4 week Beginners ‘Lockdown’ Plan - (medium volume 6.5-7.75 hours, fully reusable, coach email support)

This plan is built around most people’s current situation of having nowhere to swim and limited time outside to train. The majority of this programme is based around indoor training but can quite easily be adapted to suit for any time you can actually spend outside. Based heavily around skill development this plan is perfect for all levels of athlete across all distances. You should be currently biking 2-3 times a week up to 45-60 mins and running 2 times a week for around 15-30 mins before starting this programme. This plan uses bodyweight only exercises for the swim replacement sessions, heart rate for the bike and heart rate for the run. There is a planned day off from training every Monday to allow for good recovery, but you can move this around to fit within your current schedule.
You will need a bit of space for the strength sessions and some stretch cords if you have them (no other real equipment required as they are all bodyweight exercises), a turbo trainer and either a treadmill or some time to run outside (max of 90 mins). Take a look at our complete beginner’s plan if you need to work up to the required base fitness here.

All bike and run sessions are built as structured workouts which can be downloaded directly to your training device (for zwift, trainer road etc please see our power based plans) to allow you to focus on the workout specifics rather than thinking about how to execute the next section.

All of our plans come with email coach support info@tccendurance.com and an option to change plans if you feel you need more or less volume etc.

Key points of the plan:

• Starts at 6.5 hours a week (Strength 1:15, Bike 3:30 and run 1:45)


• Peaks at 7.45 hours a week (Strength 1:15, Bike 4:00 and run 2:30)


• Average of 3 strength, 3 bikes and 3 runs per week)


• Longest Strength 30 min)


• Longest Bike 2 hours)


• Longest Run 1 hour 30 min)

This plan is based around heart rate for the run and heart rate for the bike, therefore a gps watch with heart rate monitor and a power metre are required to get the best out of this programme. If you need a Power based, pace only or RPE based plan please check out our other available plans here. If you don’t see what you want/need we also offer bespoke plans built to your requirements, please email us at info@tccendurance.com for more information and to discuss your plan with one of our coaches.