The THRIVE system: the HELIOS ring, the THRIVE app and the supplement packs

THRIVE

The full cycling health & performance system.

HELIOS reads your night, THRIVE sets your training and fuel for the day, and your supplements are matched to the same data.

  1. 1Ring reads
  2. 2App plans
  3. 3Supplements back it up

Free for 30 days

Discover THRIVE for free.Build your 30-day free plan and try THRIVE today.

Take the 2-minute quiz and we build your training plan, nutrition plan and ride computer in the THRIVE app from your answers. Ride it free for 30 days, no ring needed, and see what it does for you before you buy HELIOS.

Your training plan

A multi-week plan built for your goal, your event date and the hours you have, with strength and mobility on the right days. Every session has real targets, and one tap starts it in ride mode.

Your nutrition plan

Daily calorie and carb targets set by that day’s training, with what to eat before, during and after each ride. Log meals by voice, photo, barcode or search.

Ride mode and navigation

Your phone on the bars becomes the bike computer: map, turn-by-turn navigation, Climbing Mode and your live numbers, with every ride recorded.

MARCO, your AI coach

A coach built for cycling and nothing else. Ask by voice or text and he answers from your own plan and rides, and every change he suggests is shown to you first.

Take the quiz Free for 30 days, then $29.99/month. Cancel anytime.
THRIVE app: ride computer with live stats, training planner and fuelling plan

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How it works

  1. Recover faster: THRIVE reads your sleep and HRV through HELIOS, tells you each morning whether to push or rest, and backs your recovery with personalised supplements.
  2. Plan smarter: THRIVE builds your plan around your goal and event date and adjusts it to your week, so every session moves you forward.
  3. Fuel every ride right: THRIVE sets your carbs per hour, daily targets and meals from your training, with personalised supplements to match, so you finish strong.
  4. Ride stronger: THRIVE turns your phone into your bike computer, with navigation, Climbing Mode, power and every interval graded, so you know where you're improving.
  5. Get coached every day: MARCO, THRIVE's AI coach, answers from your own data by voice or text, so you never second-guess a session.

What THRIVE does for you

THRIVE reads your recovery through HELIOS every night, builds a plan that moves with your week, turns your phone into your bike computer and sets the fuel for every ride. MARCO, your AI coach, answers from your own data.

THRIVE worksriders prove it

Luca MorettiEndurance Cycling Coach

My riders used to send me three apps’ worth of data. Now recovery, plan and fuelling sit in one place, and the plan moves before they dig a hole.

Peter HarlandCycling Coach, Masters & Gran Fondo Riders

Once my masters riders trained to their morning recovery score, they stopped forcing hard days. They turn up fresher for the sessions that count.

Hudson ClarkePerformance Nutrition Coach

Most riders under-fuel and call it discipline. THRIVE sets carbs from the day’s training, so hard days get fed and rest days stay lighter.

Lina SorensenSports Nutritionist & Endurance Fuelling Coach

Riders over 40 recover slower, and most plans ignore it. Seeing sleep and HRV each morning lets them fuel and rest for the body they have.

Built for smarter cycling, longevity, and performance

HELIOS enhances your training by tracking your body 24/7, fuelling every ride, and helping you build fitness consistently with less risk of overtraining.

Buy HELIOS
  • Precisely calibrated sensors designed to read your heart rate, HRV, sleep and recovery, day and night.

  • Every morning you get a recovery score from your sleep, HRV and resting heart rate, and a training window for the day, so your hard sessions land on days you have recovered.

  • Rides record in ride mode, with power, heart rate and navigation on your phone. Strength and mobility sessions log in the same app and count toward your training load.

  • Your AI coach, MARCO, tunes your plan to your recent rides and recovery, plans your rides and meals, and answers by voice or text from your own data.

Step-by-Step Performance and Longevity

Whether you’re chasing a higher FTP, building toward an event, or riding to stay strong for years — THRIVE meets you where you are. From your first night wearing HELIOS to a full training block, each phase is designed to read your body, plan your training, and get you riding stronger, for longer.

Night 1

Passive Tracking

HELIOS keeps working, even while you sleep. Wear it day and night to read your sleep, HRV, resting heart rate and skin temperature against your own baseline. Every morning you get a recovery score and a hard, easy or rest-day call.

Day 1

Build Your Plan

Answer six questions: your goal, event date, experience, hours, schedule and whether you want strength work. MARCO builds a multi-week plan in real phases (base, build, peak and taper) with real targets for every session. One tap starts each ride in ride mode.

Every day

Train and Recover

Your plan moves with your week. After a bad night, a missed session or a big unplanned ride, THRIVE shows you what should change before anything moves. Strength and mobility land on the right days.

