Stride: Return to Run AI Coach

AI coaching is no longer Pro-only. Watch a short video and today's run suggestion explains itself: why this session, why now. Your plan is always free to see.

Cleared to run again after ACL or meniscus surgery? Stride tells you whether that twinge means keep going or back off.

Works for any return-to-run rehab: knee, hip, hamstring, calf, Achilles, shin, foot, ankle or back. Surgical or not. Every prompt, chart, and coaching call speaks to the area you're rehabbing.

Push too hard and you risk a setback. Hold back and you lose fitness for nothing. Stride takes the guesswork out of your comeback with an adaptive run/walk ladder, PT exercise tracking, a daily symptom journal, and an AI coach that reads your data.

CONSERVATIVE UNTIL A CLINICIAN SAYS OTHERWISE Tell Stride whether you've been cleared to run. Until you have, it holds your plan back and won't recommend progressing your load, because "the app said I was ready" isn't a conversation you want with your surgeon. Your journal and exercises work either way.

TODAY'S SESSION, ALREADY DECIDED Open the app and your next run is waiting: the exact intervals, the sets, the reason behind them. A 22-step ladder carries you from short run/walk intervals through to continuous running, advancing only when your recent sessions and symptom scores say you've earned it, and easing off when they don't. Audio and haptic cues call every interval switch, so your eyes stay on the road.

AI COACHING WITHOUT PAYING Your session is never behind anything. The coaching behind it — why this session, why today, what your scores changed — is one short video away, once a day, free. Pro skips the video and reads a fuller picture with a more capable model.

DAILY SYMPTOM JOURNAL Log a quick check-in each morning, after runs and in the evening. Rate your pain, tag symptoms like swelling or stiffness, and note which areas are involved. Fifteen seconds, and it builds a real record of how your body responds, not how you remember it.

IT KNOWS WHAT YOU RUN ON Treadmill, road and trail load a healing injury differently. Stride records the surface behind every run and watches how your symptoms respond. Pro works you toward the surface you're training for, starting a first road or trail outing shorter, because new ground is its own load.

A WEEKLY READ ON YOUR DATA Once a week your Pro coach reviews the fortnight: how your symptom scores and training load moved together, which patterns are worth raising with your PT, and whether a surface is costing you.

BUILT FOR YOUR PT, NOT INSTEAD OF THEM Log the strength and mobility exercises your PT prescribed, grouped into workouts with weekly targets. Then generate a report covering your check-ins, training load, exercise compliance, which ladder steps you trained at, and the surfaces you ran on, so your next appointment starts with data instead of "it's been fine, mostly."

AUTO-IMPORT FROM APPLE HEALTH Connect Apple Health (Garmin works too, via Health) to import runs, walks, hikes and rides automatically. Stride spots sync gaps and offers to fill them.

YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR PHONE Stride is local-first: your symptom scores, notes and training history live on your device, never uploaded to a Stride server. Export a full backup anytime and restore it on a new phone.

WHAT'S IN STRIDE PRO The ladder, journal, PT exercises and Apple Health import are free, and so is your daily AI read, once a day, after a short video. Pro removes the videos and the ads, upgrades that coaching to a better model, and adds surface progression, the weekly reflection and PT reports.

Stride is a training and tracking tool, not a medical device. Always follow your clinician's guidance.

Stride Pro is an auto-renewing subscription: Monthly ($4.99/month) or Yearly ($39.99/year). Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings.

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