, and strength training.
Adaptive training generates new workouts even if you have nothing scheduled yet.
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Completing an indoor workout is one of a few ways that trigger training adaptations.
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When you've completed your workout, you also say how you felt.
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Determining Adaptations...
Based on your response and stats, the model suggests changes to your next workouts.
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If applicable, it'll propose a sensible substitution like this one. Select the workout to view.
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