Welcome to TrainingPeaks, Coach! Everything you need to know to get started with your coach account.

To add a new athlete to your coach account select “+ Athlete” at the top of your Athlete Library. You will be given a unique link that you can either email to your new athlete or copy and send to them however you like.

When the athlete clicks that link their existing account will be connected to yours, or they will be prompted to create a new account which will be automatically added to your list of athletes.

You can load an athlete to any of the main views by clicking their name in the Athlete library and selecting “load”, or by dragging them directly onto the center view. From the Calendar view, you can also quickly switch between athletes by clicking the athlete’s name above the calendar.

Click on an athlete in your library and then click the gear icon in the upper right corner of the card to access that athlete’s account settings and update their thresholds and zones. You can also access an athlete’s settings from the gear icon next to their name at the top of the calendar.

You can group your athletes for easier planning, review, and management. Athlete groups can be loaded separately in the Home view and in the Group Calendar. Athletes won’t see what group they are in.

Click on the “Manage Athletes” link at the top of your Athlete library to view an administration page with more advanced features for managing your athletes including bulk actions (remove, share, or group multiple athletes at once). There are also advanced sorting and filtering options to easily see which athletes you are paying for, which are paying for their own accounts, and which are shared.

Add a new workout to an athlete calendar by click the “+” on any day. As you create workouts you can drag them into any of your Workout Library folders and it will make a copy that you can reuse in the future by dragging them from the library folder to the calendar

Select the “Build Workout” option when creating workouts to build a Structured Workout that will automatically calculate the total duration and other metrics and update the target power, pace, or heart rate values based on the athlete’s threshold when applied to an athlete’s calendar. Structured workouts can also be synced to a number of devices and indoor training platforms.

• Use the search bar at the top of your library to find workouts based on the title or description.
• “Recents” shows your 10 most recently used workouts.
• “Filter” helps you find specific workouts based on type (Swim, bike, run, etc), distance, duration, or TSS, or by Intensity Type (heart rate, power, pace, RPE).

Click the ‘+’ button in the Training Plan Library pane and select ‘Create a Training Plan’. To start, name the plan and then click ‘create’, and a blank calendar template will appear, to which you can begin adding workouts just like you would an athlete calendar.

Once you’re finished building your training plan, you can apply it to any athlete. From the Training Plan Library pane, click the training plan you created, a pop-up window will appear, and then select the athlete(s) to whom you’d like to apply the training plan. Choose a start (or end date!) and click ‘apply’, and  ​TrainingPeaks will apply your training plan to all selected athletes.

If you want to see the training plan you created in the TrainingPeaks marketplace, select the plan again, click the three dots at the top right of the pop-up window, click edit, and then select ‘Publish Plan’. From there, enter a price, choose a sample week to show to prospective buyers, and then check the box next to ‘Add to the training plan marketplace’. Your plan is now live!

• The Dashboard has a variety of charts and reports to help you track your athletes’ trends and performances over time. Add new charts to your Dashboard from the chart library on the left side of the view.
• The Dashboard is where you can view the detailed Performance Management Chart to help you track and plan the training load for your athletes.

• Quickly switch athletes by clicking the athlete name at the top of the calendar. Access that athlete’s settings by clicking the gear icon next to their name.
• Quickly jump to a different date by clicking on the date at the top of the calendar to open the date picker.
• Plan workouts for your athletes by dragging and dropping workouts from your Workout Libraries onto the calendar, clicking the “+” on a day to create a new blank workout, or copying and pasting existing workouts. Click the ☰ on the workout card a single workout and click the ☰ in the day header to paste a workout or to copy all of the workouts from that day.
• Copy and paste multiple days or weeks of workouts at a one time by clicking the day header of the first day, hold down the shift key, and then click the day header of the last day to select all of the workouts in that range.
• Click on completed workouts to view basic information about that workout. Select “Analyze” to open the expanded workout view for more detailed information and to view the map, graph, and other charts for that workout. Charts in the Analysis view can be rearranged, resized, and additional charts can be added by selecting them from the chart library icon in the top middle of the analysis view.