[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":105},["ShallowReactive",2],{"docs-index-en":3,"doc-en-languages-and-units":76},[4,19,36,48,64],{"id":5,"title":6,"docs":7},"getting-started","Getting started",[8,14],{"slug":9,"title":10,"description":11,"order":12,"lastReviewed":13},"how-youb-works","How YOUB Works","YOUB is an AI endurance coach in a chat that builds your training plan, sends it to your watch and calendar, and adapts it to the training you actually do.",1,"2026-10-14",{"slug":15,"title":16,"description":17,"order":18,"lastReviewed":13},"languages-and-units","Languages and Units","The YOUB app is available in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish, the coach writes in any Latin-script language, and units are metric or imperial.",2,{"id":20,"title":21,"docs":22},"connecting","Connecting your data",[23,27,31],{"slug":24,"title":25,"description":26,"order":12,"lastReviewed":13},"wearables","Supported Wearables and Apps","YOUB connects to Garmin, COROS, Polar, Suunto, Wahoo, Apple Health, Strava, Whoop, Oura and more to bring in your activities, sleep and recovery.",{"slug":28,"title":29,"description":30,"order":18,"lastReviewed":13},"workout-export","Planned Workouts on Your Watch","YOUB sends the planned sessions of the next three days as structured workouts to Garmin, Wahoo, Suunto and the Hammerhead Karoo.",{"slug":32,"title":33,"description":34,"order":35,"lastReviewed":13},"whatsapp","Coaching over WhatsApp","Chat with the YOUB coach on WhatsApp in the same conversation as the app, after verifying your phone number in the app settings.",3,{"id":37,"title":38,"docs":39},"training","Training and the plan",[40,44],{"slug":41,"title":42,"description":43,"order":12,"lastReviewed":13},"training-plans","Training Plans","The coach builds your training plan in the chat from real sessions that go live at once, with targets from your own zones and phases toward your goal.",{"slug":45,"title":46,"description":47,"order":18,"lastReviewed":13},"plan-adaptation","How the Coach Adapts Your Plan","The coach proposes changes to your plan when your week, recovery or health changes. Your plan only changes in the chat, where you see and agree to it.",{"id":49,"title":50,"docs":51},"metrics","Metrics and science",[52,56,60],{"slug":53,"title":54,"description":55,"order":12,"lastReviewed":13},"training-load","How YOUB Calculates Training Load","YOUB scores every session so that one hour at your threshold equals a Load Score of 100, using power, pace or heart rate depending on the sport.",{"slug":57,"title":58,"description":59,"order":18,"lastReviewed":13},"fitness-fatigue-form","Fitness, Fatigue and Form","Fitness base is your 42-day training load, Recent load your one-week load, and Freshness the difference between them, projected forward from your plan.",{"slug":61,"title":62,"description":63,"order":35,"lastReviewed":13},"threshold-detection","Automatic Threshold Detection","YOUB detects your cycling FTP and running threshold pace from the hard efforts in your last 42 days of training, without a test protocol.",{"id":65,"title":66,"docs":67},"account","Account, pricing and privacy",[68,72],{"slug":69,"title":70,"description":71,"order":12,"lastReviewed":13},"pricing","Pricing, Free Trial and Subscription","Everything in YOUB except talking to the coach is free; the coach subscription starts with a free trial of up to 4 weeks, depending on usage.",{"slug":73,"title":74,"description":75,"order":18,"lastReviewed":13},"privacy-and-data","Your Data, Privacy and Deletion","What YOUB reads from your devices and calendars, what it writes back, where your data is stored, and how to disconnect a provider or delete your account.",{"slug":15,"title":16,"description":17,"lastReviewed":13,"section":5,"order":18,"html":77,"toc":78,"related":97},"\u003Cp>The YOUB app is available in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. The coach writes to you in the language you chose for the app, or in your phone's language if you never chose one, and it can switch to another language when you ask it to: any language written in the Latin alphabet works. Distances, speeds and elevation show in metric or imperial units. You pick both under \u003Cstrong>Settings > Appearance\u003C/strong>.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"app-languages\">App Languages\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>The app's own screens, buttons and fixed texts are available in five languages:\u003C/p>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"docs-table\">\n\u003Ctable>\n\u003Cthead>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Cth>Language\u003C/th>\n\u003Cth>In the language picker\u003C/th>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003C/thead>\n\u003Ctbody>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>English\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>English\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>German\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Deutsch\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>French\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Français\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Italian\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Italiano\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>Spanish\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>Español\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003C/tbody>\n\u003C/table>\n\u003C/div>\n\u003Cp>On first start the app follows your phone's language. If your phone is set to a language the app does not offer, the app shows English. To change the app language, open \u003Cstrong>Settings > Appearance\u003C/strong> and pick a language under \u003Cstrong>Language\u003C/strong>. The app switches right away.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"the-coachs-language\">The Coach's Language\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>The coach's messages are not limited to the five app languages. The coach writes in one language for your whole conversation, chosen in this order:\u003C/p>\n\u003Col>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>The language you asked the coach to use\u003C/strong>, or the language you picked under \u003Cstrong>Settings > Appearance > Language\u003C/strong>. Whichever you set last applies.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Your phone's language\u003C/strong>, when you never chose one. A phone set to Portuguese gets a coach writing Portuguese, even though the app's own screens are in English.