Standard Workout and Training Plan Library

Feature Requests
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I would love to have a library of 30-40 of the most common workouts organized by TSS, time in zone and adaptation target.

Also, a few typical Base, Build, and Target plans polarized, pyramidal, SS and in Low, Mid, High Vol.

Switching away from TR and looking for another planning platform. I liked them and learned a lot, but, I was annoyed that all their plans were SS focused and found the whole experience a little clunky. I love Intervals.icu!!! It is so cool to be able to see the fitness fatigue graphs adapt as I plot out a training plan. Gonna muck around with it for a month, make sure I can get my workouts pushed to the trainer and headunits effectively, then sign me up for monthly Patreon. @david , you’re the best man.

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Hi,

You already know www.Trainerday.com I think it is an excellent solution, and if you are interested in the premium version, as I am a friend of the owner, maybe I can get a discount :wink: :wink:

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Sure, easy enough. TrainerDay is nice. But, honestly, there’s like 30 workouts that cover 95% of what people need to do. Just build a small library and share it across users?

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Tx. I am planning to add pages for organisations (teams / clubs / coaching businesses) at some point (soon I hope) which would be where such training plans could go. These will be searchable. Eventually coaches will be able to sell plans etc.

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Should we get the ball rolling and share a favourite workout?

Here’s a simple one that I’ve been doing lately in my attempt to train polarised.

4x8mins

- 10m 50%

2x
- 8m 106%
- 2m 40%

- 3m 50%

2x
- 8m 106%
- 2m 40%

- 12m 50%
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I’m building the set of workouts from this excellent VeloNews article: The VeloNews Training Plan, part 2: Building your plan – VeloNews.com

Will post it here once built.

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Really interesting, thanks for sharing

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@david I built a folder of workouts from that VeloNews article and just realized there is no way to actually share the folder except with individuals. Is there a work around in the P2P? Can I share my library without sharing all of my training data? Or, do I need to export all to .zwo’s and share the folder to a cloud drive?

Thanks!!!

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Would be good to be able to share a workout folder with the entire community (right now I can only share with followers or coached athletes). If we could post workouts in a shared/searchable space everybody could benefit from it.
Ideally, long term, same thing would be for training plans.

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I don´t know the possibility, but in trainerday.com we can make and share workouts/plan, if we have in this forum a thread with names and direct link to trainerday.com maybe work

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Making it possible to share workout folders, training plans and so on with everyone is on the todo list. I plan to add pages for clubs/teams/coaches etc where people can publish folders, plans, workouts etc and make that searchable.

I do need to be a bit careful what ends up on the pages because that starts to become “social” and thats Strava turf.

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@Ben @david Can one of you guys let me know if this method of sharing works and is acceptable in the forum.

Done. I built these workouts based as best I could on these two articles in VeloNews:
Part 1: VeloNews Training Plan, part 1: The fundamentals – VeloNews.com
Part 2: The VeloNews Training Plan, part 2: Building your plan – VeloNews.com

Exports to .ZWO’s here should be viewable and downloadable:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FAet4CKKl9w5RBv_lYW5i3YITJHfTSNQ?usp=sharing

Would love to see how other people use/modify/improve these!!! If you take them, do leave a comment and suggestions once you’ve tried them. Thanks!!!

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Thats awesome. Thanks for sharing! Thats a good way to do it until something better is built!

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Thanks @Chris_Starkey,

Downloaded and reuploaded them into a new folder. Be good @david if we could do this in bulk.

How did you decide on the percentages? Something I’ve not quite worked out yet. Is it like 90% of your season best effort.

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@Chris_Starkey: Would you share a folder of these workouts with me from within Intervals ICU?

@david: Does sharing a workout folder with someone also make them a follower or are those separate permissions?

Thanks,
Max

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@Max_Nelson It doesn’t seem to as I can see the folder you shared but can’t see you’re data. That’s great!!! Thanks again, @David.

One thing that would be great in that workout library is something to indicate what the workout looks like, a mini-graph with zones, or time in zone, or something else. It would make it a lot easier to select and place workouts.

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@Max_Nelson These workouts you shared are great. Thanks!

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Thanks and same to you! It “fun” making these workouts and or changing ones from other sources. One thing I always have to do is get rid of ramps and change them to steps since Garmin head units don’t support ramps.

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Ah shoot, I haven’t sorted out the exports to the Garmin head unit or tested out all the ZWO exports yet. Does Garmin have an issue with power ranges as well?

@david Has anyone produced a list of what workout annotations/structures work and don’t work when exporting between formats/headunits/softwares?

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@Max_Nelson Sharing a workout folder with someone doesn’t grant them any permissions to anything else.

@Chris_Starkey I don’t think there is such a list anywhere yet. I will try sort one out with what I know.

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