Therabody, the wellness technology company, announced a strategic partnership with smartwatch provider Garmin to bring smarter recovery solutions to athletes, and “to help better understand the ways recovery positively impacts human performance.”
Garmin manufactures sensors that measure a wide range of data, including heart rate, sleep and physical activity. By leveraging this data and its proprietary algorithms, Garmin smartwatches can provide insights into stress levels, Body Battery energy levels and overall cardiovascular performance. Therabody’s scientists will leverage this data to measure the impact of recovery on athletic performance, including how Therabody’s products and routines affect positive outcomes, “changing the face of performance for athletes at all levels.”
“We are excited to collaborate with Therabody to help athletes of all levels perform—and recover—at their best,” said Susan Lyman, Garmin VP of Global Consumer Marketing. “By providing athletes with these tools, they can make more informed training decisions and, in turn, work to take their performance to the next level.”
AI-Powered Personalized Recovery
Along with the Garmin collaboration announcement, Therabody is launching its Beta version of an AI-powered digital recovery platform, Coach by Therabody.
Residing in the Therabody app, Coach by Therabody is designed to “continuously analyze health and activity data alongside user provided goals to offer tailored recovery recommendations developed by sports scientists and performance professionals.” By collecting data from Garmin smartwatches with popular platforms like Apple, Google, and Strava, Coach by Therabody “offers a personalized recovery experience in real time, to help consumers achieve their performance goals more effectively.”
While the current Therabody app provides easy-to-follow proprietary routines, Coach by Therabody takes it a step further by using data to “dynamically understand users’ ever-changing needs.” Therabody Coach interprets wearables data, integrates user feedback and connects with Therabody products, beginning today, with Theragun, to offer reminders and custom recommendations that support athletic performance and general well-being. Therabody said the “result is the most dynamic and personalized recovery recommendations [Therabody] has ever offered, ensuring a comprehensive recovery plan with little to no effort on the user’s part that can fit seamlessly into their lifestyles.”
“It’s important to note that Therabody is not doing AI for AI’s sake,” said Therabody CMO John Solomon. “As with all our products, we looked at how AI could solve a problem for our consumers. And over time, feeding it with the rich data from Garmin will allow us to really understand how recovery impacts performance at a scale that’s not been achievable until now.”
“To be able to combine Garmin’s best-in-class health and activity data with Therabody’s excellent recovery routines will provide uniquely personalized recovery recommendations that are not available with any other wearable integration today,” said Monty Sharma, president and CEO, Therabody. “Even better, we will work together to understand and improve performance for athletes of all kinds.”
Image courtesy Coach by Therabody
