The Breakaway
ActiveThe personal coach and companion for cyclists.
About
The Breakaway is a personal performance coach for cyclists, with the product, team, roadmap and vision to extend to be the mass market coaching platform for anyone tracking their performance. As more and more people realize that exercise is the key not only to personal performance, but to health and wellness, the inevitable future is that everyone will have an AI driven personal performance coach & companion in their pocket. The Breakaway will be that Coach.
The Breakaway is a mobile app that acts as a personal performance coach for cyclists, delivering AI-powered coaching, guided daily workouts, and adaptive scheduling to help users improve and stay accountable with friends.
The app provides an AI-powered coach that sets weekly targets, adjusts workouts when rides are skipped or extra rides are added, and offers guidance on daily activities from recovery rides to specific workouts. It emphasizes in-pocket coaching with world-class coaching and sports science elements, and includes social features to compete or ride with friends for accountability.
Who it’s for: Cyclists seeking structured, coach-like guidance and accountability within a mobile app, including those who ride with friends or groups for motivation.
- AI-powered personal coach
- Weekly target setting
- Adaptive workout adjustments
- Daily guidance for workouts
- Recovery and specific-workout recommendations
- Social/teams feature for accountability
- In-pocket coaching with sports science
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Founders · 2
CEO & Co-founder of The Breakaway. I founded The Breakaway in 2020 along with Kyle Yugawa. Our mission is to help people improve and we're starting with cycling, leveraging the explosive growth in platforms like Peloton, Zwift and Strava. We'll expand to all aspects of digital fitness to become the go-to coaching app for fitness enthusiasts. Previously I was at: Urbandoor (Acq by Airbnb), Strava, Google, AdMob (Acq by Google), HomeGain.
Product designer. Father of two. Recovering jiujiteiro. Weekend warrior cyclist. Co-founder & design leader at The Breakaway YCS21. Singularly focused on helping more people improve their fitness and finding joy in riding their bikes. Previously at Strava, VSCO, and Tempo
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