I use the TrainingPeaks app, and it's pretty good. I use it to coach people at different levels. My background is that I am a powerlifting coach and a regional coach in Norway. I coach several athletes on the more specialized side.
Over time, I have worked my way into the "hybrid athlete" concept and thus train people who want the combination of strength and conditioning.
The problem here is that even though TrainingPeaks' strength builder is good, it lacks some very specific things that are a deal-breaker for me.
The way I work is that I find a potential PR in an athlete and use this to work with percentages. So the training sessions will be specific with repetitions and sets based on a theoretical max (which we have already figured out). This means that they are told how much they can lift (as well as RPE in addition, since there is always some leeway).
I coach people up to the top level internationally, and quite a few nationally. But these programs I use cannot be combined with TrainingPeaks because there is no way to pre-register what weights people should lift (based on a max).
What I wish existed was an opportunity to enter, for example, the maximum load on the exercises, and then select this in the same way that we do with the threshold for running, for example, using percentages of the value that are preset.
example -
Lifter lifts 1 rep x 100 kg in squat -
My program om week one.
80 percent of max - 4 sets - 5 reps - and the program says 80 kg
Week two - 85 percent of max 4 - septs 3 reps. 85 -
And so on.
That way I can create structured training programs over e.g. 12 weeks, which calculates how much people should lift, and not just run/cycle.
Is there any possibility that this is coming?
Alternatively, is there a way to import CSV with finished programs into athletes? So that I can create a program in advance and add it?
Now it becomes an awful lot of work when I have to manually enter the weights to be lifted. And it means that I have one program for strength and one for the rest. One foot in and one foot out.
Hope this can be of interest, I'd love to sell some of my plans like others do if it becomes possible with you later, via structured training.
Hope this gives you some good ideas! And I get everything together in one place.
Loyd Færøvik supported this idea ·
I use the TrainingPeaks app, and it's pretty good. I use it to coach people at different levels. My background is that I am a powerlifting coach and a regional coach in Norway. I coach several athletes on the more specialized side.
Over time, I have worked my way into the "hybrid athlete" concept and thus train people who want the combination of strength and conditioning.
The problem here is that even though TrainingPeaks' strength builder is good, it lacks some very specific things that are a deal-breaker for me.
The way I work is that I find a potential PR in an athlete and use this to work with percentages. So the training sessions will be specific with repetitions and sets based on a theoretical max (which we have already figured out). This means that they are told how much they can lift (as well as RPE in addition, since there is always some leeway).
I coach people up to the top level internationally, and quite a few nationally. But these programs I use cannot be combined with TrainingPeaks because there is no way to pre-register what weights people should lift (based on a max).
What I wish existed was an opportunity to enter, for example, the maximum load on the exercises, and then select this in the same way that we do with the threshold for running, for example, using percentages of the value that are preset.
example -
Lifter lifts 1 rep x 100 kg in squat -
My program om week one.
80 percent of max - 4 sets - 5 reps - and the program says 80 kg
Week two - 85 percent of max 4 - septs 3 reps. 85 -
And so on.
That way I can create structured training programs over e.g. 12 weeks, which calculates how much people should lift, and not just run/cycle.
Is there any possibility that this is coming?
Alternatively, is there a way to import CSV with finished programs into athletes? So that I can create a program in advance and add it?
Now it becomes an awful lot of work when I have to manually enter the weights to be lifted. And it means that I have one program for strength and one for the rest. One foot in and one foot out.
Hope this can be of interest, I'd love to sell some of my plans like others do if it becomes possible with you later, via structured training.
Hope this gives you some good ideas! And I get everything together in one place.