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Templates
Reusable plans of weeks — write one once, then give it to as many athletes as you want.
A template is a plan of weeks you write once and reuse. Find them under Templates in the sidebar.
A template belongs to you, not to an athlete. No athlete ever sees one, and nothing in a template affects anyone's training until you apply it.
A template is not a calendar
| Athlete calendar | Template | |
|---|---|---|
| Belongs to | an athlete | you |
| The athlete sees | everything, immediately | nothing, ever |
| Dates | real | week 1 day 1, relative |
| Changing it | changes the athlete's plan | changes nothing already applied |
That last row is the one to remember. Applying a template copies its workouts onto a calendar; the copies are ordinary workouts from then on. Editing the template later does not reach back to them.
Writing one
Create a template with a name and a length. The editor is the calendar's week grid with the dates taken out: rows read Week 1, Week 2, and the day columns follow your own first day of the week (Settings → Preferences).
- Add a workout on any day the same way you do on a calendar: click the day and type it —
10km easy,8x1km / 200m— then Enter. The dashed + slot under the day's name opens the full composer instead. Click a workout to rewrite it. - Right-click a workout for its own menu — category, time of day, Edit, Copy, Select this workout or Select this week, and Delete. Right-clicking the space around it still opens the day's menu.
- Walk the weeks from the keyboard. The arrow keys move a day left and right, a week up and down, and stop at the template's first and last day. ⌘V puts the clipboard down on the day you're on — including a week copied off an athlete's calendar, or a plan pasted straight out of a spreadsheet.
- Move a workout by dragging it to another day, or up and down within a day to reorder it. Hold Alt while dragging to leave the original where it is and drop a copy on the new day.
- Add or remove a week from the week header. Removing a week closes the gap behind it, so the weeks stay consecutive.
- ⌘Z and ⌘⇧Z (Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Shift+Z on Windows) undo and redo, as far back as you like. Changes save as you make them.
- A template holds up to 52 weeks and 1000 workouts.
What the workouts say
A workout in a template is drawn as the workout it will become — the same card, from the same numbers an apply would land. Paces, distances and load only exist against an athlete, though, and a template belongs to none, so a card shows an estimated duration and nothing else until you name someone.
Preview for an athlete in the editor header does that naming. Pick one of your athletes and every workout re-prices against their zones: what a @ Z2 hour costs them, how far their 8x3min covers. The header then reads Previewing for them, because that is all it is — a way of reading the template, not part of it. Nothing is changed, nothing is written to their calendar, and nobody else sees the choice.
Hover a workout to read its notation.
Write in zones, not in paces
A template given to seven athletes should mean seven different things for them. Zone targets like @ Z2 and time-based work like 8x3min re-price themselves for whoever receives them. An absolute pace like @ 3:45/km and a fixed rep distance do not — they mean the same thing for everyone, which is sometimes what you want and usually not.
Nothing stops you writing an absolute pace. It is worth knowing which kind you wrote.
Copying between a template and a calendar
The clipboard crosses the two, both ways, with the same gesture.
- Out of a template: Copy on a week header, then open any athlete's calendar and paste.
- Into a template: copy on a calendar (⌘C, or Copy week on the week header), then open a template and either right-click the day you want it on, or click that day and press ⌘V.
To take some of a week rather than all of it, ⌘-click (Ctrl-click on Windows) each workout, or Shift-click to take a range, then Copy in the bar that appears at the bottom — ⌘C does the same. Esc drops the selection. Put them down on the day you want them on: right-click it, or click it and press ⌘V.
A week keeps its weekdays: Tuesday's workout lands on Tuesday, the long run on Sunday, whichever day of the target week you click. Workouts you picked out by hand land on the day you put them down on instead, keeping the gaps between them — two sessions three days apart land three days apart. A plan that runs past the end of a template lengthens it.
See Calendar for how copying works on the calendar side.
Giving a template to athletes
Apply to athletes — from the row menu on the templates list, or the button in the editor. Pick the athletes and one start date.
| Start | Week 1 day 1 lands on |
|---|---|
| Align to the week (default) | the start of the week containing the date you picked |
| Exact date | the date you picked |
Aligning is the default because a training week is weekday-shaped: the long run is at the weekend because that is when people have time, and weekly summaries are measured on real week boundaries. Start a plan on a Wednesday without aligning and every workout moves two days off the weekday you wrote it on. Use the exact date when the plan genuinely starts mid-week — a taper beginning the day after a camp ends.
Applying adds. Nothing already on the athlete's calendar is replaced, and a workout that lands on a day that already holds one goes below it.
The result reports per athlete, because a run of seven can partly fail. An athlete with no pace zones cannot receive a plan that paces by zone — they're flagged in the list before you apply, and refused whole rather than given half a plan.
Your own workouts
The workouts in your templates are offered back to you whenever you add a workout, above the framework ones and grouped under the template each came from. See Workouts.