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Built for how ambitious amateurs actually train, ride, race, recover and live.

Download on the App Store Free for 14 days.
Works with
Wahoo Hammerhead Health Garmin Coming soon* Strava Coming soon*

* Garmin and Strava have to approve apps like Torque before we can connect to them directly. Both reviews are in progress. Until then, Garmin rides reach Torque through Apple Health. We hope to connect both soon.

A rider on a white Colnago on a coast road, the sea behind him

You're not a pro.

Train like an amateur.

am·a·teur /ˈæm.ə.tər/ noun
From the Latin amator, a lover, and amare, to love.
Someone who does a thing because they love it.
What we believe

What works on 25 hours a week doesn't work on 6.

Most training advice is written for pros who ride 25 hours a week. Most amateurs who train ride about 6 to 10. Tell Torque the days you can ride and for how long, and change them any week.

The plan flow's Goals step with An event picked: a race or sportive with a date, Add event, and the season break

Train for what's next, whatever it is.

La Marmotte or the club's Sunday race: pick the date, and the plan builds toward it so you're fresh on the day. No event in mind? It keeps you getting fitter.

A few kinds of session cover almost everything.

You don't need dozens of complex workouts. Torque picks today's session for you and gives you the power to ride at. If you want something else, choose another from the list.

Today's session, 2 × 20 threshold: 1 h 17 min, what it is for, its blocks in watts and heart rate, and Ride indoors
Progress: Readiness, Fatigue, Load and FTP tiles

Two hard sessions a week do most of the work.

On a few hours a week, the hard sessions are what make you faster. The easy days let you recover, so you are fresh for the hard ones.

Every ride counts. No judging.

Club rides, commutes and short rides all count toward your fitness. Miss a day and Torque doesn't judge: it adjusts the week and helps you keep going.

A ride: route, figures and the plain read
How it works

How Torque plans your week.

Set a goal. Ride the sessions. Torque keeps the plan right as your weeks change.

  1. Someone choosing a goal in Torque at a café table: what are you training for?
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    What are you training for?

    An event, a winter base, a kind of rider you want to become, or just getting fitter. Torque builds the plan around it.

  2. A rider at a café table looking at the coming weeks in Torque, each session a circle
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    See the weeks ahead

    Every session for the coming weeks. Each circle is a session and its load.

  3. A phone leaning on a coffee cup on the kitchen counter, showing today's session in Torque: sweet spot 3 × 10
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    Ride the session

    Each session has its time, its power in watts and its heart rate. Ride it outside, or indoors on your trainer.

What you get

See what your riding is doing.

Are you on track?

Fitness climbing, holding or slipping, and when you're carrying too much fatigue.

A rider alone on a road between fields, moving fast
Fitness 58, up 5 in 7 days, building, with the line since August

Are you on track?

Torque tells you if your fitness is climbing, holding or slipping, and when you're carrying too much fatigue.

A rider alone on a road between fields, moving fast
Fitness 58, up 5 in 7 days, building: ride over 410 TSS a week to keep climbing. The line since August, the peak of 71 on 5 July and the low of 48 on 12 September
Fatigue +17, high, over the last 4 weeks
Your Progress note: you're on track, your fitness is higher than 4 weeks ago. 17 rides and 26 hours in the last 4 weeks. 3 rides this week, riding 8 weeks in a row

A plain-language read of every ride.

After every ride, a short note on what it did for your fitness.

New best · 5 min · 348 WRiders at an outdoor table outside a bakery
Saturday · 1 h 15 min

A steady ride. You finished stronger than you started.

It built your aerobic base, and your fitness went up a little.

A plain-language read of every ride.

After every ride, a short note on what it did for your fitness.

Riders at an outdoor table outside a bakery, bikes against the window
Saturday · 1 h 15 min

A steady ride. You finished stronger than you started.

It built your aerobic base, and your fitness went up a little.

New best · 5 min · 348 W

Never do an FTP test again.

Torque estimates your FTP from your rides.

One rider on a gravel track through a beech wood
FTP 310 W, a new high: your rides point to 324 W
FTP 310 W, steady

Never do an FTP test again.

Torque estimates your FTP from your rides, so every session is set at the right power.

One rider on a gravel track through a beech wood
FTP 310 W, a new high: your rides point to 324 W. Keep 310 W or use 324 W
FTP 310 W, steady, from November to October

Your rides in your calendar.

Your sessions sit next to work and family events.