Every ride

Fuel Every Ride

Eat for the ride you’re about to do. Daily calorie and carb targets are set by that day’s training, and every ride gets its own plan: before, during and after. Hard days get more, rest days get less, and you log meals by voice, photo, barcode or search.

90 days+

Ride Strong for Longer

Build fitness. Protect your body. With 90 days of riding and recovery side by side, you see your FTP progression, your training load and your athletic age, tracked from your HRV and resting heart rate.

Meet your cycling coachMARCO by THRIVE

Tap a skill and watch him work. These are real recordings from the THRIVE app.

Try  MARCO  free for 30 daysFree for 30 days, then $29.99/month. Cancel anytime.
MARCO chat in the THRIVE app

HELIOSTitanium. 2.4 grams. Worn day and night.

HELIOS ring, inner band and sensors
HELIOS in Titanium Silver, three-quarter view
HELIOS from a low side angle

HELIOS

$219.00

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The ring at the centre of THRIVE. It reads your heart rate, HRV, blood oxygen, skin temperature, respiratory rate and sleep, and runs your plan, your fuelling and MARCO on your phone.

As light as

2.4

grams

A closer look at HELIOS

  • Up to 10 days7–10 days a charge, about 90 minutes to full on the dock.
  • Water resistant to 100 mRain, showers and swimming are fine. Fits under gloves.
  • Grade-5 titaniumPolished titanium over a clear inner band, sensors visible.
  • Four sensorsOptical heart rate, blood oxygen, skin temperature and motion.

Results you can trust

Backed by peer-reviewed studies and scientific research, THRIVE is built to deliver results in recovery, performance, and longevity.

HRV-guided training study

7.3%

More power over a 40-minute time trial

after 8 weeks of training set by a morning HRV reading

Javaloyes et al., 2019

Polarised training study

17.4%

Longer time to exhaustion

after 9 weeks of polarised training

Stöggl & Sperlich, 2014

In-ride fuelling trial

8%

Better time-trial performance

with glucose + fructose during the ride vs glucose alone

Currell & Jeukendrup, 2008

Recovery nutrition study

27%

More muscle fuel restored in 4 hours

with carbs + protein after a hard ride vs carbs alone

Ivy et al., 2002

Strength training study

7.8%

More power late in a long ride

5-min all-out after 185 min, with 12 weeks of heavy strength work

Rønnestad et al., 2011

263,450-person study

41%

Lower risk of death from any cause

for people who ride to work vs those who don’t

Celis-Morales et al., 2017

Complete Your System

Personalised supplement packs to aid your recovery and support your goals, delivered straight to your door. Add one with your HELIOS ring and the pack is 20% off.

Performance supplement pack

Performance

3-month supply · 4 supplements

Creatine · whey isolate · electrolytes · magnesium

$237.60$297.0020% off with HELIOS
Back from injury supplement pack

Back from injury

3-month supply · 8 supplements

Creatine · whey isolate · collagen + C · omega-3 · vitamin D · turmeric · zinc · magnesium + ashwagandha

$357.60$447.0020% off with HELIOS
Weight loss supplement pack

Weight loss

3-month supply · 5 supplements

Whey isolate · electrolytes · magnesium + ashwagandha · omega-3 · vitamin D

$213.60$267.0020% off with HELIOS

THRIVE vs. the alternatives.

Bike computers, fitness watches, sleep rings and coaching apps each solve one piece. THRIVE is the only one built to do all of it: your recovery, your plan, your fuelling, ride mode and a coach.

Get the  HELIOS  ring
THRIVEBike computerHead unit, HR strap, power meterFitness watchGPS sports watchSleep ringRecovery-only ringCoaching appOnline plan or coach
Recovery score
Plan built on your recovery
Fuelling plan
Live power & navigation
Climb profiles
24/7 heart rate, HRV & sleep
AI coach on your data
Strength & mobility
YesLimitedNo

Research we build on

  • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
  • Int. J. of Sports Physiology & Performance
  • Journal of Applied Physiology
  • The BMJ
  • Frontiers in Physiology

RECOVERY SCORE

Your recovery, scored every morning

Every morning, THRIVE turns last night’s readings from HELIOS into one recovery score on a gauge. It’s built from your sleep, your overnight HRV and resting heart rate against your own baseline, and your training form. It tells you whether today is a hard, easy or rest day, and when in the day to train.

The same score feeds the rest of THRIVE. Your training plan, your fuelling targets and MARCO all read it, so a short night shows up in what you’re asked to ride and eat that day. Any change to your plan is shown to you first. And “why?” is one tap: ask MARCO about your score from the same screen.

RECOVERY FACTORS

What’s driving your score

A score is only useful if you know what moved it. THRIVE breaks your recovery into the factors that drive it, sleep, HRV, resting heart rate and form, each against your own baseline. HRV is green above your rolling baseline and amber or red below it; resting heart rate is coloured the other way round.

