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Inform your training decisions better with content from scientific and medical journals.
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Introducing DirectScience, the only cycling training app that combines adaptive suggestions with content from scientific and medical journals. We believe that the best path to efficient training and high performance is by thoroughly examining scientific literature.
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Determining Adaptations...
Our adaptive model suggests workouts that may better benefit you.
We write detailed articles. We've covered topics like how nutrition affects your body composition and how metabolism defines your low intensity endurance. It's information targeted at making you faster. 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 scientific research, and we provide an editorial service that makes it easier to access it. We are not an opinionated coaching platform, and all our sources are cited so you can read the original literature.
Exercise Alone
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 preparation using the most informed methods 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. The original literature is always linked.
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[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.
Our adaptive training model suggests effective workout alternatives and tends towards a favourable training load. Our adaptive training tools, which also include pathway scores and recommendation levels, are meant to supplement your scientifically-informed training decisions.
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Completing an indoor workout is one of a few ways that trigger adaptive suggestions.
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When you've completed your workout, you also say how you felt.
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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.
Adaptive suggestions also take into account your goal events, outdoor activities, missed workouts, and strength training so that they are effective.
Join DirectScience for a one week free trial on our website or desktop application, now available on Mac and Windows. Our 15 minute onboarding process is available to you so that you can determine whether our service is right for you, or cancel at no charge. It includes another article, These Methods Improve Your Body Weight and Composition, and information about more features intended to improve your cycling training.
Inform your training decisions better with content from scientific and medical journals.
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