The hardest part of training isn't the hard workout. It's showing up — week after week, in the rain, when motivation is thin. The thing that actually gets most of us out the door isn't a perfect plan. It's the friend who texts "you riding Saturday?", the clubmate who just logged a monster week, the quiet pressure of a group that's all moving.
IntervalCoach has always been a private conversation between you and your AI coach — your plan, your recovery, your goals. Clubs add the missing ingredient: the people you train with, and the push they give you. Without giving up any of the personalization that makes the coach useful.
A club is a small group of athletes who share selected training data, see each other show up, and keep each other going. It's not a second Strava feed bolted onto a coaching app — the AI coach is still the point. Clubs are what make you want to do the session.
A shared activity feed
Open a club and you land on Activity: a clean timeline of what the group is doing. New members joining, badges earned, and completed workouts — sport, title, and the key numbers (duration, distance, TSS). Enough to cheer each other on, nothing more. No raw GPS traces, no heart-rate dumps. It is a milestone feed, not a surveillance feed.
Leaderboards that reward the right thing
Most leaderboards rank by who is strongest, which is demotivating if you are not. Club leaderboards rank on training behaviour instead: weekly training load (TSS), consistency, and four-week fitness (CTL) growth. The newest, least-fit member can top the board by simply showing up and building — which is exactly the behaviour worth celebrating. You can switch the metric, and you can hide yourself from the rankings entirely.
A weekly AI summary of the whole club
This is the part you will not find anywhere else. Every Sunday, the same coaching engine that writes your daily briefing writes a short club digest — a warm, group-focused read of how the week went. Not "who won", but coaching context: the combined load the club put in, who is trending up, who earned what. It is generated from the data members actually chose to share, in the club owner's language, and it sits right at the top of the Activity tab.
Shared events that adapt to each rider
A club owner can post a shared event — a group ride or a target race — with a date, sport, distance and priority. Any member can add it to their calendar with one tap. The key bit: it lands on your Intervals.icu calendar as a real A/B/C event, so the AI coach folds it into your plan, built around your fitness. The whole club points at the same Saturday classic, but everyone arrives prepared for their own level — not a one-size-fits-all block.
You decide what you share
Privacy is the foundation, not an afterthought. Each member controls, per club, what the group sees: fitness trend, weekly training, badges, plan shape, completed activities. Your recovery and wellness data — HRV, sleep, weight — is never shared with clubmates and has no toggle to accidentally flip. Filtering happens on our side, so a metric you do not share simply never leaves.
Getting started
- Joining a club is free — anyone with an invite link can join.
- Creating a club is part of Pro (up to 10 members), or unlimited on Max.
- The weekly AI club digest is a Max feature; a single Max member unlocks it for the whole club.
Head to Clubs in the menu, create one for your team, and share the invite link. Your clubmates do not need anything fancier than a free account to join in.
Train together. Compare on what matters. Let the coach keep everyone — individually — on track.