Each factor opens into its own trend: overnight HRV with a 7-day sparkline, resting heart rate, sleep, and training load as fitness, fatigue and form. You can see in seconds whether a low score came from a short night, a hard week or both.

SLEEP STAGES

Understanding your sleep stages

Your sleep is broken down into four stages: deep, light, REM and awake. Each stage does a different job, and your body uses them for growth, repair and restoration. How long you spend in each one changes with training load, stress and how late you ride.

HELIOS tracks your sleep across every stage, and THRIVE shows it as a stacked bar and a hypnogram. You also get a 0–100 sleep index, a Poor-to-Excellent quality band with one line of advice, and an ideal wake-up window worked out from your sleep cycle.

ATHLETIC AGE

Track how young your body rides

Athletic age compares your HRV and resting heart rate against age-group norms and gives you the age your body is riding at, with what’s moving it. It shows green when it’s younger than your real age, and amber or red when it’s older. Follow it as a trend over 7, 30 and 90 days, next to your riding.

SENSORS

Read from your finger, day and night

HELIOS reads your body continuously, day and night: heart rate, HRV, resting heart rate, blood oxygen, skin temperature, respiratory rate, movement and sleep. An optical heart-rate sensor, a blood-oxygen sensor, a skin-temperature sensor and a 3-axis accelerometer sit in the clear resin inner band, under grade-5 titanium.

There’s no screen and no buttons. The ring sends everything to THRIVE over Bluetooth. It weighs 2.4 g, runs 7–10 days on a charge and is water resistant to 100 m, so it stays on through rides, showers and sleep.

STRESS

Check your stress, then bring it down

Your stress level sits in today’s vitals, next to HRV, sleep and resting heart rate. You can also take a stress reading on demand from HELIOS whenever you want: before a race, after a long day at work, or when your recovery score looks off.

Then bring it down. THRIVE’s guided meditation sessions are built for cycling recovery, chosen by what you need (focus, recovery or pre-race), with your heart rate tracked live so you can watch it settle.

YOUR PLAN

Base, build, peak, taper

Answer six questions: your goal, event date, experience, hours, schedule and whether you want strength. MARCO builds a multi-week plan in real phases: base, build, peak and taper. Every session has real targets (zones, power, intervals), and strength and mobility land on the days they fit.

The monthly calendar shows every planned and completed session, colour-coded by phase, with fitness, fatigue and form tiles. Open any session for its structure, power profile and target zones, and one tap starts it as a live ride or strength session.

PLAN UPDATES

You approve every change

When your week changes (a bad night, a missed session, a big unplanned ride, a new schedule), THRIVE works out what should move and shows you the change and the reason. You apply it, keep the plan, or take a rest day. Swaps, moves, skips, intensity and the week’s focus all work the same way.

It happens once a day, in the morning, off the bike. Nothing changes mid-ride, and the plan is never changed silently.

TRAINING PLANNER

Every session in one calendar

Every planned and completed session sits in one calendar: rides, strength and mobility, so you can read your week at a glance. Each week shows its TSS, hours and how many sessions are done, and fitness, fatigue and form show where the block is taking you.

RIDE MODE

Your bike computer, on your phone

Ride mode turns the phone on your bars into your bike computer: the map, turn-by-turn navigation and every live number, including speed, distance, heart rate from HELIOS, power, cadence and elevation. Rides record straight into your history and training load, with nothing else to mount or charge.

Power and cadence come from one calculation: HELIOS heart rate together with speed, gradient, and rider and bike mass. That gives you an accurate, consistent reading to pace and train by, with no power meter, cadence sensor or chest strap. Your heart rate zones show live on the ride screen, turns are spoken aloud, and maps keep loading offline.

CLIMBING MODE

Every climb, mapped as you ride

Load a route and THRIVE detects the climbs on it. As you approach each one, ride mode switches to a climb profile: gradient, distance left, elevation gain and your climb power, with voice alerts. You always know how much climb is left and what you’re putting out, so you don’t blow up halfway.

Plan a route by tapping waypoints that snap to bike-friendly roads, or import any GPX or TCX file. Every route runs with full navigation and Climbing Mode.

INTERVAL REPORT

Every interval, graded

Load a structured workout and training mode shows the current interval’s target (zone, power, heart rate, cadence) with a segment timeline and live feedback on whether you’re hitting it. On the road or on the trainer.

After the ride, every work interval is graded against its target: held it, overcooked it or faded. The splits are saved per interval, and MARCO reads them to tell you what to do next.

MARCO

A coach who knows your data

MARCO is THRIVE’s own coach, built for cycling and nothing else. Ask by voice or text and he answers from your own data: last night’s sleep and recovery, HRV, your last rides, training load, goals and fuelling. He knows which screen you’re on, so “why is this red?” needs no explanation.

