Sample plan

See your first week of training

Drop in your sport, level, goal, and weekly time. We generate a representative first week — the same structure SportPlan's adaptation engine produces for athletes on day 1.

This preview is static — change any input and it regenerates. The real adaptive plan inside SportPlan then adjusts every session based on your Garmin and Strava data day after day. But week 1 is week 1: the template is the same.

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Total time

6h

Sessions

5

Quality sessions

2

Mon

Rest day

Full rest. No training. Sleep priority, normal eating, light walking only if you want.

Tue

55 min

Threshold tempo

Target zones

Z4 threshold (~88% MaxHR)

Why today

Lactate clearance. Raises the pace you can sustain for an hour. Foundation of half/marathon performance.

Session details

Warm-up 15 min easy. 2×15 min at threshold pace, 3 min easy recovery between. 10 min cool-down.

Wed

68 min

Easy aerobic run

Target zones

Z2 easy (heart rate 60–70% max)

Why today

Aerobic base. 70–80% of weekly volume sits here. Mitochondria, capillary density, fat oxidation.

Session details

Conversational pace throughout. Heart rate stays under your aerobic ceiling. Walk breaks fine if needed.

Thu

55 min

Marathon-pace tempo

Target zones

Z4 threshold (~88% MaxHR)

Why today

Specific race-pace conditioning. Builds confidence at race effort and improves running economy.

Session details

Warm-up 15 min. 25–30 min continuous tempo at half-marathon to marathon pace. 10 min cool-down.

Fri

Rest day

Full rest. No training. Sleep priority, normal eating, light walking only if you want.

Sat

115 min

Long run

Target zones

Z2 sustained (60–72% max HR)

Why today

Glycogen depletion + slow-twitch fibre recruitment. The single most important session for endurance events.

Session details

Continuous easy long run. Final 15 minutes lift to marathon pace if you feel good. Fuel with one gel halfway.

Sun

68 min

Easy aerobic run

Target zones

Z2 easy (heart rate 60–70% max)

Why today

Aerobic base. 70–80% of weekly volume sits here. Mitochondria, capillary density, fat oxidation.

Session details

Conversational pace throughout. Heart rate stays under your aerobic ceiling. Walk breaks fine if needed.

What you're seeing

Polarised intensity distribution: about 75–80% of weekly time at easy aerobic effort, 15–20% at quality (threshold, intervals, tempo), and 0–5% at race-pace. This distribution is the strongest predictor of long-term endurance improvement in the published literature.

Quality sessions placed on Tuesday and Thursday with full recovery between. Long session on Saturday (running/cycling) or Sunday brick (triathlon). Rest day on Monday or Friday depending on your selected days-per-week.

Each session includes a 'why today' explanation — the same one-line rationale the SportPlan engine uses when it adapts the plan.

What's not in this preview

The real product reads your Garmin and Strava data and adjusts every session — when you sleep badly, the next quality session moves; when your HRV drops, intensity lowers; when you skip a day, the week reorganises.

Race-week tapering, injury-return ramps, and field-test recalibration all happen automatically. This preview shows the template, not the engine.

You won't see your personal training zones here because they're calibrated from your Garmin data on day 1 of your real plan.

Get the adaptive version of your plan

Connect Garmin or Strava, complete a 60-second onboarding, and your real week 1 is generated with your actual zones and adaptation rules. You get the full plan, race planning included. See your first week before you pay. €9.99/month, cancel anytime.

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Methodology

Methodology designed by Ramon Curto, MSc Exercise Physiology

Ramon Curto designed SportPlan's endurance-training methodology from exercise-physiology principles. SportPlan applies it autonomously to the information you enter and the data you choose to connect; it is not ongoing one-to-one coaching or medical care.

Last revised July 2026

  • MSc Exercise Physiology
  • Endurance-training methodology
  • Connected training-data analysis
  • Block periodization · Polarized training