I may have fist pumped while holding back tears. This is why we’re in it.
In, and bumping with a unsolicited testimonial.
This app and your Youtube videos last year were the first ‘aha’ moments I’ve had in tri in a long time. I think I’m 32 or 33 Ironmans into this game, and was pretty confident that I had covered off any personal blind spots in training and racing that could be covered off. Alacrity/Saturday, and the** two-part Youtube vids on restricted eating**, precipitated a huge change in my training mindset, beliefs and behaviours. (and you have no idea how surprising it is to a 50+ year old athlete to experience a “huge change” in anything, anywhere) Keep up the great work.
Totally agree with respect to those two vids. All of them really, but there is something immensely valuable about Michelle’s open and honest personal sharing in those two. It has really made me (as another 50+ Male, lifelong athlete) stop and think about my own behaviors. Particularly, as I sit here mid-way through trying to lose 30 lbs (15 down, 15 to go).
See above fist pumping and sobbing. Michelle and I have received countless others from younger men and women on other platforms. I knew the videos needed to be made. I knew they were important. But it really didn’t hit home until we started hearing other people’s stories.
Hearing how the app has granted some folks a feeling of license to fuel adequately, for the first time in their lives, man that’s an amazing thing.
Juat downloaded it. Looks great.
Used the app yesterday for a 4.5 hr ride and it went great. I just used the speed nectar and the tase was fine. One small thing was I used 74 fl oz of water and I have different size water bottles so I had to do a lot of math to figure out how much sugar and salt to put in each. It would be cool if you could plug in how many water bottles and the size you will be using so it automatically calculates this. Maybe there is a better way than the way I did it lol
I agree with your comment! It would also be great to be able to set the small paper cups given at races as containers.
yeah I second this- would be useful to know how much of each to put in each bottle instead of having to find a massive bottle to mix everything in. Otherwise really liking the app- makes it super convinient + have been feeling great after sessions as a reult of fuelling & drinking properly.
For one more data point, for a sprint Tri I did a couple weekends ago, I had a single 1L bottle with water, 250g carb (50g gatorade/200g table sugar), 2tsp sodium citrate, 400mg caffeine. I poured half in my 500ml Elite crono bottle and drank most of the other half in the 15min prior to the swim start. I nearly finished (maybe 50ml remaining) the 500ml bottle by the end of the bike leg and went on to the run with no water or nutrition. Maybe it was the fueling strategy, maybe it was adrenaline, maybe both, but I PR’d that 5k run by 4 minutes.
Also, more proof that you can take 250g of carbs in an hour and survive.
We are going to bump up water bottle distribution and fuel carriage options in our development pipeline. Appreciate all the feedback here! Please keep it coming.
Edit to add: I intended this as a reply to many of the recent posts, not just yours! Awesome to hear your experience and major congrats!
We are going to bump up water bottle distribution and fuel carriage options in our development pipeline. Appreciate all the feedback here! Please keep it coming.
Edit to add: I intended this as a reply to many of the recent posts, not just yours! Awesome to hear your experience and major congrats!
I’m really enjoying testing the app. I find it’s helping me carry only what I need and not what I think I will need, without any decline in performance so far.
That’s fantastic. Really glad to hear that.
If you are an iOS user and you are experiencing any weirdness around trying to subscribe, please let me know.
We’re actively working on solving this subscription issue tonight.
Thanks for the awesome app Dr Harrison and Michelle! My partner and I have both been using it to train for ironman/ultra distance tri and so far it’s been great! We’ve only just started, but I can see this is going to be a game changer for those 6+hour workouts!
2 features/fixes that I’d like to suggest, if it helps!
Swim: I’m not sure what the speed default is set to to calculate the time, but when I enter distance, it way overestimates the amount of time (ex: for 2500m it says 1:20). Right now I just enter whatever distance gives me an hour, but could we have an option to enter time rather than distance, like for cycling or running? I feel like some sort of reminder to check in after would be useful, as well as additional metrics to track afterwards. Something to enter what you actually did consume vs what was prescribed, maybe a percentage (95% of planned nutrition consumed, showing your totals for water salt and sugar), charting it against the feeling emoji, so we can start to notice patterns (ooh look, the days where I finished my bottles I had more positive emojis, etc.) Maybe this is already in the works, but I would find that very useful!
Our free trial is ending soon and we’ll be signing up for sure!
If you are an iOS user and you are experiencing any weirdness around trying to subscribe, please let me know.
We’re actively working on solving this subscription issue tonight.
I was on the Alacrity FUEL build on testflight and the build has been removed. Is there a new signup to be pushed the latest version?
Thanks for the awesome app Dr Harisson and Michelle! My partner and I have both been using it to train for ironman/ultra distance tri and so far it’s been great!
Swim: I’m not sure what the speed default is set to to calculate the time, but when I enter distance, it way overestimates the amount of time (ex: for 2500m it says 1:20). Right now I just enter whatever distance gives me an hour, but could we have an option to enter time rather than distance, like for cycling or running?
Your wish is my command.
