Masterclass #6 · Events and the annual plan in TrainerPlan

How to plan your athlete's season: create their races with A, B or C priority and add participants, and generate a complete annual plan from them, with its mesocycles, the volume week by week, the recovery weeks and each week's goal in the calendar.

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In this video

• 00:00 Introduction
• 00:12 Creating the race and its participants
• 00:36 Annual Planning
• 00:48 The season generator
• 01:12 The season at a glance
• 01:29 Week by week, editable
• 01:42 Planned versus completed
• 01:56 Saving and seeing it in the calendar

Create the race and its participants

The season starts with the races.

1. In Events, click Add event.
2. Enter the title and the date, and choose the priority, from A to C. This is what the plan will use later to organise the season.
3. Choose the sport and the distance.
4. Add the athletes who are going to race it, searching for them by name.
5. Save. The race appears in their calendar.

Annual Planning and the season generator

With the races in place, open the athlete and go to the annual plan, ATP. This is where their seasons are.

1. Click New Annual Plan.
2. Fill in what the generator asks for:
   • The name of the plan.
   • The start and end dates.
   • Whether you measure in duration, distance or Effort.
   • The weekly average.
   • How often you want a recovery week.
3. Below, add the season's races, each with its priority. A races get a full peak and taper, and B races just a short taper.
4. Generate the plan.

The season at a glance

In seconds you have the whole season:

• Each week's volume.
• The races marked with their priority.
• Below, the mesocycles: base, build, peak, race and transition, with their recovery weeks, for example one every four.
• At the top, the total for the year.

Week by week, editable

The same season is also shown as a table: each week with its event, its period and the planned volume. Everything is editable. You can change a week's mesocycle or adjust its volume by hand.

Planned versus completed

As your athlete trains, the completed column fills in on its own, and the chart's bars fill with what they have actually done, on top of what you had planned.

Save and see it in the calendar

When you are happy with the plan, click Save plan. From that moment, each week's target appears in the calendar, next to what your athlete is completing.

Related articles

• Generate an annual training plan (ATP)
• Create and manage your events in just a few steps
• Training load: Effort, power, Fitness, Fatigue and Form

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