Get Your Coach’s Plan Onto Your Garmin Without TrainingPeaks Premium

Plenty of athletes get their plan from a coach as a spreadsheet, a PDF, or a block of text in an email, not through a shared TrainingPeaks calendar. That's a perfectly good way to coach. The awkward part is the athlete's side: turning that plan into workouts on a Garmin watch usually means a paid calendar tool or an evening of manual entry. TrainingDojo sends the plan straight to Garmin Connect instead.

For athletes: from your coach's file to your watch

1. Connect Garmin Connect in TrainingDojo Settings → Integrations.
2. If your coach sent a spreadsheet, export it as CSV and open Import a plan. Pick the start date and check the preview.
3. If the plan is text or a PDF, paste a session into the structured workout builder to turn it into intervals, or ask your connected AI to turn the plan into a CSV.
4. Send to Garmin Connect. The workouts land on their dates and sync to your watch.

You don't need a TrainingPeaks subscription for any of this. Plain plan imports work on Free; sending structured workouts with intervals and targets is part of Pro.

For coaches: keep writing plans your way

If your athletes are on Garmin and you deliver plans as sheets, you can keep doing that. Send them the CSV and a link to this guide. Each athlete imports to their own Garmin Connect account, so nothing changes in how you write or share the plan.

Coaches who do work in TrainingPeaks can keep publishing there; Garmin's own sync takes it the rest of the way. TrainingDojo's coach tools help with roster review and publishing to athlete calendars.

When the plan changes

Coaches adjust plans. If a week changes, delete the old workouts from My Plans (they leave Garmin Connect too) and import the updated rows.

More detail on preparing the file is in CSV training plan to Garmin, and the device side is on the Garmin Connect page.