TrainingPeaks allows you to plan, track, and analyse your training all in one place. You can sync your account with your favourite apps and devices for real-time workout guidance and monitor your fitness progress with powerful data tools. Plus, training plans and coaching services guide you along the way.
The browser-based WebApp summarises uploaded workouts and fitness data, and you can use it with a training plan or with a coach. Premium adds the ability to plan workouts, analyse fitness trends and more.
The Mobile app provides on the go access to planned and completed workouts, along with a Performance Management Chart to monitor your training.
TrainingPeaks is available to runners for free. Some features require a subscription to TrainingPeaks Premium.
Plans
The WebApp app offers a library of (paid) power-based training plans.
Or find an accredited coach from a directory of coaches or using coach-match. Once connected, your coach can schedule planned workouts into your calendar.
Customisation
TrainingPeaks Premium enables you to adjust training plans, create your own plans, and build your own workouts.
Download
You can download planned workouts for free from TrainingPeaks to Garmin, COROS, Wahoo, Suunto and Polar watches. You can also sync planned workouts to the Stryd ecosystem.
You can download planned workouts to Apple Watches (using the TrainingPeaks app), but only if you use the Apple Workout app to execute the workout.
Power
TrainingPeaks does not offer a workout app.
Guided Workouts
TrainingPeaks does not offer a workout app.
Upload
You can upload completed workouts into TrainingPeaks from all sports watch brands and from Apple Health. You can also sync completed workouts to/from the Stryd ecosystem.
Workout Review
Both apps provide summary metrics for completed runs, including workout averages, ‘peaks’ by duration or distance, time in zones and per-lap averages.
The apps do not provide second-by-second numbers, or actuals vs. target.
Metrics
Both apps present a Performance Management Chart showing cumulative training loads (shorter-term and longer-term) and daily stress balance.
Both apps provide ‘peaks’ (charting workout maximums by duration or distance), and while the WebApp alerts runners to potential changes in threshold, it will only do so for heart rate or pace, not running power.
Neither app calculates threshold power, charts a Power-Duration Curve, or provides Running Effectiveness (instead relying on WKO for that).
Neither app provides a weekly Ramp Rate, but you can manually track Ramp Rate using CTL from the Performance Management Chart.
Neither app offers custom metrics.
Events
TrainingPeaks does not offer a race/event calculator.
Coaching
Coaches can accept connections from multiple runners (depending on runner and coach subscriptions).
Once connected, coaches can plan workouts for their runners, review completed workouts and per-runner metrics, and two-way communication is available via comments on individual workouts.
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