Training that understands you better than anyone.

  • Runners, cyclists and triathletes
  • Made in South Africa
The short answer

Glyco is for runners, cyclists and triathletes. It reads your training, sleep, food and aches together, and sets every day around them: what to eat, when to fuel, and when to back off.

Our story

Born out of frustration on race day

Glyco was born out of frustration. As competitive endurance athletes, we spent hours building race-day nutrition plans, manually cross-referencing gel carbohydrate ratios, estimating sweat losses, and guessing where on a course to take on fuel. The tools available were either too simplistic (a single calculator) or too academic (a research paper with no practical output).

We believed athletes deserved a platform that understood their physiology, knew the products on the market inside out, and could map a fuelling strategy to the exact kilometre markers of any race course, accounting for elevation, weather, and individual metabolic rates.

That's what Glyco does. It reads your training from Strava, Apple Health and Garmin, overlays peer-reviewed glycogen models, and turns them into a plan for every race and training session. Whether you're running your first marathon or chasing a podium at an ultra, Glyco helps you avoid the fuelling mistakes that end a good day early.

What we stand for

  • 01

    Science first

    Every recommendation is rooted in peer-reviewed sports science, glycogen depletion, sweat-rate physiology and metabolic modelling, not marketing claims. Tap any number in the app and it says where it came from.

  • 02

    Athlete-centric

    Built by endurance athletes who were tired of generic advice. Every feature exists because it solves a real problem we faced on race day.

  • 03

    Privacy by design

    Your health data is encrypted in storage and in transit, isolated to your account by row-level security, logged on every access, and never sold or shared. Built for POPIA and GDPR.

  • 04

    Made for you

    No two athletes are the same. Glyco accounts for your weight, pace, heart-rate zones, gut tolerance, sweat rate and course profile to build plans unique to you.

  • 05

    Something to do

    We don't just show data. We say what to eat, when, and where on the course. Every read ends in a concrete action.

  • 06

    Works with what you use

    Strava, Apple Health, Garmin through Intervals.icu, and FatSecret, so your training, food and recovery land in one place.

In the app

See what Glyco makes of your training.

For runners, cyclists and triathletes. Glyco reads your training, sleep, food and aches, and sets every day around them. Free on iPhone and on the web.

Today, in the Glyco app