WHY TYMEWEAR

Personalization Works for Everyone

Individualized training improves performance 2.4x faster

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Runner during an outdoor workout
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More Than Data

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Most wearables give you data. Tymewear gives you a plan, showing you which threshold is holding you back, how to target it in training, and exactly what workout to do each day.
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10+ Years of Research Breathing Innovation

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Individualized Training Made Simple

We don’t just tell you what happened, we tell you what to do about it. Translating your breathing data into daily, personalized training recommendations. No guesswork, no generic zones, just smarter training that actually works.
Interval workout chart: VO2 max, heart rate, and ventilation

The Metrics That Matter

VT1, VT2 and VO2Max are the cornerstones of workout zones and knowing your actual zones helps you train more effectively
Tymewear app: power, heart rate, and ventilation (minute volume) over a workout
  • Minute Volume - vol/min
  • Heart Rate - bpm
  • Power - watts
  • VT1
  • VT2
  • VO2 Max
Tymewear app chart: power, heart rate, and minute ventilation Workout chart on mobile: minute volume, heart rate, and power over time
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Ventilation is a more reliable real-time target

Minute ventilation is a consistent indicator of your true training intensity. While heart rate drifts upward over a session and power or pace needs to drop to stay in zone, ventilation remains stable. It precisely shows which zone you're really in, making it the perfect target for aerobic training.
Workout graph: heart rate, minute ventilation, and power

Breathing Rate Tracks your perceived effort

During high-intensity intervals, heart rate often plateaus near max, even when you still have work left to do. Breathing rate, however, keeps rising with your actual effort. It reveals the real, accumulating internal load so you can truly gauge and manage hard sessions.
Breathing rate, heart rate, and RPE during hard intervals Breathing rate and effort over high-intensity intervals
The Mobilization Index:

Your Real-Time Stress Gauge

By combining heart rate reserve and breathing rate reserve, Tymewear’s Mobilization Index shows how much of your total capacity you're using. When breathing rate catches up to heart rate as a % of reserve, you're at your true limit. It’s a clear, reliable way to know exactly when you’re “cooked”.
Mobilization Index: heart rate and breathing rate reserve Mobilization Index: heart rate and breathing rate reserve

Trusted by Leading Experts

Mathieu Heijboer, Head of Performance for Team Visma | Lease a Bike
Mathieu Heijboer
Head of Performance for Team Visma | Lease a Bike
Stephen Seiler, Ph.D., Professor at University of Agder
Stephen Seiler, Ph.D.
Professor at University of Agder
Andrea Nicolò, Ph.D., Foro Italico University of Rome
Andrea NICOLÒ Ph.D.
Foro Italico University of Rome

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Are thresholds better than heart rate zones?

A 12-week randomized control trial by Wolpern et al., 2015 found that 7 out of the 12 participants that used the heart rate reserve formula to set their intensity didn’t improve despite consistent training for 12-weeks. To contrast this, in the ventilatory threshold group, all 12 participants improved.

Imagine not improving at all over 12-weeks of training hard, following a program and using training zones that you think are personalized to you. This is much more common than people realize.

Athletes using ventilatory thresholds to guide their intensity in training improved their VO2max by 11.7% on average, compared to just 4.9% in those following traditional heart rate zones. Link to study

Chart comparing training outcomes: heart rate zones versus ventilatory thresholds
VO2 max improvement: ventilatory threshold training versus heart rate zone training