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Adaptive Training Plans for
Mountain Athletes

Train to Mountain is the personalised mountaineering training app. The algorithm is adaptive: every Sunday it recalibrates the next week around what you actually completed and how recovered you are. Built for ambitious amateur mountain athletes in the 3,000-5,000m range.

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Free during early access · No credit card required · iOS first

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Built on exercise science - not generic templates

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Day Fitness Model
Mountain Fitness tracked with scientific time constants (Banister)
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Day Fatigue Window
Acute load monitored daily - taper is timed to the day
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Wearable Auto-Sync
Zero manual input - your device feeds the algorithm directly
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Science Models
Banister · MTS · SRS · Prescription Engine - all working together
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Altitude Objectives
From 2,000m sub-alpine trails to 8,848m expedition targets
The problem we're solving

Mountain athletes deserve better than five apps and a spreadsheet

Every serious mountain athlete is living the same fragmented reality. A PDF plan that never updates. A wearable nobody reads. Screenshots pasted into ChatGPT. YouTube workouts. Forum threads with conflicting advice. None of it talks to each other, none of it knows your summit date, and none of it adapts when life happens.

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Your training data lives in too many places. A PDF plan, a journal, your wearable, a spreadsheet, ChatGPT, YouTube workouts, forum threads. None of them share a common language, and none of them know your summit date.
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Plans that never change are plans that don't work. Your body adapts, life gets in the way, a session gets missed, but the plan stays identical for 12 weeks regardless of what actually happened.
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Generic endurance training ignores the altitude variable. The cardiovascular demands above 4,000m (13,100 ft) are categorically different from a road marathon. No mainstream platform builds altitude physiology into the model.
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You're doing the analysis work yourself. Screenshotting your wearable data, pasting it into ChatGPT, asking what it means, and hoping the answer is calibrated to your objective and fitness history. It isn't.
A scattering of disconnected mountain training tools: PDF plan, training journal, wearable, spreadsheet, ChatGPT, YouTube workouts, and forums - with the athlete stuck in the middle and no connections between any of them.
The solution

One platform. The complete training loop.

TTM closes the loop that every mountain athlete is trying to close manually. Your profile feeds the algorithm. The algorithm builds your program. Your wearable feeds your data back. The AI interprets it. The plan adapts. Every Sunday, automatically.

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Build your profile. Altitude objective, summit date, current fitness, training environment. The algorithm starts here.
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Your program is generated. Not selected from a template - built from scratch by the Prescription Engine for your exact objective and timeline.
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Train. Your wearable syncs automatically. Every session captured, every metric ingested - zero manual input required.
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Your AI coach debriefs every session. Not a summary - a coached interpretation of what your data means relative to your summit goal.
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Your program recalibrates every week. Real results vs. planned stimulus. The algorithm adapts the remaining block accordingly.
Unified Summit OS: Your Goal, Adaptive Plan, Wearable Sync, AI Coach, and Weekly Adapt connected in a closed loop around your mountain at the centre.
Three layers of intelligence

AI that acts - not just AI that answers

Most AI tools respond to questions. TTM's AI coaches you proactively - building your program, checking in daily, and recalibrating your plan based on what actually happened this week.

Custom Program Builder
Describe your objective, your constraints, your history in plain language. The AI builds your training block from scratch - using the Banister model and the Prescription Engine, not a template library.
Objective-specific periodization from day one
Urban vertical and mountain training plans differentiated
Injury history and time constraints built in
Refined through natural conversation
Daily AI Coach
Every morning: your readiness score, today's session, and why. Every evening: a coached debrief on what your wearable data actually shows - not what you logged, what it means for your summit goal.
Morning Summit Readiness Score from real data
Post-workout AI debrief with specific interpretation
Overtraining and injury risk flagged early
Weekly and monthly trend reporting
Adaptive Recalculation
Every week your plan is tactically adjusted based on what you actually did. Every four weeks the entire remaining plan is rebuilt from your real fitness and fatigue. Your summit date never moves. Everything else adapts around it, within hard safety limits.
Weekly + multi-week recalibration
Wearable auto-sync. Zero manual entry.
Real Mountain Fitness vs. projection
SRS updated daily on your actual data
Built-in safety cap on volume growth
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Summit Readiness
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Month 1
58
Month 2
67
Month 3
71
Month 4
80
Month 5
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Summit
Summit Readiness Score

Every morning, you know exactly where you stand.

