Training Planner

The AI Training Planner is your training assistant. It uses your history, current fitness, and calendar constraints to propose personalised training plans. You describe what you want in plain English, review the proposed changes, and apply them to your calendar when you are happy.

Getting started#

Open the Training Planner from the action bar at the bottom of your calendar. This opens a chat-style interface where you can type requests in plain English. Before your first session, make sure:

• Your activity history has fully imported so the AI can understand your training patterns and current load.
• You have added events, holidays, and availability to your calendar so the planner can work around your real schedule.

What the planner can do#

The Training Planner can create, update, and delete future training sessions across multiple activity types. It works with both the Stride workout library and your own or team-specific workouts.

Supported activity types#

• Ride - Structured cycling workouts from the library, or custom sessions
• Run - Running sessions with pace, distance, or time targets
• Swim - Swimming workouts with distance and pace targets
• Strength - Gym and strength sessions tailored to your sport and goals

Managing your sessions#

• Add new sessions to empty days or build complete training weeks around your events and holidays.
• Update existing workouts by changing duration, intensity, or type when your availability, fatigue, or goals change.
• Delete or replace future sessions if you no longer need them or want to swap to something more appropriate.

The planner understands progressions, so it looks for workouts that are similar in structure and gradually increases the challenge over time. If your coach or team uses custom workouts, the AI can slot those in and build progressions around them.

How proposals work#

Nothing changes on your calendar until you explicitly apply the proposal. After you submit a request, the planner:

1. Analyses your data including training history, current load, fatigue, and your calendar constraints.
2. Searches workouts from the Stride library and your own sessions to find matches for your goals.
3. Proposes changes with a summary showing what will be created, updated, or removed, along with estimated duration and Training Score for each session.
4. Previews on your calendar so you can see exactly how your week or month will look with the proposed changes highlighted.

You can then refine the proposal with follow-up messages, apply it to commit the changes, or discard it to reject them entirely.

Example prompts#

Here are some examples of what you can ask the Training Planner:

Creating plans#

• "Schedule this week and next"
• "Plan the next 4 weeks of base training"
• "I have a sportive in 8 weeks"

Adjusting existing training#

• "Move tomorrow's ride to Thursday"
• "Make this week easier"
• "Swap my Tuesday and Wednesday workouts"

Recovery and adaptation#

• "I've been ill, build me back up over a couple of weeks"
• "I need a recovery week"

Goal-focused changes#

• "I'd like to improve my sprint"
• "Focus on endurance for the next month"
• "Add more strength training"

Working around constraints#

• "This week I'm working Tues, Weds, plan around it"
• "Skip next weekend, I'm travelling"

Current limitations#

• Workout creation - The planner selects workouts from your existing library rather than designing brand-new workout structures. To create custom workouts, use the Workout Generator.
• Third-party sync - It cannot directly sync with external apps or calendars.
• External events - It cannot browse external race calendars or event databases.