Strava is adding Physical Therapy as an official activity type on its platform, making it possible for its 195 million users to log PT sessions alongside runs, rides, swims, and everything else they track.

The feature goes live April 30, 2026.

Why this Matters for Athletes

Injuries are one of the most common and most isolating experiences in an active person’s life. You go from logging miles, and being around friends to sitting out, with nothing to show for the work you’re putting in just to get back to being active again. For endurance athletes especially, the gap between “training” and “recovering” has always felt like a full stop. And sadly, I’ve felt it. The pressure you put on yourself to “get back” is real.

Strava’s move acknowledges what most coaches and sports medicine professionals already know: rehabilitation is training. The discipline required to show up for a PT session, do the unglamorous work, and stay consistent through recovery is no different from the discipline required to hit a long run on tired legs. It just hasn’t had a place in fitness tracking — until now.

What the Feature Includes

Physical Therapy joins more than 50 existing activity types on Strava, sitting alongside yoga, weight training, and pilates. It complements two features already on the platform: the Recover Athletics app, which is built for mobility and strength work, and Recovery activity tags, which let athletes annotate lighter-effort days.

The addition gives PT sessions the same structure as any other logged activity.

It becomes a record, a timestamp, a streak. For athletes navigating injury, that continuity can matter more than most people realize. And you can grab some kudos and not feel so isolated for that recovery work.

Why this is a Smart Move for Strava

Strava’s value proposition has always been community and consistency; the idea that showing up, logging the effort, and sharing progress with people who get it is motivating in a way that purely private tracking isn’t. Physical Therapy extends that logic into one of the few remaining blind spots in an active person’s life.

As Matt Salazar, Strava’s Chief Product Officer, put it: building back from injury is as meaningful as setting a new PR. Giving that process a home on the platform isn’t a minor feature update — it’s a statement about what Strava thinks fitness actually looks like.

For the endurance community, where injuries are a when-not-if reality, this feature feels long-overdue recognition that the comeback is part of the entire journey.

The full announcement can be seen here.