He answers from THRIVE’s coaching library: peer-reviewed sports science and the methods of leading cycling coaches, physiotherapists and pro riders, with every study checked before it goes in. He also takes action: building your plan, planning a ride, changing your week and logging food, and you accept or reject each change.

YOUR GOAL

Built around what you’re chasing

Tell MARCO what you’re chasing (raise your FTP, climb faster, sharpen your sprint, build your base or get race-ready) and your event date. Your plan, fuelling and recovery are set to get you there. Change the goal or the date and he rebuilds the plan around it.

MORNING BRIEF

Briefed before you ride

MARCO briefs you in one screen: how you recovered, today’s session, what to eat for it and the conditions outside. Tap through to keep the conversation going.

FUEL PLAN

Every gram, timed to the ride

Every planned ride gets its own fuelling plan: what to eat before it, how many carbs per hour to take during it, and what to take on after, worked out from that session’s duration and intensity and your body.

Your regulars (gels, drink mix, bars) are one-tap quick-add tiles, so intake is logged as you go and the day’s targets update.

DAILY TARGETS

Calories and carbs, matched to your load

THRIVE sets your daily calorie and carbohydrate targets from your body and that day’s training using the Energy Availability model from sports science: basal metabolic rate plus exercise energy plus daily activity, adjusted for your goal. A hard day gets more, a rest day gets less, automatically.

Log meals by describing them, snapping a photo, scanning a barcode or searching. There’s a floor so your target never drops into under-fuelling: it’s fuelling for training, never dieting.

SUPPLEMENTS

Personalised to your training

Take the 2-minute quiz and THRIVE matches your stack to your training, recovery and goal. Prefer to choose? Pick a set pack (Performance, Back from injury or Weight loss) or add any supplement on its own.

THE DIFFERENCE

The gains he coaches toward

7.3%

Riders whose training was set by a morning HRV reading improved their 40-minute time trial by 7.3% over 8 weeks. THRIVE reads your HRV every night and sets the day around it.

Javaloyes et al., 2019
8%

Taking glucose plus fructose during the ride gave an 8% better time trial than glucose alone. Your fuel plan sets carbs per hour for every ride.

Currell & Jeukendrup, 2008
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Three nights of extended sleep made riders about 1.9 minutes faster over an hour-long time trial. HELIOS tracks every night’s sleep, stage by stage.

Roberts et al., 2019

FUEL CURVE · BETA

See your energy dip before it hits

Fuel Curve is a predicted energy line for your day, built from your food log, your rides and HELIOS. It shows whether you’re steady, heading for a dip or on a surge, and tells you what to do next in plain words, with a time: dip likely around 3:35 PM, so eat about 30 g of carbs by 3:15 to stay level.

It sits on your Home screen and in Nutrition, and the 7-day view shows how steady your energy has been all week, with your ride days marked. On the bike, your ride screen shows when your next fuel is due. Fuel Curve is in beta: it’s a prediction, not a measurement.

RIDE FUEL

Finish strong instead of fading

Every planned ride gets its own fuelling plan: what to eat before it, how many carbs per hour to take on the bike, and what to have after, worked out from the session’s length and intensity and your body. You see how much to carry and when to take each gel and bottle.

Out on the ride, your ride screen shows when your next fuel is due. Feeling flat? Tap “I’m fading” and it tells you how many carbs to take now. Your regulars (gels, drink mix, bars) are one-tap logs, so the day’s targets keep up.

DAILY TARGETS

Lose weight without running on empty

Set a weight goal and THRIVE sets your daily calorie and carb targets for it, using the Energy Availability model from sports science: your basal metabolic rate, plus what your training burns, plus your daily activity. Big training days get more and rest days get less, so the fuel is there when you ride hard.

Eat too little on a hard day and the ride suffers, then the hunger hits later. Targets that move with your training let you lose weight without cutting the fuel your riding needs. Every meal you log shows against the day’s target, and the week view shows how each day went.

LONG-TERM HEALTH

Train hard without under-fuelling

Training hard on too little food is called low energy availability. Sports science links it to lost power and slower recovery, and over time to problems with bones, hormones and immunity. Riders chasing weight are most at risk, and it’s easy to miss.

THRIVE puts a floor under every daily target, so it never drops into under-fuelling, even on a weight goal. Your energy availability shows on the Nutrition screen every day, worked out from what you eat and what your training burns. It’s fuelling for training, never dieting.

FOOD LOG

Log a meal in seconds

Log food four ways: snap a photo and the app recognises the meal and proposes realistic portions, scan a barcode, search the USDA database, or just say what you ate. Whole dishes work, and nothing is added until you’ve checked it.

Your regulars (the gel, the banana, your usual bottle mix) are one tap. And when you don’t know what to eat, ask MARCO to plan the rest of today’s meals to fit what’s left of your targets, around your training.