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ol>\n\u003Cp>The same language applies everywhere the coach writes: in the app chat, over WhatsApp, and in the coach's own messages such as the morning check-in or the message after an activity.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3 id=\"asking-the-coach-to-speak-another-language\">Asking the Coach to Speak Another Language\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>To change the coach's language, ask in the chat, for example "Please write to me in Dutch from now on" or "Parla italiano con me". The coach stores the language and sticks to it in every later conversation until you change it again, by asking for a different language or by picking a language under \u003Cstrong>Settings > Appearance\u003C/strong>.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>The coach does not change its language just because you write one message in another language. When your coach writes English and you send one message in German, the coach keeps answering in English; asking "please answer in German" changes the language for good.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3 id=\"which-languages-the-coach-writes\">Which Languages the Coach Writes\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>The coach writes in any language that uses the Latin alphabet, for example Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Swedish or Turkish, in addition to the five app languages. For languages written in another script, such as Greek, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese or Korean, the coach answers in English. When you ask for such a language, the coach tells you that it will keep writing in English.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Proper names, place names and the titles of your activities stay as they are, whatever language the coach writes in.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"units\">Units\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>YOUB shows distances, speeds and elevation in one of two unit systems:\u003C/p>\n\u003Cdiv class=\"docs-table\">\n\u003Ctable>\n\u003Cthead>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Cth>Setting\u003C/th>\n\u003Cth>Units\u003C/th>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003C/thead>\n\u003Ctbody>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>\u003Cstrong>Metric\u003C/strong>\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>km · m · km/h\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd>\u003Cstrong>Imperial\u003C/strong>\u003C/td>\n\u003Ctd>mi · ft · mph\u003C/td>\n\u003C/tr>\n\u003C/tbody>\n\u003C/table>\n\u003C/div>\n\u003Cp>The default comes from the region of your language setting: accounts with a US region (for example US English or US Spanish) start with imperial units, all others with metric. To change it, open \u003Cstrong>Settings > Appearance\u003C/strong> and pick \u003Cstrong>Metric\u003C/strong> or \u003Cstrong>Imperial\u003C/strong> under \u003Cstrong>Units\u003C/strong>. Once you pick one, your choice stays, independent of your language.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>The unit setting changes only how values are displayed. YOUB stores every value in metric units, so switching back and forth never changes or rounds your data.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"voice-messages\">Voice Messages\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>You can send the coach voice messages in the app and over WhatsApp. A voice message is transcribed in the language you speak in, and the coach answers it in writing, in its usual language.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>The coach also speaks to you while you record a session with the YOUB app, in your app language (see \u003Ca href=\"#audio-cues-while-you-record\">Audio Cues While You Record\u003C/a>).\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"audio-cues-while-you-record\">Audio Cues While You Record\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>When you record a run, walk or ride with your phone in the YOUB app, the coach speaks short audio cues in your ear:\u003C/p>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>Completed kilometres are announced.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>The start, a pause, the resume, a weak or returning GPS signal and the finish are announced.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>When you record a planned session with one steady target pace, the coach tells you whether you are on pace, slightly or clearly too fast, or slightly or clearly too slow. Structured sessions such as intervals get the kilometre and status cues, without pace cues.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Before a planned session, the coach gives a short spoken briefing about the session, written for you from the plan and your recent training. The briefing also appears as text on the recording screen.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003Cp>The audio cues are available in the five app languages: English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. The cues follow the same language setting as the coach (your choice under \u003Cstrong>Settings > Appearance > Language\u003C/strong>, otherwise your phone's language). When that language is not one of the five, the cues are spoken in English. The splits are always announced per kilometre, whatever your unit setting.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Audio cues are on by default. The recording screen has a button to mute and unmute the coach during the session; your recording continues either way.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"related\">Related\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"/en/docs/how-youb-works/\">How YOUB Works\u003C/a>: the coaching loop from goal to plan to analysis.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"/en/docs/whatsapp/\">WhatsApp\u003C/a>: coaching over WhatsApp, in the same language as the app chat.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Ca href=\"/en/faq/\">FAQ\u003C/a>: short answers to common questions.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n",[79,82,85,88,91,94],{"id":80,"text":81},"app-languages","App Languages",{"id":83,"text":84},"the-coachs-language","The Coach's Language",{"id":86,"text":87},"units","Units",{"id":89,"text":90},"voice-messages","Voice Messages",{"id":92,"text":93},"audio-cues-while-you-record","Audio Cues While You Record",{"id":95,"text":96},"related","Related",[98,100,102],{"label":10,"href":99},"/en/docs/how-youb-works/",{"label":33,"href":101},"/en/docs/whatsapp/",{"label":103,"href":104},"FAQ","/en/faq/",1792358250308]