Vertical
Adaptive AI running coach that reads your Garmin data and actually listens: asks how sessions felt, understands what’s going on in your life, and adjusts your training plan around the full picture.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
Features
- Cycling
- Running
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Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
Subscription that costs $25 per month + free version with limited functionality.Alternatives
1 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
What is Vertical?
Train with a science-based coach that adapts to you. Built on modern training science and decades of real-world experience, Vertical learns from your training and recovery data, understands how you respond, and adjusts your plan before problems start.
We built Vertical on a foundation of 200+ peer-reviewed papers covering periodization, recovery, injury prevention, and more — curated by coaches who've worked with athletes from first-time 5K runners to world champions. Every decision your coach makes combines modern training science with real coaching experience, applied to your level.
HOW IT WORKS
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It starts with a conversation. Connect your wearable data, then talk to your coach. Goals, schedule, injury history — the things a watch can't measure. Data plus dialogue gives your coach a complete picture of who you are.
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It builds a plan with you. Draft a plan, talk it through, reshape it. Move your long run, ask why, skip a day. It's a conversation, not a prescription.
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Every workout, your way. Paces, zones, structure but flexible. Swap days, shorten a run. Your coach reshuffles everything.
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After every run, your coach is there. Reads the data, tells you how it went, and adjusts what comes next. Mention a niggle and the next two weeks rewrite themselves.
WHAT MAKES VERTICAL DIFFERENT
- You never fail a Vertical plan. It just adapts. Missed a run? Changed your schedule? Your plan rewrites itself around what actually happened.
- 50 metrics on your wrist, finally understood. HRV, sleep, training load, recovery: your coach reads it all and explains what matters in plain language.
- The science exists. Now it's applied to you. Periodisation, load management, recovery protocols: all well established, now personalised to your training.
- Your watch knows your heart rate. Your coach knows you. Context, goals, how you're feeling: the things data alone can't capture.
INTEGRATIONS
Connect your Garmin for full workout history and health metrics. Strava, Apple Health, and Wahoo support coming soon.
PRICING
Free assessment — connect your watch, get a full training analysis with 200+ data points in 3 minutes. No credit card.
Vertical PRO — full coaching with unlimited conversations, daily HRV-aware plan adjustments, post-run debriefs, and race readiness coaching.
You never fail a Vertical plan. It just adapts.
