From Coach Notes to Structured Workouts, Without Rebuilding Each One

Plenty of coaches do not want AI to write their workouts. They know exactly what the athlete needs, and they can describe it in a sentence. The slow part is everything after that: building each step, setting each target, and doing it again for the next athlete.

TrainingDojo handles that part. You write the workout in your own words. It turns them into an editable structured workout, and you decide when the athlete sees it. You do not need to connect Claude or ChatGPT for any of this.

One Workout at a Time

1. Open the structured workout builder.
2. Connect your TrainingPeaks coach account if you have not already.
3. Paste your workout the way you would write it.
4. Review the blocks, targets, and estimated training load, and edit anything you like.
5. Choose the athlete.
6. Leave the hide option on while you review, or turn it off to publish straight to the athlete.

Here is the kind of note it works from.

75-minute bike session. 15 minutes easy, then 4 x 10 minutes Z3
Controlled Threshold with 3 minutes Z2 recovery between each, then
finish easy. Use the athlete's current power zones.

Keep your own wording in the workout description, so the athlete still hears you. The structure gives them the steps and targets on their device.

A Whole Block at Once

If you already plan in a spreadsheet, keep doing that. Export it as a CSV and open the bulk builder. Each row becomes a structured workout from the description you wrote.

1. Upload the CSV and choose a start date.
2. Generate the structured workouts.
3. Review the rows, and regenerate or edit any that need it.
4. Choose the athlete and whether the block stays hidden.
5. Publish. Successful rows are kept, and you can retry only the ones that fail.

Keeping Workouts Hidden Until You Are Ready

With a TrainingPeaks coach account, the builders can publish workouts hidden from the athlete. They sit on the calendar where you can see them, and the athlete cannot. Turn off the hide option when you are ready, or reveal workouts later.

This helps most with a new block. You can build it, read it in context on the calendar, and release it when it is right.

Reusing the Sessions That Already Worked

Your best sessions are already in your athletes’ history. Workout Vault mines past workouts and rebuilds them as structured templates, so you are not starting from a blank page. See how to build a coach workout library.

What About Credits?

Generating a structured workout in the builders uses one structured workout credit. Coach plans include 500 or 1,000 credits every month, depending on roster size, and Pro includes 100. If you connect your own AI assistant through TrainingDojo MCP, it builds the workout in your AI account and uses no TrainingDojo credits.

If You Want a Little AI Help Later

When you are comfortable, your connected AI assistant can do the same job from a conversation, using the structured workout tools.

Turn this into a structured workout for Maya on Tuesday and publish
it with hidden_from_athlete: true. Validate it first and show me the
steps before you publish.

75-minute bike session. 15 minutes easy, then 4 x 10 minutes Z3
Controlled Threshold with 3 minutes Z2 recovery between each, then
finish easy.

That uses validate_structured_workout to check the steps and push_structured_workout to publish. Your AI app controls when it asks you first, so review its permission settings.

See how the rest fits together on TrainingDojo for coaches.