- Strava has rolled out new training profiles in its latest mobile update
- The new activities include padel, basketball, volleyball cricket and dance
- They are being rolled out to users globally, and Strava has teased that more are on the way
As far as the best fitness apps go, Strava is still one of the most popular fitness subscription services out there, and has the advantage over Fitbit Premium and Garmin Connect as it’s tracker agnostic. Now it’s adding even more workouts to its list of activities.
If you have updated your Strava app, you will now find the five new forms of exercise: dance, basketball, volleyball, cricket and padel (ie the world’s fastest growing sport). This brings Strava’s plethora of exercise options to over 50, and according to the platform, its new additions were some of the most requested activities by users, and now they’re finally being rolled out to its 180 million+ users.
While it’s a relatively small upgrade, the addition of these new workouts lifts a huge limitation that kept users from accurately logging these types of activities before. Despite Strava’s diverse range of activities, users who frequently participate in the activities mentioned above would have to use the generic ‘Workout’ option to log their activity sessions (assuming they logged natively in Strava), resulting in inaccurate tracking metrics.
With designated padel, basketball, volleyball, cricket and dance tracking options, it makes room for more sports lovers to enjoy activities less common than the running or cycling that Strava originally built its brand on. But the biggest gain is that users can now track these specific activities without second-guessing the accuracy of the results, as Strava highlighted in its announcement:
“Instead of having to record these sports as a ‘Workout’, enthusiasts of these five newly added activities can now specifically select their favorite in the sport selector menu before recording in Strava.
Although the five new training profiles are new to the Strava experience, other fitness tracking apps jumped on this bandwagon a while back. The Apple Watch’s default Workout app has supported tracking profiles for dance, volleyball, cricket and basketball for a while, though it has yet to roll out a padel option.
Aside from its new training options, Strava has given its mobile app experience quite a glow recently. Its new Premium tier feature Instant Workouts takes your recent activity logs into account to generate personalized recommendations across 40+ different sports activities. Strava has also rolled out a WorkOutdoors-style feature for Apple Watch users, allowing you to view and follow a pre-generated route map.
Strava has a lot more going on behind the scenes, though, and as well as its lineup of new workouts, the company has teased that more activity types are coming to users this year, likely part of improvements ahead of the long-rumored IPO. We’ve reached out to Strava for comment and will update this story when we know more.
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