Create a Training Plan

Trainingload.ai supports two plan creation paths:

• Manual plan: you build the plan week by week.
• AI-assisted plan: you provide a brief, then AI Coach drafts a plan for review.

Both paths produce the same core object: a structured training plan with weeks, days, workouts, sport types, planned workout text, and optional notes.

Before you create a plan

Check these items first:

• Your profile and thresholds are up to date.
• Your recent activities have finished processing.
• Your training goal is specific enough to guide scheduling.
• Your available training days and session duration are realistic.

Thresholds and recent activity history help Trainingload.ai estimate plan load and give AI Coach better context. If those inputs are missing, the plan can still be created, but load estimates and recommendations may be less precise.

Manual plan

Use the manual flow when you already know the structure you want.

The manual flow usually has three steps:

• Enter the plan name, duration, and description.
• Add workouts to the weekly calendar.
• Review the plan preview and save it.

Each workout can include:

• Sport type.
• Week, day, and session order.
• Workout text.
• Workout name.
• Notes.

Manual plans are useful when a coach has already written the training, or when you are copying a plan from another source and want Trainingload.ai to track execution.

AI-assisted plan

Use the AI flow when you want Trainingload.ai to help draft the structure.

The plan brief can include:

• Main sport or sports.
• Training intent, such as race preparation, fitness build, skill focus, return to training, or health and fat loss.
• Plan duration.
• Weekly training days.
• Typical daily training time.
• Race discipline and distance when relevant.

After you submit the brief, AI Coach receives the plan request and can generate a draft. Review the draft before saving it as a plan.

Review the draft

Before saving or activating a plan, check:

• Does the weekly rhythm match your real schedule?
• Are hard days separated well enough from other hard days?
• Are easy or recovery days actually easy?
• Does the plan start from your current fitness rather than your target fitness?
• Are sport types and workout descriptions correct?
• Is the total volume plausible for the next few weeks?

If something is off, edit the plan before you activate it.

Save vs activate

A saved plan may still be a draft. A draft is useful for review, editing, or comparison.

Activate the plan when you are ready to execute it. Activation gives the plan a start date and lets Trainingload.ai treat its workouts as the current schedule.

After activation, the plan can be connected to:

• Calendar and current plan views.
• Completed activities.
• Expected vs actual load.
• AI Coach follow-up.

Expected load

Trainingload.ai can estimate the expected load of planned workouts when the workout structure and your thresholds provide enough signal.

In general:

• Draft plans may not have final expected-load snapshots.
• Active or paused plans can use expected load during execution review.
• Expected load is an estimate, not a promise of how the workout will feel.

Read Training Load for the metric background.

After creating the plan

Open the plan detail page and confirm:

• Plan status.
• Start date.
• Week-by-week structure.
• Workout count.
• Completion and load summary.

Then use Manage an Active Plan to execute the plan day by day.