Leveraging AI in Endurance Sports

We launched our expert series with our first guest Markus Rummel, physicist and triathlete. Markus founded the company AI Endurance, a platform that leverages AI for coaching. Markus' mission is to modernize coaching by following a scientific and data-driven approach to training. Listen in to learn more about Markus' journey from physics to predicting his own bike power to what became the company AI Endurance is today.

(00:00) Introduction

(00:49) Markus journey into endurance sports

(05:55) Early experiments: Predicting his FTP, challenges in predicting bike performance vs. running performance

(16:20) Defining AI, Machine Learning and Generative AI

(22:58) AI Endurance: The AI Coach for Runners, Triathletes & Cyclists

(26:25) Essential tools to connect with AI Endurance

(31:16) The role of Heart Rate Variability (HRV) in training & performance

(36:18) How AI Endurance uses HRV to determine an Athlete’s threshold

(47:06) Challenges in using data for swimming

(50:06) AI driven Training Plan creation

(01:03:07) AI Coach vs. Human Coach

(01:16:03) Future of AI in Sports

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Learn more about human coaching on top of AI Endurance on www.jornadaendurance.com

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