Week Summary:Annual Training Plan (ATP)

After you have created an Annual Training Plan you can the ATP items to the week summary of your calendar by dragging them from 'Available' to 'In Use'. This makes the items visible on the right side of the calendar to help guide your weekly planning.

Note: You must have a completed Annual Training Plan (ATP) for these items to appear.

Additional Resources
Click here to enroll in a free, in-depth mini course on using the Annual Training Plan. 

2. Calendar

The calendar is where you plan and analyze  your athletes' training. See detailed description of each of the icons below. 

1.  Plan a Workout, log a Metric, add a Goal or Event
1. Click  to use the Workout Builder to automatically create a structured workout containing detailed intervals.
2.  Athlete Library: Add or manage athletes or create a new group.
3.  Save a Workout to your Workout Library for future use
4.  Training Plan Library: Create, Share, or Manage a Training Plan
5. Analyze a device file
   1. Click on a Workout to access the Quick View which contains summary information about the workout
   2.  Click Analyze to analyze a file with charts and graphs in the Expanded View
6.  Refresh page
7.  Search workouts

Expanded View

The expanded analysis view is where you go to perform in depth analysis of your athletes' uploaded workouts. 

1. Click the Files button  to download the original file or recalculate metrics.
2. Click the summary button  to return to the QuickView.
3. Click the charts icon  to open the charts library and add new charts to your view.
4. Click the comment icon   to review the workout description or add and review comments.
5. Click the elevation icon  to perform an Elevation Correction. 
6. Go the corner of a chart and drag this icon  to resize the window.

3. Home

The Home view provides you with an easy way to get an overview of each of your Athlete Groups to see who needs immediate attention. The Home view provides a quick overview of an Athlete Group's recently updated workouts, upcoming planned workouts, recently updated metrics, threshold changes, and even if an athlete's account is expiring and needs to be upgraded.

Colored Compliance Dots

Colored compliance dots show how well your athlete's completed workouts for the last 7 days, or if they need to catch up on uploading or filling in workout details. If an athlete had multiple planned workouts on a day they must all be compliant for the dot to turn green, otherwise, it will be yellow.

Alerts

Alerts indicate if an athlete may need to have their threshold settings updated or their training plan adjusted due to illness or injury. You will also receive an alert if an athlete's self-paid Premium account is going to expire soon and they need to renew their Premium subscription or be converted to a Coach Paid Premium account. 

3. Activity Feed

The activity feed on the right side of the Home view provides more detail about recent activity from that selected group of athletes

• Completed workouts
• Workout comments
• Threshold notifications
• Completed metrics

You can filter the feed to show only completed workouts, workout comments, metrics, or unread items using the icons at the top of the feed. A blue dot to the right of an item in the feed indicates that it hasn't been read yet.

4. Dashboard

The dashboard allows you to monitor progress and track trends over time. New charts can be added to your dashboard from your charts library. Many of the charts can be customized by date range, sport type, and/or channel. The dashboard is where you'll find the Performance Management Chart.  

1. Drag and drop charts to your dashboard from your charts library .
2. Customize charts under under settings .
3. Add the same chart multiple times but customize it to view the data for different date ranges, sports, or in a different way.
4. The Performance Manager Chart allows you to model your Fitness, Fatigue, and Form to help you plan the perfect peak for your athlete's goal Event.

Discover the top 7 charts for coaches.

5. ATP (Annual Training Plan)

The ATP, or Annual Training Plan, is where you will go to create a seasonal road map to help guide your planning. The automatic ATP generator is based on Joe Friel's methodology using periods such as Base 1-3, Build 1 and 2, and Peak. You can also create a manual ATP wth your own custom period names. In addition, ATPs can be created based on weekly hours, weekly training stress score, and target Chronic Training Load for that event. 

1. Create new ATP 
2. Select existing ATP
3. Edit current ATP 
4. Adjust ATP Settings 

Learn more about Annual Training Plan Methodologies and How to Plan Your Season with Training Stress Score

6. Athlete Library

1.  Add new Athlete or Group
2. Load athlete 'card'
3. Athlete Account Settings
4. Share, Unshare, or Remove athlete from your account

Athlete Account Settings

Profile

• Update athlete's personal information (Name, address, birthdate, etc.)
• Upload a profile photo
• Update/Verify athlete's email address (email address must be verified to receive daily workout emails, notifications, and/or newsletter)
• Change athlete's Password

Settings

• Change Unit Preference (i.e. English/Metric)

Coaches

See which coach(es) the athlete is currently attached to or shared with. Add a coach, share athlete with a coach, or remove coaches.

Calendar

• Paste this url into your Google, Outlook, Apple, or other third party calendar to sync athlete's TrainingPeaks workouts to that calendar

Email Options

• Enable email of daily planned workouts, change delivery time, and opt in for the TrainingPeaks newsletter

Notifications

• Enable/Disable notifications such as uploaded workouts, comments from you, or suggested threshold changes

Zones

Heart Rate, Power, Speed/Pace

• Set athlete's thresholds and zones
  • Typically
    • Heart Rate for Bike and Run
    • Power for Bike
    • Speed/Pace for Run and Swim
    • Note: if you do not set a threshold for a specific sport and upload that sport type 'default' will be used.
    • Note: Setting athlete's thresholds and zones is extremely important since all of the TrainingPeaks metrics are based on thresholds.

    Notifications

    
    • Enable/Disable Threshold Notifications
    • Enable/Disable 'Automatically apply new threshold'

    Nutrition

    

    Enter a daily calorie goal based on how many calories you want the athlete to consume exluding those that they would burn through exercise,. This number will be combined with the caloric expenditure from exercise and displayed in dashboard charts that display calories consumed vs calories expended

    Equipment

    Bikes/Shoes

    Add bikes and/or shoes to track the mileage. Equipment can be selected from the workout QuickView and mileage will automatically accrue based on completed workouts

    Layout

    'Layout' allows you to customize what the athlete sees on their calendar, the week summary, QuickViews, and what metrics are available.

    Calendar

    

    • Moving data items from 'available' to 'in use' will make them visible on your athlete's calendar.

    Compliance

    

    Completed workouts will colorize based on compliance with planned duration, distance, or TSS. Moving the data item up or down in the list prioritizes it with top being given top priority.

    Within 20% the workout will turn green, within 50% it will turn yellow, and over or under by more than 50% will turn red.

    

    QuickViews

    

    Dragging data items from 'Available' to 'In Use' makes the fields visible in the workout QuickViews.

    These settings are sport specified allowing QuickViews to be configured differently for different sport types.

    Metrics

    

    Dragging metrics from 'available' to 'In Use' makes the metrics available to your athlete when adding a metric on their calendar.

    Week Summary

    

    Dragging ATP items from 'Available' to 'In Use' makes the items visible on the right side of your athlete's calendar.

    Note: You must have a completed Annual Training Plan (ATP) for the athlete for these items to appear.

    7. Workout Library

    

    Click the + icon to create a new workout library.

    • Save workouts created on your calendar to your workout library by dragging and dropping into the library

    Rename a workout library by clicking the  hamburger icon

    8. Training Plan Library

    Create Training Plans which can be applied to athletes or sold in the TrainingPeaks plan store.

    

If you need further assistance, check out the Get Started web page or contact our support team here.