The Summit Readiness Score (SRS) combines five honest dimensions of mountain preparation into a single daily number: fitness, vertical capacity, long-day rehearsal, descent readiness, and training consistency. You wake up and know whether today is a build day, a recovery day, or a taper day. When the projected gap to your target is too big to close safely, the algorithm tells you in time to make a real decision, without guilt. Try the public mountaineering readiness calculator to see how it works.

Built on the Banister Model
The same fitness-fatigue model used by elite sport scientists - applied specifically to mountain athletes and altitude objectives.
Powered by your real data
Your wearable syncs overnight. Every morning's SRS is calculated from what you actually did - not an estimate or a static plan.
Calibrated to your summit date
The SRS isn't a generic fitness score - it's relative to your specific altitude target and the weeks remaining until your attempt.
Interactive Tool

See how ready you'd be for your altitude

Set your target altitude, training variables, and timeline. The simulator runs the real Banister fitness-fatigue model and shows you your projected readiness score - live, as you adjust the inputs.

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Target Altitude
4,808m
Alpine Zone - ≈54% sea-level O₂
Mont Blanc · 4,808m Matterhorn · 4,478m Mont Blanc · 4,808m Mt Kenya · 4,985m
68
Cardiovascular Readiness (est.)
On Track - Building
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Proprietary algorithm

Built on real exercise science

TTM's algorithm isn't a wrapper around generic training principles. It's a multi-model system that tracks your physiology, models your adaptation, and generates prescriptions based on your specific objective, including the descent half of summit day that other platforms ignore.

Banister Fitness-Fatigue Model
The mathematical basis for how training creates fitness and fatigue simultaneously. TTM runs this model daily on your actual data, with sex-specific coefficients rather than a male default.
Banister & Calvert 1975 · Banister et al. 1991 · Applied to mountain athletes
The Science page →
Mountain-specific training load
A training-load metric built for mountain athletes, not adapted from cycling. Captures the demands unique to summit preparation in a single per-session number.
Grounded in published exercise physiology
The Science page →
Descent readiness
Other platforms count the climb. TTM counts the descent too: the work that destroys quads on summit-day descent. We surface it as part of your readiness.
Repeated bout effect · McHugh 2003
The Science page →
Summit Readiness Score
TTM's composite readiness metric, built from five honest dimensions of mountain preparation. Updated daily from real data, calibrated against summit outcomes.
TTM proprietary
The Science page →
Verified plans, transparent math
Your plan is generated from first principles, then checked against safety rules before you ever see it. The math is open; the output is verified.
TTM proprietary
The Science page →
Who TTM is built for

Mountain objectives. Two realities.

TTM is built for athletes with mountain goals - whether you're training next to hills and altitude or building your base from a flat urban environment. The platform knows the difference.

Mountain Access Athletes
You train where it counts
You have access to hills, trails, or altitude. TTM builds mountain-specific sessions into your program - vertical gain, pack weight, technical terrain - and calibrates your SRS for the specificity of your environment.
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Altitude-specific periodization - training blocks built around elevation exposure windows
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Vertical gain targets - m/hour capacity tracked and progressed
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Multi-objective support - ski mountaineering, alpinism, high-altitude trekking
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Direct wearable integration - every mountain session captured and analysed automatically via Garmin, Coros, or Suunto
Urban Athletes with Mountain Goals
You build the engine where you are
Your stairmaster is your mountain. You're replicating 300-400m/hr vertical load from a city gym - and planning a real summit months from now. TTM is built for athletes who train vertically in urban environments, adjusts your SRS to reflect what that training actually produces, and tells you what only real altitude can finish.
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Urban vertical programmes - stairmaster, weighted step-ups, active recovery runs structured to build mountain-specific cardiovascular fitness
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Specificity-adjusted SRS - honest readiness scores that account for terrain limitations
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Pre-trip block planning - structured altitude exposure in the final weeks before your objective
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Altitude-exposure block planning - TTM flags when your timeline requires scheduled altitude exposure that no urban training can substitute
Step by step

From first session to summit day

TTM guides every step of your preparation - from setting your objective to the final taper before your attempt.

