- Strava has launched new training profiles in its latest mobile update
- New activities include paddle tennis, basketball, volleyball, cricket and dance.
- They are being rolled out to users around the world and Strava has teased that more are on the way.
When it comes to the best fitness apps, Strava remains one of the most popular fitness subscription services out there, with an edge over Fitbit Premium and Garmin Connect, as it’s tracker-agnostic. Now he’s adding even more workouts to his list of activities.
If you’ve updated your Strava app, you’ll now find five new workouts: dance, basketball, volleyball, cricket and paddle tennis (i.e. the fastest growing sport in the world). This brings Strava’s plethora of training options to more than 50, and according to the platform, its new additions were some of the most in-demand activities for users and are now finally rolling out to its more than 180 million users.
Although it’s a relatively small update, the addition of these new workouts removes a huge restriction that previously prevented users from accurately recording these types of activities. Despite Strava’s diverse range of activities, users who frequently participate in the activities listed above would have to use the generic ‘Training’ option to log their activity sessions (as long as they were logged in natively to Strava), resulting in inaccurate tracking metrics.
With designated tracking options for paddle tennis, basketball, volleyball, cricket and dance, it makes room for more sports lovers to enjoy activities that are less common than running or cycling, which Strava initially built its brand on. But the biggest advantage is that users can now track these specific activities without doubting the accuracy of the results, which 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 selection menu before recording in Strava.”
Although its five new training profiles are new to the Strava experience, other fitness tracking apps jumped on this bandwagon a while ago. The standard Workout app on the Apple Watch has supported tracking profiles for dance, volleyball, cricket and basketball for quite some time, although it has yet to implement a padel option.
Aside from its new exercise options, Strava has put a big shine on its mobile app experience recently. Its new Premium level feature, Instant Workouts, takes into account your recent activity logs to generate personalized recommendations on more than 40 different sports activities. Strava has also launched a WorkOutdoors-style feature for Apple Watch users, allowing them to view and follow a pre-generated route map.
However, there’s a lot more to Strava behind the scenes, and in addition to its slew of new workouts, the company has teased that there are more types of activities on the way for users this year, likely part of improvements ahead of its long-rumored IPO. We’ve reached out to Strava for comment and will update this story when we know more.
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