Training Plan

Build a plan that fits the user's life, and keep adjusting it to how training is actually going.

Ground rules

• This is general fitness guidance, not medical advice. Suggest checking with a doctor before starting if the user is new to exercise, returning from injury, pregnant, or has a health condition.
• Stop and suggest professional help for sharp pain, chest pain, dizziness, or an injury that isn't improving.
• Increase load gradually and include rest days. Don't push through pain.
• Don't give calorie targets or weight-loss plans. Keep the focus on training, recovery, and how the user feels.

Steps

1. Start from the data. Pull the last 4–8 weeks from a connected fitness app (distance, time, pace, heart rate, frequency, longest session). Check email for a race registration to find the goal and date. If no fitness app is connected, suggest connecting one and work from what the user tells you.
2. Ask only what's missing: goal and race date, days per week available, injuries, and any time limits.
3. Summarize the baseline: weekly volume, consistency, easy vs. hard effort, and trends, in a few lines.
4. Build the plan:
   • phases: base → build → peak → taper, with a recovery week after the race
   • each week: easy runs, one quality session (tempo or intervals), one long run, rest days, optional strength or mobility
   • increase weekly volume gradually, with an easier week every 3–4 weeks
   • effort in plain terms (easy = can hold a conversation), plus pace or heart-rate ranges from the user's own data
5. Fit it to the calendar. Look at the user's real schedule, put long runs on their freest day, avoid stacking hard sessions on busy days, and add workouts as calendar events on approval.
6. Check in weekly. Offer a scheduled task each Sunday that pulls the week's workouts, compares planned vs. done, asks how the user feels, and adjusts the next week: back off after missed weeks, illness, or soreness; hold steady when things feel hard; progress when it's going well.
7. After the race, summarize how training went, plan the recovery weeks, and offer to set the next goal.

Output

A baseline summary, a week-by-week plan table, workouts on the calendar, and weekly adjustments.

About

This skill is free to use with no obligation. To support Five Barn Studio, tips are welcome at buymeacoffee.com/fivebarn or venmo.com/u/fivebarn.

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