How to get started with Lactate Training

Your first five minutes decide how good your coach is. Do these steps in order.

Step by step

1. Download the app and create an account with your email.
2. Your 30-day free trial starts by itself. There's no card needed and nothing to cancel.
3. Tap the gear icon to open Settings. Set Km / Miles first. This one switch controls the whole app and your coach: analyses, plans and paces all follow it.
4. In Settings, tap Switch Language if you want another language. The app and your coach's replies both change.
5. Fill in the Performance Questionnaire. This tells your coach who you are.
6. Connect your Garmin or Strava.
7. Turn on the Learn LT checklist in Settings. It lists things worth trying, ticks itself off as you do them, and Show me takes you straight to each one.

Try this

Where it goes wrong

• Skipping the questionnaire. The app still works, but your coach is guessing. Ten minutes here is the biggest upgrade you can give it.
• Setting miles or km in the wrong place. Settings is the master switch. If paces ever look odd, check Settings first. It's almost always a unit setting, not lost data.
• “I've lost my subscription” on a new phone. You haven't. Tap Restore purchases in Settings and it finds what you already paid for.
• Expecting magic on day one. Your coach gets smarter every time you check in, answer a Grill me or correct it. Week three feels very different from day one.

Check it worked

• Paces show in the units you want.
• Your questionnaire is filled in.
• Your latest session has arrived in the bell.