Hey guys,
Other than supporting an awesome platform, what are the benefits from being a subscription user of Intervals? Specifically, will subscribing allow me to sync all activities from Strava to my intervals account? Or will I still have to manually upload all missing activities that were not caught in a 3 month sync window?
Thanks and keep up the great work!
For me, I use both Training Peaks and Strava however I find Intervals.icuâs level of analytics amazing. I use Intervals for tracking all my Fitness, Fatigue, Form and Triathlon training data. Far superior that TP or Strava for mine. Cheers Adam.
Used TP for many years. After I learned how to use intervals (and especially make own activity graphs) I av stopped my payment to TP. TP is âoldâ fashion and I can not see what TP does that Intervals do not do.
Work with information technology and its interesting to see how new-comers / new technology change the game fast
Subscribing will allow you to NOT visit Intervals.icu (every 28 days?? I think) and still have auto sync Strava â intervals. If you are a subscriber, even if you do not visit, it will still auto-sync.
And subscribing will surely increase the chances of this site being around for all for a long time to come. Thatâs the biggest benefit of all
I look at it in a different way. After discovering intervals.icu and finally spending a few hours on it I had two reactions:
Felt totally stupid for not using it before
Not supporting wasnât really an option after two days, I felt so guilty using this awesome software without contributing a little bit.
For me the main benefits are:
Tx everyone. Becoming a supporter will let you
There will be more premium features in future but I want to keep a very functional free version as well.
Plus one on that. Even as a subscriber I think (at least thatâs how it seems) that intervals functions better being basically free to use. The level of trust this establishes leads to people supporting very quickly anyway. Hope this actually is the case and the supporter base is growing.
@Hans_Magne_Holst I too am both a TP and Intervals user. The main difference I see where I have to keep TP is the fact I have a bought structured 70.3 triathlon plan in there (3 months worth of workouts) that at the moment looks like I canât migrate across to Intervals in bulk and potentially would have to load each workout separately as a .FIT file. Thatâs the only difference I see between TP and Intervals. If there was some way that I could have all my structured workouts in Intervals Iâd dump TP in a second.
@david Any idea the % of users that use Intervals free of charge and the % of users that actually pay for it as a subscriber? Personally, Iâd be more than happy to pay more (similar to charges for TP, TR and other platforms) to have Intervals as my primary fitness and tracking tool. Yesterday, I spent some time putting together my graphs. The level of functionality, depth of tracking and look of the graphs is unbelievable. Absolutely far superior than TP. I am slowly finding myself opening Intervals up first each morning, then TP, then TrainerRoad and then Garmin Connect. As Iâve said before, if I could easily load all my bought TP workouts in to Intervals that would be a game-changer for me. Keep up the great work!
Thanks! I had a look and approx 5% of users seen in the last month who have been on the site at least 5 times (i.e. active users) are subscribers. From what I have read thats not bad.
Only 5%âŚcome on everyoneâŚbecome a paid subscriber so @david can continue building this to one day take over all the other training platforms plus build in an Intervals.icu app as well.
I have several times taken a print-out of my last 5, then last 1 years, also last 3 months graphic information to my doctor: a quick two-minute explanation (you can see the effect of lockdowns etc in 2020, plus actually getting [mild]covid this year), injuries etc, I highlighted a few things in pen for her, and she saw the effects of several factors that required a visit - no messing around. That alone is worth a subscription, just in saving her time, but also allowing me to plan better: Iâm not seven-day-week person, so âgoing for a run on a Monday, ride on a Tuesdayâ, just doesnât suit: I go when I feel good, and I can see when Iâm getting stronger, and intervals assists greatly with that.
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New user here!
I canât currently afford to subscribe but should be able to within a few years; after the first month will I lose access within Intervals to old training data? Not exactly sure what being unable to âdownloadâ the data means (just as a spreadsheet/csv or does it mean I canât upload new/old activity data from Strava to Intervals?)
The previous issue was when Strava refused to provide any increase in API calls and thus that limited the amount of calls that can be made to sync data from/to Strava. This has now been resolved and the current limitation does not exist anymore. (I do believe however, that the auto sync will stop if a user doensât appear to use the website > 28days)
That is correct. As a non-supporter you need to visit Intervals.icu at least every 28 days to keep downloading Strava activities. This is to save API calls and storage space.