Author: Christophe Roosen
Christophe Roosen is the co-founder and coach of Trenara. Runs a marathon in 2:33:34. Follow him on IG @chroosen.
We’ve gone through an incredibly exciting period, and we’re finally able to share the news with all of you: thanks to the trust of LRM, KBC, and VLAIO, we’ve gathered €500,000 in resources to fuel our growth.
Strength training
Strength training
Strength training at an Olympic level? With Peak Pro, that’s effectively possible, as Maarten Thysen is your strength trainer. If you want to excel as a runner, just running is not enough. Strength is a necessary component to make your body resilient.
Because we strongly believe in the combination of strength and running, we collaborated with Maarten (strength trainer and physiotherapist for athletes like Bart Swings, the Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Athletics Federation) to introduce this into Trenara. Completely tailored to you, thanks to tests for each muscle...
Introducing strength training.
To become the best version of yourself, we introduce our biggest feature ever. With strength training, we delivered a gem, if we say so ourselves, and that’s all thanks to the subject matter expert, Maarten Thysen – S&C coach and physiotherapist of Olympic Champions. So, what does this new feature entail? Here’s an explanation in 3 points.
Reps counter, an extra graph layer, new margins and improving the planning of intermediate goals.
Happy to introduce some new bells and whistles to the app! These developments were implemented the last couple of weeks, concluded with a new app version last weekend. I’ll tell you all about it.
Making a giant leap: introducing strength training.
Various blog posts took you along on our UX-journey to redesign the app. And while we’re not done yet, I think it’s time to take a deep dive in what will be the first very concrete update of your customer journey.
The need for an app menu
Our design as-is was radical: a dark theme (long before it was trendy) and no bottom menu. The theme stood the test of time – I’d like to think. But the lack of a bottom menu… not so.
New foundations for Trenara
So, there was an online questionnaire and a workshop with our users. In addition, I’ve had a lot of ‘brainstorming sessions’ with Shana, our (external) strategic expert. We also mapped user needs, defined current UX-misfits, drew new flows, … In short: we are ready to build new foundations.