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Tell TTM your objective 5 min
Your target altitude, summit date, current fitness level, training environment, and any constraints. The AI asks clarifying questions in natural language - no forms to fill.
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Your personalised program is built Instant
The Prescription Engine generates your complete training block - periodized weeks, session types, load targets - from the Banister model, not a template. Adjusted for your specific altitude objective.
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Connect your wearable once Auto
One-time authorisation. Every session you complete syncs automatically overnight - heart rate, training load, GPS, elevation. Zero manual input from that point on.
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Your AI coach checks in daily Daily
Each morning: your SRS, your session, your reason why. Each evening: a post-workout debrief that tells you what your data actually means for your summit preparation - not a generic summary.
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Your plan adapts every week Weekly
Real performance vs. planned stimulus. If you're ahead of schedule, load increases. If life got in the way, the block restructures. Your summit date stays fixed - everything else adapts around it.
What TTM tracks for you
Summit Readiness Score
80 /100
Cardiovascular readiness for target altitude. Updated daily.
Mountain Fitness (MF)
68 units
Your mountain-prep fitness base. Mont Blanc benchmark: 65-75.
Mountain Form (MForm)
+12
Optimal freshness window for today's session. Build day confirmed.
Weeks to Summit
8
Taper begins in 5 weeks. Program on track.
Why TTM is different

What other platforms don't do

Five commitments that come straight from the algorithm, not from marketing.

We count the descent
Half of summit day is going down. Going down breaks people physiologically in a way no fitness app currently tracks. TTM tracks descent load alongside fitness and surfaces gaps before they compromise summit day.
Repeated bout effect · McHugh 2003
Every plan is checked before you see it
The math is open. The output is verified. Plans are checked against safety rules before they ever reach your screen. You won't see a plan that violates our built-in guardrails.
Transparent math, verified output
Calibrated for your physiology, not a male default
Sex-specific training response has been documented in the literature for decades. TTM uses it. Female athletes get the female variant of the formula, not a male default with a female label.
Published exercise physiology · sex-specific TRIMP
When the gap can't be closed, you'll know in time
If life has put you behind, the algorithm rebuilds the best achievable plan from where you actually are. When projected readiness is at risk, you hear about it clearly. Paired with a plan, never with guilt. We respect your autonomy: the app never blocks the attempt. We just refuse to over-promise.
Honest readiness communication
Tell us in advance, we'll plan around it
Travel coming up? Work crunch? Illness? Tell the app before it happens and your plan rebuilds around it. Your summit date stays fixed. Everything else flexes within safety limits.
Real-life-aware planning
Free tools

Free tools for mountain athletes.

Calculators and planners that solve real problems mountain athletes have today. No account, no email, open and use.

Readiness Summit Readiness Calculator

Estimate your cardiovascular readiness for a target peak. Enter your training load, recent sessions, weeks to summit, and target altitude. Output: a single readiness score using the Banister fitness-fatigue model.

Open the calculator → Planning Peak Progression Planner

Map your peak ladder. Pick your experience, region, and goal peak. Output: a 2 to 4 peak progression with typical training time for each step and links to each peak training plan.

Open the planner → Muscular endurance Muscular Endurance Calculator

A 60-second muscular endurance readiness score for your goal peak. Three quick inputs, science-backed scoring, and the specific gap to close before summit day.

Open the calculator → Vertical conversion StairMaster Calculator

Convert StairMaster floors and steps to vertical gain in metres and feet. Useful for translating treadmill or stair-machine sessions into the unit mountain training actually cares about.

Open the calculator → Vertical conversion Treadmill Incline Calculator

Convert treadmill incline percent and distance into vertical gain in metres and feet. For simulating peak-specific terrain when you cannot access real vertical regularly.

Open the calculator →
Beta Full / Waitlist Open

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Our founding beta group is locked in and training. Join the waitlist to be first in line when we open new spots. You will get a personalised program built by AI from day one.

Free during beta · No credit card · iOS first, Android following

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We'll reach out before launch with onboarding access. Train smart until then.