I feel like some sort of reminder to check in after would be useful, as well as additional metrics to track afterwards. Something to enter what you actually did consume vs what was prescribed, maybe a percentage (95% of planned nutrition consumed, showing your totals for water salt and sugar), charting it against the feeling emoji, so we can start to notice patterns (ooh look, the days where I finished my bottles I had more positive emojis, etc.) Maybe this is already in the works, but I would find that very useful! Our free trial is ending soon and we’ll be signing up for sure!
Your wish is my command, again!
Yep both of these are in the works. I so appreciate your patience while we work on it. Please keep the ideas coming.
If you are an iOS user and you are experiencing any weirdness around trying to subscribe, please let me know.
We’re actively working on solving this subscription issue tonight.
I was on the Alacrity FUEL build on testflight and the build has been removed. Is there a new signup to be pushed the latest version?
Thank you for speaking up, here. I think there are more folks in your position.
“Saturday” is the new app name. Download it below.
Saturday: Pro Fuel & Hydration is the full app name but most people (us too!) just call it **Saturday. **Saturday Morning LLC replaced Alacrity Endurance LLC. We just found that the other business and app names we were using were too hard to really “get behind” and certainly too hard to design and brand together. So we though hard about long-term company vision and what our users wanted to experience, and how we wanted to serve them. Saturday (the app) and Saturday Morning (the company name), pretty much sum it up. Nothing like the opportunity and energy of going long on Saturday, or prepping for a Sunday race on Saturday.
**iOS **app download page:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/saturday-pro-fuel-hydration/id6444738746
**Android **Saturday app download page:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fit.saturday.hydration.gx.fuel
(ps. if you were formerly a “FUEL” user or “Alacrity FUEL” beta tester, you will need to download Saturday. We incorporated a bunch more personalization and new features and we think you’ll think it’s worth it once you see it. I am really sorry for the inconvenience to some of our earliest beta testers and if you feel like that wasn’t the best route to go once you get it downloaded, I hope that you’ll share that with us. We always want the most frank opinions.)
It’d be great if you highlighted assumptions being made and values that are calculated:
It would also be useful if you had optional inputs for assumptions. Many people know their FTP, Sweat Rate(s), etc. The app could also “learn” with a retro-spective analysis by helping athletes determine sweat rate for their ride.
E.g.
- App has my weight, rough fitness (although, I don’t know what “Advanced” truly means), etc.
- App asks how long I’m riding
- App asks ride intensity (sometimes this is hard to judge)
- App checks the weather
Out of this multiple assumptions occur:
- Workload
- Caloric Expenditure
- Substrate Utilization
- Sweat Rate
- Sweat composition
Fantastic feedback. We are planning retrospective feedback-based analysis and future nutrition output adjustments.
We will definitely incorporate more advanced data usage and analytics in the future. The algorithms are already ready for that. We took a slightly different route than most tech because I think it’s somewhat needed in this space. Most sport tech caters to super users first, and sometimes gets stuck never leaving the super user. We wanted to bring solid science to my mother in law (who runs, sometimes. but who does not “do” apps) Our first goal was to make an app that ANYONE could get professional recommendations from.
Our second goal (of course, because Michelle and I have been elite athletes in some form or another) is to allow super users and elite athletes (and everyone in between) to enter loads of specific quantitative details. We’ll soon have it just sync it from their various platforms they already use.
I’m glad to hear that you’re desires are in line with where we’re planning to go. That kind of feedback has been very humbling and gratifying to receive. Of course, please continue to hit us with all the thoughts!
Make the leap from Fuel to Saturday and my account came across with no issues.
For the personal best page, is 100yd swim the only option? The numerical entry field keypad never goes away if there is supposed to be a next button at the bottom of the page. Related, does the performance data change anything or just a nice to have tracking metric?
Make the leap from Fuel to Saturday and my account came across with no issues. Hmmm… we may actually need to troubleshoot here because that should not happen. There is a newer more detailed onboarding that helps us set up your initial user settings better than the old version.
For now the performance-data (if you mean the notes and activity ratings after-the-fact) is a nice-to-have but will probably help modify fueling recommendations in the future, if that’s what you mean.
Yep, for now the 100yd swim is the only PR entry and just helps estimate swim workout duration. Soon you’ll be able to input either/or (duration or distance and we’ll predict duration for you).
The numerical entry field keypad never goes away if there is supposed to be a next button at the bottom of the page. Hmm… go back to your app store on your phone and check for updates. That issue was part of an earlier version. Let me know what version you’re on. For more reliable/faster help, and up-to-date info, we can also chat on Saturday Member Hub if you want. It does require another account but login is pretty easy.
Holy cow I was thinking kind of along these lines this morning! If we have a prescribed workout, we know what the intensity factor target should be (or what the average power target is), as well as the duration. With these we can calculate the kJ output for the whole ride and maybe even changing conditions along the way to get prompted to eat/drink more or less often. I’m pretty good with the workload part of this calculation but it seems to get messy for the other side (fueling)…the Saturday app is helping me along though.
Rich