Having more time until a goal event presents an excellent opportunity to take your fitness to the next level. But how can you structure that extra time for maximum benefit? Using Plan Builder takes out the guesswork and customizes your training plan, so you get the most from the surplus time.
What Is Plan Builder?
Plan Builder is personalized training designed to make you faster. It takes into account your current training volume, experience, and the demands of your goal event to create the optimal plan for you. To optimize your extra time, Plan Builder will customize the training phases based on your specific needs.
What If I Have Too Much Time For My Goal Event?
Plan Builder accounts for your timeframe making sure you make the most of the extra time. Let’s check out some examples.
Jordan is currently training 4 hours per week, new to interval training, and has a gravel race in 8 months. Jordan started training 2 weeks ago.
Chloe is training 11 hours per week and has done a lot of interval training. She has a road race in 9 months.
Avery is training 5 hours per week, is somewhat experienced with interval training, and has a cross-country marathon race in 10 months.
Carmen is training 6 hours per week, has multiple years of experience with interval training, and has a half-distance triathlon in 11 months.
Personalized Training Designed Around You
These examples illustrate how Plan Builder maximizes extra time and can be backdated to include the training you’ve already completed. By adding training phases to your plan, Plan Builder will help you take your fitness to a higher level for your goal event. If you have additional time before your goal event, let Plan Builder build the perfect training plan for you.
FAQ
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I have been using Trainerroad for a long time. I really like the training plan feature of the platform and it really sets it apart from the other trainer software options. However, the training plans have far too much intensity too early in the season to be sustainable. Especially for a over-50 triathlete. I followed your mid-volume plan last year and found myself unable to complete some of the high intensity interval rides during the week because I did a long ride on Saturday that was at 0.80 IF. Most of us cannot sustainably ride like this for 20+ weeks and still run and swim on top of that. It feels like these plans are all about jacking up your FTP and not about properly preparing you for a long distance triathlon by working your energy systems in the endurance and threshold zones. Far too much Zone 3 aka “gray zone” efforts. Fortunately we are able to modify these plans. It would really nice to offer some way to provide a training that contains more polarized training in mostly Z2 with Z4/5 work sprinkled in. Save the Z3 work for the competition phase.