On 22 July 2026, Garmin announced the acquisition of the training platforms TrainingPeaks and TrainHeroic from Peaksware Holdings. Around 120 employees join Garmin, financial terms were not disclosed.
What the acquisition means
For more than two decades, TrainingPeaks was the largest manufacturer-independent platform for structured endurance training. With this acquisition it now belongs to a device manufacturer. That is, first of all, a sober observation and not a reason for alarm. Nobody knows today what Garmin plans for TrainingPeaks in the long run.
Still, something fundamental changes. If you wear a Coros, Suunto, Polar or Wahoo watch, or coach a mixed fleet of devices, you are now entrusting your training planning to a platform whose owner competes with exactly these manufacturers. Whether all integrations will be maintained equally in the long run is no longer in the hands of the platform itself.
The industry has seen this play out before. Today's Plan was shut down completely in March 2024 after being acquired by Zwift. We witnessed up close what that felt like for the athletes and coaches affected.
Today's Plan is being closed down. Is Tredict your alternative?
Independence and no lock-in
The clearest example is sending planned workouts to a watch. A training platform pushes your structured sessions straight onto your device, even when it is another manufacturer's watch. That is write access to a competitor's hardware, and it is the one feature a device manufacturer has the least reason to maintain just as well for other brands. Tredict sends planned workouts to Garmin, Coros, Suunto, Wahoo, Hammerhead, Zwift, icTrainer and the Apple Watch via Watchletic.
Then there is switching brands. When you change your watch, your history and your form curve come with you, because Tredict keeps activities from every manufacturer in the same training calendar and calculates your form from all of them.
And finally there is the way back out. You can retrieve your activities and workouts at any time through the OAuth2 API, the Personal API, Dropbox sync or as a .fit file, subscribe to your training calendar in your calendar software, and delete your account completely with a single click. Independence is not measured by how easily you get in.
Independence does not pay off within one season, it pays off over years and decades. Your training history stays with you for your entire athletic career, while the ownership of a platform may change hands several times along the way. So a platform decision is worth thinking through in these longer timeframes.
Tredict is vendor-neutral
Tredict is owner-run, developed and operated in Europe, and belongs to no device manufacturer. Garmin is integrated through the official API and remains a valued partner, just like Coros, Suunto, Polar, Wahoo, Hammerhead and Zwift. All manufacturers are treated equally, because Tredict has no interest in selling you a particular device.
We are convinced that a training platform is best positioned when it is independent of device manufacturers. Your training data and your training planning should not depend on which watch you wear on your wrist.
For coaches and clubs this goes double, because in a training group everyone wears a different watch anyway. As a coach you connect directly with your athletes on Tredict, plan their training, apply your training plans and keep an eye on form curve and training log, no matter whether there is a Garmin, Coros, Suunto, Polar or Wahoo on the wrist.
If you want to switch
If you use TrainingPeaks and are looking for an independent alternative, our overview page walks you through the complete migration path. You import your training history either directly from your device manufacturer or from a TrainingPeaks data export. Tredict recalculates fitness, fatigue and performance from your history using the Banister model, so you do not start from zero.
Tredict as a TrainingPeaks alternative with migration path
The same applies if you are coming from TrainingPeaks as a coach. Your athletes connect with you on Tredict and import their training history themselves, and Tredict recalculates their form curves from it automatically. You set up your training plans once, then apply them to your athletes, publish them in the public directory or sell them through Tredict free of charge. And with an entry in the free coaches directory, new athletes can find you directly.