TL;DR: Intertools is a collection of tools for Intervals.icu. So far, it has two tools that help you create training plans. Check it out:
Update 2023-10-26: I’ve scaled up the server resources to minimize long loading time in certain cases (e.g. boot up)
Dear fellow riders,
A bit over two months after I wrote a small computer program to manage my workouts and create training plans on Intervals.icu, I thought it might be useful to other riders as well.
I present to you Intertools, a collection of tools for Intervals.icu. So far it’s a small collection of two tools: Multi-week Training Plan Creator and Joe Friel’s Training Method Importer.
Joe Friel’s Training Method Importer
It all started when I spoke with Alex (FastFitnessTips) and got introduced to FastFitnessTips’s Free PLAN from Joe Friel’s Training Method — a configurable spreadsheet that helps you come up with a four week training plan. It is great but I longed for a tool that could automate the process instead of me having to manually copy and paste each of the workout descriptions over to my calendar on Intervals.icu, one by one.
I then created what is now Intertools’ Joe Friel’s Training Method Importer that, with a click of a button, imports the training plan generated by that spreadsheet into your Intervals.icu Library.
Multi-week Training Plan Creator
I didn’t stop there and continued writing more code. After reading super helpful and educative thoughts on the Load (TSS) weekly ramp topic, I imagined a tool like Intertools’ Multi-week Training Plan Creator.
Provided with a collection of workouts of different power zone, duration, load, and intensity, I could define a sequence of criteria (e.g. z5:120:90:95 for zone:load:time:intensity) and feed it to a program that would then rollout an entire week of workouts that sum up to a certain load, limited by time and/or intensity, each on a specific power zone. Such sequence of criteria could also include rest days. Then, for the following week, I’d increase those numbers by a certain percentage and repeat the process until I reach the desired number of weeks, while maintaining an ideal ramp rate. That’s what Intertools’ Multi-week Training Plan Creator does. Its landing page has a more detailed explanation of how it works, but the gist of it is that it helps you create a training plan that is tailored to your needs and goals.
What’s next?
Is there something I missed? Is there something I should’ve done differently? I’m more than open to feedback and suggestions. If you have any, please let me know in the comments below.
Also, I have a few ideas for more tools that I’d like to build, but I’d rather hear from you. Is there something you’d like to see next? What would be useful to you? Please, don’t hesitate to comment below.
Thank you!
