Therabody recently announced a strategic relationship with smartwatch provider Garmin to bring smarter recovery solutions to athletes to help better understand the ways recovery positively impacts human performance. This marks the beginning of a journey to expand product experiences and conduct scientific research, making it easy to integrate recovery through Therabody products into any routine and offering customers the most effective, science-backed recovery solutions on the market.
Garmin has engineered cutting-edge sensors that measure a wide range of data, including heart rate, sleep and physical activity. By leveraging this data and their proprietary algorithms, Garmin smartwatches can provide insights into stress levels, Body Battery energy levels and overall cardiovascular performance. Therabody scientists will leverage this data to measure the impact of recovery on athletic performance, including how Therabody products and routines affect positive outcomes.
AI-Powered Personalized Recovery
Alongside the Garmin collaboration announcement, Therabody is launching their Beta version of an AI-powered digital recovery platform, Coach by Therabody. Residing in the Therabody app, Coach by Therabody is designed to continuously analyze health and activity data alongside user provided goals to offer tailored recovery recommendations developed by sports scientists and performance professionals. By collecting data from Garmin smartwatches along with popular platforms like Apple, Google, and Strava, Coach by Therabody offers a seamless and personalized recovery experience in real time, helping achieve their performance goals more effectively.
Coach by Therabody interprets wearables data, integrates user feedback, and connects with Therabody products, beginning today with Theragun, to offer reminders and custom recommendations that support athletic performance and general wellbeing. “It’s important to note that Therabody is not doing AI for AI’s sake," says Therabody CMO, John Solomon. “As with all our products, we looked at how AI could solve a problem for our consumers. And over time, feeding it with the rich data from Garmin will allow us to really understand how recovery impacts performance at a scale that’s not been achievable until now."