How it works

How TriPilot works.

Five steps, from the questions it asks on day one to the way it reads your watch on a Tuesday morning and decides you’ve earned an easier session. Personalised first. Then priced honestly. Then adaptive. Then educational.

Step one

The system gets to know you.

TriPilot starts by asking a short set of smart questions, so the plan fits your life rather than the other way around.

Account setup

  • Name, email and age group — that’s it to get going.

Sport selection

  • Tick any combination of swim, bike and run.
  • One sport, two, or all three — the plan is built for whatever you pick.

Goal type

  • A specific race — give it a name, a date and a distance.
  • A distance — your first 5km, a half marathon, a sprint triathlon, a 70.3 — with a goal date.
  • Just getting started — a beginner path with no race in sight.

Availability & preferences

  • Which days you can genuinely train.
  • One mandatory rest day.
  • Up to two “long” days.
  • Max sessions per sport per week — up to four per sport when you’re doing several, up to six if you’re running only. Gym sits on top.

Benchmarks & zones

  • Simple pace and effort inputs, or test results if you have them.
  • Swim, bike and run each get their own starting zones.

This becomes your athlete profile — and it drives everything else.

Step two

Your plan is built around you — and stays flexible.

TriPilot doesn’t hand you a static PDF. It generates a living plan that adapts as you do.

Two-week blocks

  • Plans generate in 2-week blocks, so they can react to your actual life and your actual fatigue instead of a schedule written twelve weeks ago.

What the engine reads

  • Completed workouts — what you actually did, not what was planned.
  • Biometrics — resting heart rate, sleep, HRV and a fatigue/readiness score, via Apple Watch and Apple Health.

Rules first, AI second

  • A rules-first engine enforces the training principles: load progression, load caps, deload triggers.
  • An AI layer explains every change in plain language and tailors what it suggests next.

Scheduling that’s realistic

  • Six training days with one full rest day.
  • Never two long sessions on the same day.
  • Easy days between hard days.
  • Variety across intervals, tempo, long and easy — no repetitive back-to-back sessions.

You choose your start date within the next seven days, and earlier days are left empty — so you’re never forced into an arbitrary Monday start.

Step three

Coach-level intelligence, at a fraction of the price.

$15 NZD a month, after two weeks free. Here’s what that replaces.

What it sits below

  • 1:1 coaching — often hundreds a month.
  • Generic training plans — cheaper, but they don’t adapt to a single thing you do.
  • Several apps at once — one for planning, one for zones, another for education.

What you get

  • Personalised, adaptive training across swim, bike and run.
  • Built-in load management and deload logic.
  • Apple Watch and Apple Health integration for readiness-based adjustments.
  • Ongoing education on fuelling, nutrition, gear and testing — all in one place.

What costs extra

  • Nothing. Plan updates when life happens are included.
  • So are race-specific progressions.
  • So is the beginner-to-intermediate progression logic.

One subscription. One plan that evolves with you. No hidden coaching fees.

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Step four

Learn as you train: fuelling, gear and testing.

TriPilot isn’t just “here’s your workout”. It teaches you how to train smarter in every sport you’ve picked.

Fuelling & nutrition

  • Guidance on daily fuelling around your key sessions.
  • Race-specific fuelling strategies — a 70.3 is not an Olympic.
  • Simple rules for carbs, protein and hydration, scaled to the session load.

Gear education

  • Swim — wetsuit fit, goggles, pull buoy.
  • Bike — fit basics, tyres, wheels, trainer setup.
  • Run — shoe rotation, when to replace them, simple gait checks.

Testing & zones

  • Swim — CSS / T-pace style tests, or time-trial based zones.
  • Bike — FTP or field-test based power and heart-rate zones.
  • Run — threshold pace or critical-velocity style tests.
  • The app prompts a re-test at sensible intervals, so your zones stay accurate as you improve.

Think of it as built-in coach education: short, contextual lessons tied to the week’s focus — why you’re doing a threshold set today, and how to fuel for it.

Step five

Watch integration and real-world readiness.

TriPilot uses your watch and health data to make the plan safer and smarter.

Apple Watch & Apple Health

  • Resting heart rate, sleep and HRV feed into your fatigue and readiness score.
  • Completed workouts auto-log, so the plan knows what you actually did.

What it does with that

  • Suggests an easier session when you’re run down.
  • Triggers a deload week when biometrics and load both point to high fatigue.
  • Adjusts what’s coming based on what you completed — and what you missed.

This is where TriPilot stops being a static plan and starts being a responsive training partner.

Available on iOS

Ready when you are.

TriPilot is an iOS app, built to sync with your Apple Watch. Start with two weeks free — then $15 NZD a month, cancel any time.

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