Lab-grade running biomechanics, that meets you where you are.
Gamana exists because the forces running puts on your body, and your body's capacity to absorb them, shape your health and performance, yet stay invisible to almost every runner. Both forces and your capacity change with your life stage, your health history, and how you feel today.
Our mission
Clock in those miles, or don't. Your body, your intuition, your decision.
We are here to support your decision-making by handing you a powerful lever you can pull on: the forces applied to your body, within the context of your life stage, your training and health history, and how you're feeling, sleeping, and eating.
How it works
Our model learns your individual movement patterns and then predicts the forces applied to your body per-step. Every run produces a single load number you can compare day-to-day. Then, our insights encourage you to plan for tomorrow based on your training and health history, and experiences today.
Force isn't good or bad on its own; it only means something relative to what your body can handle. Gamana reads each run against your capacity, which shifts with your life stage, your training and health history, and how you're recovering right now.
Why it matters
"I ran 5 miles yesterday and I plan to run 5 miles tomorrow, just as hard. The physical demands on my body should be comparable, right?"
Not necessarily! The same 5 miles run at the same speed or intensity can change the forces applied to your body depending on how many steps you take per minute, how long each step is, the degree to which you flex and extend your joints per step, and more. Gamana captures this by estimating the forces applied to your body rather than leaving you to infer load from distance, time, pace, or heart rate alone.
Forces shape how you propel yourself off the ground as you move forward, influencing both performance and the demands placed on your bones, muscles, and other soft tissues over time, contributing to how they adapt to training.
And even when the forces are the same, their effect isn't. The same load lands differently depending on where you are in life—adolescence, pregnancy, postpartum, menopause—because bone health, muscle, and recovery capacity shift as your body changes. Gamana accounts for both sides: the forces a run places on your body, and your body's capacity to absorb them at this point in your life.