Moved to Sat 08:00Riders standing over their bikes in a car park
Thursday
09:00Team meeting
18:005 × 8 threshold
Calendar clash

Team meeting at 17:30 clashes with tomorrow's 5 × 8 threshold, and nothing else that day is free. Move it to Saturday at 08:00?

Your rides in your calendar.

Your sessions sit next to work and family events.

Riders standing over their bikes in a car park after the ride
Thursday
09:00Team meeting
17:30Stand-up
18:005 × 8 threshold
Calendar clash

Team meeting at 17:30 clashes with tomorrow's 5 × 8 threshold, and nothing else that day is free. Move it to Saturday at 08:00?

Moved to Sat 08:00

Hard sessions when you're fresh.

Sleep and HRV from your watch decide when to go hard and when to go easy.

A group of riders in a line on a straight country road
Readiness 6.5 out of 10, normal: train as planned
Each morning for the last 30 days against your normal

Hard sessions when you're fresh.

With an Apple Watch or a sleep tracker, Torque tells you when to go hard and when to keep it easy.

A group of riders in a line on a straight country road
Readiness 6.5 out of 10, normal: your body has recovered as usual, train as planned
Each morning for the last 30 days: 14 inside your normal, 11 below, 5 above
Features

Change any part of the plan.

Sick this week
Moved 3 sessions to next week
Legs feel dead today
Today's intervals are now an easy ride

Something came up? Tell Torque.

Type it in your own words, like “sick this week” or “legs feel dead today”. Torque changes the plan and tells you what it moved.

Time 1 h 17 min and Load 85 TSS, each with minus and plus

Short on time?

Change the time and Torque makes today's ride shorter or longer to fit.

Alternatives: 5 × 8, 3 × 12 or 4 × 10 threshold, or all workouts

Don't fancy today's session?

Swap it for another that trains the same thing.

A rider in MAAP kit on a blue Cervélo, on a road between fields

Just want to ride?

Add a free ride: the club ride, or a ride with no targets. It counts like any other ride.

M T W T F S S

Away for a week?

The plan works around it.

Build your own workouts.

Make a workout from scratch. The plan uses it on the right days: hard ones on hard days, easy ones on easy days.

A rider on a Specialized gravel bike on a sandy track through heather

You're a diesel.

Your rider profile, from your last 90 days of riding.

Ride now: sensors, 2 connected; effort 100%; ERG on, the trainer holds the target

Ride indoors with your sensors.

Connect a smart trainer, power meter and heart rate strap over Bluetooth. With ERG on, the trainer holds the watts for you.

Today 5 × 8 threshold 75 min · 285–300 W

On your lock screen.

Today's session, with its time and power, without opening the app.

Who makes it

Made by riders, for riders.

Torque is built by a few amateur cyclists who wanted a coach's plan without paying for a coach. We train with it ourselves, every week, and what doesn't work on the bike gets changed.

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Pricing

One plan, everything included.

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Free for 14 days.

Every feature from day one. No card to start, and nothing is charged unless you subscribe.

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$6.67 / month$79.99 billed once a year
FAQ

Common questions about Torque.

Do I need a power meter?

Torque is best with one: your sessions come in watts and your FTP is estimated from your rides. It works without one too: every session is set in heart rate from your own rides.

Which apps and devices work with Torque?

Hammerhead and Wahoo connect directly. Apple Health brings in rides, sleep and HRV, which is also how Garmin rides arrive for now. Direct Strava and Garmin connections are coming soon, once their reviews are done. Torque is an iPhone app.

Am I fast enough for Torque?

If you ride and want to get faster, yes. Torque starts from your own rides, so the plan starts at your current fitness.

How many hours a week do I need?

As many as you have. Studies of amateur cyclists who train put most of them at about 6 to 10 hours a week (2024, 2023). Torque plans around the days and hours you give it, and you can change them any week.

Does an AI make my plan?

No. Your plan is built by tested coaching rules, the same way every time. AI does two things: it turns what you tell Torque, like “sick this week”, into changes to the plan, and it writes the short notes you read after each ride.

Is Torque social?

No. There's no feed, no kudos and no leaderboard. Your progress is measured against your own riding, not anyone else's.

What happens to my data?

It's used to run your training and nothing else. It's never sold or shared with other riders. The privacy policy has the details.

When can I get it?

Torque is in testing now. Leave your email and you'll hear the day it's on the App Store.

Something else?

Write to us. One of the riders behind Torque will answer.

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Built for how ambitious amateurs actually train, ride, race, recover and live.

Download on the App Store

Free for 14 days.