“When you’re going somewhere new or even don’t quite know all the names of the peaks in your backyard, it’s a superfast way to show you what mountains you’re surrounded by.” “It’s an app that you can hold to the horizon and it’ll show you the names of the peaks you’re looking at,” he says.

PeakFinder helps Townsend orient himself. His go-to training apps have less to do with tracking stats like heart rate and more to do with moving through the mountains efficiently. Professional skier Cody Townsend’s training usually just looks like fun: a ski tour or a mountain bike ride near his home in Lake Tahoe. PeakFinder ($5) (Courtesy PeakFinder) Cody Townsend, Skier “I work with a coach, and we are each able to access the platform and communicate through it, which is great for keeping everything in one place.” The premium version offers compatibility with various calendar apps to help you plan your training, in addition to more nuanced data analytics tools, unlimited storage to design and save workouts, and the ability to edit your logged data. “I’ve found it to be the most customizable app for really digging into the data,” Foote says. It crunches the numbers about heart rate, pace, elevation, distance, and more into easily digestible information. Montana-based ultrarunner Mike Foote records his runs on his Suunto GPS watch and uploads the data to Training Peaks, which is essentially a user-friendly data analytics tool. Training Peaks (Free for Basic $20/Month for Premium) (Courtesy Training Peaks) Mike Foote, Ultrarunner These are the apps pro athletes use to take their training to the next level. But it can give your workout a boost by helping you track your fitness, holding you accountable, and connecting you to huge databases of information. Your phone can't make you stronger, faster, or healthier on its own.

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