Custom Workouts and Editing Your Plan

Easily create custom workouts using CoachCat’s chat-to-workout feature. Just type what you want—the more detail, the better—and CoachCat will instantly build the workout for you. It will then automatically appear on your training calendar, ready for planning. You can even push your custom workouts directly to your bike computer and virtual platforms like Zwift and Rouvy.

Disclaimer: for best results try to FtFP (Follow the F@ #’ing plan).  That said,  your plan needs to be flexible based on your schedule and your recovery status. 

Following your plan more than 80% of the time is ideal but do not stress because consistency and sticking with a plan for greater than six months will lead the your most improvement.

Note: Custom workouts are the best way to personalize or edit your training plan. Currently, CoachCat doesn't automatically edit your training plan because these plans are carefully designed by expert human coaches, not generated by AI*. Changing them would mess up the science and cut into your improvement! 

Our training plans flat out work and have helped thousands of amateur and masters cyclists succeed, including the athletes we coach one-on-one.  They were built by the  FasCat Coaches** who draw on years of experience as both expert coaches and competitive bike racers. 

* stay tuned because soon our AI will be able to customize your training plan from the chat as much as you want

**Frank Overton and the FasCat Coaches 

In this training tip, we’ll explain how to create a custom workout** and edit your training plan.  

Use the custom workout to also add in your events, races, group rides, and even vacations.   Here are a few examples:

1. Editing your 2-hour workout to be 1 hour

2. Replacing a workout with a group ride

3. Creating a custom VO2 Max workout

4. Creating a custom ride based on the terrain (using Zwift's Uber Pretzel)

Example # 1 To make a 2 hour workout 1 hour, tell the AI in the chat, "I can only ride for 1 hour, can you adjust the workout?" 

Step 1:

once you have your proposed new workout you have the option to ask for further edits or a completely different option.  

Step 2:

the final step is to delete your former workout (open the workout, select the 3 dots in the upper right and select 'delete').

Step 3: 

Example # 2 To replace a workout with a group ride, "I have group ride on Wednesday, will you replace that with the workout for the day, please?"

Note how even CoachCat will not edit workouts but will offer to put new custom workouts on your calendar.  In this case, CoachCat creates a custom workout based on the description '4 hard efforts and a sprint at the end'. 

Note: you do not have to follow this structure, it is merely representative of how the group ride goes. (and remember to delete your former workout)

Example # 3 Creating a Custom VO2 Max Workout

See how CoachCat gives you a traditional 2 set, 3 minute VO2 Max workout? You may ask for even more customization: 

The sky is the limit for asking what you want.  Here's the custom VO2 Max Workout, that you may push to your bike computer or push to a virtual riding platform like Zwift or Rouvy. 

Note: you may also apply any workout in workout library to your training calendar. We have over 300 workouts organized from Zone 1 to Zone 7 for you to browse and build with. 

Example # 4 Creating a Custom Ride based on a course you are riding. In this example here is a custom workout created based on a long ride the athlete was doing on Zwift's Uber Pretzel course, with this elevation profile:

"Can you put a 5.5 hour ride on my plan that has a 20 minute sweet spot climb after 10 minute of zone 2 at the start, followed by 4 hours and 15 minutes of zone 2 and temp a 75 minute threshold climb up the Alpe du Zwift climb to finish? Total OTS should be 375!"

Et voila!

As you can hopefully see, the possibilities are endless - all you have to do is type what you want in the CoachCat chat and review the response.  This is how you can get exactly what you want and edit your training plan. 

As always the FasCat Coaches are standing by to help if you want a second, 'human opinion'.  We offer a complimentary coaching consultation for all new CoachCat App athletes as well a custom one-on-one coaching if you want more customization. 

COPYRIGHT © 2025 FASCAT COACHING. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Customize your workouts with AI in the CoachCat app. Use CoachCat to elevate your cycling with custom workouts, training plans, personalized nutrition, weight loss, and smarter sleep.

The First Month is FREE, data analysis is instant,  and your AI coach (CoachCat) will revise your plan when work, weather, time aka "life" gets in the way.  We will also help you craft custom workouts like the ones described in this training tip.