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Custom Training Plan Builder

This training tip & podcast is about figuring out how much time to train, when to get specific for your goals and timing everything just right.  We’ll talk about the weights and base phases of annual training and how to work your way backwards from your A race or event. In other words, all the questions we ask you when building your custom annual training plan. 

There are 4 questions are:
  1. How much time you have to train each week?
  2. What you are training for?
  3. If an event, what kind it is?
  4. When the event is?
With the 'event' being your A race or timeframe (like next season or the Summer riding season).

After you answer those 4 questions you will get a custom plan like this one below based on the athlete starting their training in September and targeting a Gravel race April 20th of the following year.

CoachCat works backwards building a sequence of training plans (phases) to drop you off on race day ready to rip. 
Those three phases are:
  • Off season training - with weights, or not
  • Base training - with Sweet Spot
  • Interval training / event-specific plans - with long endurance training  

In this podcast, Coach Frank walks you through how to answer our four questions and to help you understand how to tweak the training process to get where you want to go.

Coach Frank also talsk about using CoachCat to help you follow your plan when life punches you in the face. 


He takes you through the custom plan builder upon onboarding to CoachCat. 

    

you'll be asked:

- how much time you have to train

- what you are training for

- what kind of event you are training for

- when that event is 

- then Start your Custom Plan ‼️

And no worries, if you can't follow the plan because because CoachCat is there to help you every step of the way when work, weather, and your available time gets in the way. 

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Try the custom plan builder for yourself where the First Month is FREE, data analysis is instant, training plans are custom and our AI Powered coach will revise your plan when work, weather, time aka "life: gets in the way.  We will also auto detect your FTP 💪

About Frank Overton

Frank founded FasCat Coaching in 2002 and has been a full time cycling coach since 2004. His educational background includes a Masters degree in Physiology from North Carolina State University, pre-med from Hampden-Sydney College. Frank raced at a professional level on the road and mountain bike and currently competes as a "masters" level gravel and cyclocrosser. Professionally Frank comes from medical school spinal cord research and molecular biotechnology. However, to this day it is a dream come true for Frank to be able to help cyclists as a coach.

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