Manage an Active Plan

An active plan is the plan Trainingload.ai treats as your current schedule. It connects planned workouts, completed activities, training load, and AI Coach follow-up.

Open it from the main Plan area, or open a specific plan from the plan list.

Before you begin

• Activate the intended plan with the correct start date.
• Confirm profile time zone and current thresholds.
• Let completed activities finish processing before linking them.
• Review the current week instead of assuming the original draft still matches reality.

Daily execution workflow

1. Open the current plan and find today's planned workout.
2. Read the structure and notes before training.
3. After training, open the completed activity and confirm its identity.
4. Link it to the planned workout and update the workout status honestly.
5. Compare expected and actual load in context, then decide whether any future workout needs adjustment.

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Active plan execution

Keep workout status, linked activity, and expected-versus-actual load together before changing the remaining schedule.

Plan

4 week block

Load

steady build

Activity

matched

AI review

ready

Plan status

Plans can have these statuses:

• Draft: saved, but not started.
• Active: currently being executed.
• Paused: temporarily stopped, but still available for schedule changes.
• Completed: finished.
• Cancelled: ended before completion.

Only one plan is usually treated as the current active schedule. Draft and completed plans remain useful for review, but they are not the current execution surface.

Workout status

Each planned workout has its own status:

• Planned: scheduled but not started.
• In progress: currently being worked through or partially handled.
• Done: completed.
• Skipped: intentionally missed.
• Moved: rescheduled.

Use status changes to keep the plan honest. A skipped workout is different from a completed workout with low load, and both should be visible.

Link completed activities

Link real activities to planned workouts when they belong together.

Activity links make these comparisons possible:

• Planned session vs completed session.
• Expected load vs actual load.
• Session completion rate.
• Load compliance.
• AI Coach plan follow-up.

Trainingload.ai may suggest or create links automatically in some cases, but you can also link or unlink manually when the wrong activity is connected.

Expected vs actual load

The plan view can compare:

• Expected load: the planned workload estimate for the workout.
• Actual load: the load from the completed primary activity.

This comparison is most useful when the expected and actual load are based on compatible signals. For example, power-based planned load and power-based activity load are easier to compare than mixed-source estimates.

Use the comparison as a planning signal, not a scorecard. One workout can be intentionally lighter or harder than planned; the pattern across days and weeks matters more.

Current plan view

The current plan view is designed for daily execution. Use it to:

• See today's scheduled workouts.
• Review the current week.
• Open workout details.
• Link completed activities.
• Mark a workout done or skipped.
• Move workouts when the schedule changes.
• Compare weekly planned and completed load.

Use Calendar when you want the same plan and activity data in a broader date-based view.

When the plan is active or paused, schedule changes can be applied to unfinished workouts. Completed or skipped workouts should generally stay as historical records.

Plan detail view

The plan detail page is better for reviewing the whole cycle. Use it to:

• Check plan metadata and status.
• Activate a draft.
• Review week-by-week structure.
• Inspect workout charts or descriptions.
• See execution summaries.
• Ask AI Coach to review remaining work.

From a plan detail page, the AI Coach follow-up includes plan context and the number of unfinished workouts.

When to adjust the plan

Adjust the plan when the schedule and reality have clearly diverged.

Common reasons:

• Missed workouts are accumulating.
• Actual load is repeatedly higher than planned.
• Fatigue is rising faster than fitness.
• A race, travel day, or recovery need changes the next week.
• A key workout was completed, but the response was very different from expected.

Avoid changing the plan after every small fluctuation. The goal is to keep the plan aligned with reality without losing the training intent.

Ask AI Coach

Helpful prompts:

• "Review my current plan progress and load."
• "Which unfinished workouts matter most this week?"
• "Should I move tomorrow's workout after today's hard session?"
• "My actual load is above plan for two weeks. What should change?"
• "Help me adjust the next seven days without losing the main goal."

Verify the current state

• The plan start date maps workouts to the intended calendar days.
• Today's workout has the correct status and notes.
• The linked activity is the real session that fulfilled the workout.
• Expected and actual load retain their separate sources and meanings.
• Completed or skipped history remains unchanged when unfinished workouts move.

Troubleshooting

• No current plan appears: confirm that the intended plan is Active rather than Draft, Paused, Completed, or Cancelled.
• An activity will not link: check date range, sport compatibility, processing state, and whether it is already linked elsewhere.
• The wrong activity linked automatically: unlink it and manually choose the correct activity after verifying start time and sport.
• A plan edit conflicts: another device or AI action changed the version; refresh and review the newer plan before retrying.
• Actual load is unavailable: inspect the completed activity and its load source rather than editing the planned estimate.

Next steps

• Calendar
• Activity Detail
• AI Coach