How to Integrate Claude With TrainingPeaks (Without Manual Entry)

Claude is unusually good at endurance training plans. Give it your FTP, your goal race, and your weekly schedule and it will return a periodized block with real interval prescriptions, sensible recovery, and a taper. The problem is the last mile: that beautiful plan lives inside a chat window, and TrainingPeaks has no "paste a plan here" button. You're left re-typing 60–90 workouts by hand.

This guide shows how to integrate Claude with TrainingPeaks the practical way — generate the plan in Claude, convert it to a CSV that TrainingDojo understands, and import the whole block to your TrainingPeaks calendar in a couple of minutes. No API keys to wrangle, no coaching license required.

Why Claude Specifically?

Any capable AI can draft a training plan, but a few of Claude's traits make it especially strong for this job:

• Long context. You can paste an entire season of workout summaries — or your last 12 weeks of TrainingPeaks history — into a single message and Claude will reason over all of it at once instead of forgetting the top of the conversation.
• Projects. Keep your athlete profile, FTP, threshold pace, and constraints in a Claude Project so every new plan request starts with the same context instead of re-explaining yourself.
• Artifacts. Ask Claude to render the plan as a table or a CSV artifact and you get a tidy, copyable block you can edit in place before exporting.
• Careful constraint-following. "Only 4 days a week, no running on back-to-back days, long ride on Saturdays" — Claude tends to respect hard constraints rather than quietly violating them three weeks in.

Step 1: Brief Claude Like a Coach

The plan is only as good as the brief. Vague prompts get vague plans. Give Claude the same details you'd hand a human coach:

Prompt:

"Act as my cycling coach. Build a 10-week plan targeting a
hilly gran fondo on September 6th.

About me:
- FTP 268W, 74kg
- 5 sessions/week, ~8-9 hours, one long ride Saturdays
- Strong aerobically, weak at repeated 3-5 min climbs
- Indoor trainer on weekdays, outdoor on weekends

Periodize it (base -> build -> peak -> taper). Every workout
needs a specific structure with power targets as % of FTP
and absolute watts. Add a recovery week every 4th week."

Review what comes back. Because Claude holds the whole conversation in context, you can refine conversationally — "make week 6 harder," "swap Thursday's VO2 work for over-unders," "I'm traveling week 8, make it a deload" — and it keeps the rest of the plan coherent.

Step 2: Ask for TrainingDojo's CSV Format

Once you're happy with the plan, the key move is converting it to the exact columns TrainingDojo's importer reads. Paste this follow-up:

Prompt:

"Output the entire plan as CSV with exactly these columns:
day,sport,subtype,title,duration_minutes,tss,description,phase

- day is a sequential integer starting at 1
- put full interval structure and watt targets in description
- estimate tss per workout
- use Rest rows for rest days
Return only the CSV in a code block, no commentary."

Claude will produce something like:

day,sport,subtype,title,duration_minutes,tss,description,phase
1,Cycling,Endurance,Aerobic Base,90,62,Steady Z2 at 60-70% FTP (161-188W). Smooth high cadence.,Base
2,Cycling,Intervals,Climbing Repeats,75,88,WU 15min. 5x4min at 105-115% FTP (281-308W) 4min easy between. CD 10min.,Base
3,Rest,,Rest Day,0,0,Full rest or 20min mobility.,Base
4,Cycling,Tempo,Sweet Spot,80,82,WU 12min. 3x12min at 88-93% FTP (236-249W) 5min easy. CD 8min.,Base
5,Cycling,Endurance,Long Ride,180,135,Z2 endurance with 4x8min tempo in the back half.,Base

Step 3: Import to TrainingPeaks via TrainingDojo

1. Copy Claude's CSV (or save it as a .csv file).
2. Go to trainingdojo.app/import and select TrainingPeaks as the destination.
3. Connect TrainingPeaks. The fastest way is the one-click TrainingDojo Connector extension; you can also paste a bearer token — see the bearer token & athlete ID guide.
4. Paste or upload the CSV. TrainingDojo parses it and previews every workout with calculated dates.
5. Pick the start date for Day 1, review the preview, and import. A full block lands on your TrainingPeaks calendar in about two minutes.

Dates are calculated in your local timezone, so Day 1 falls exactly where you put it — no off-by-one surprises.

A Claude Trick: Critique an Existing Plan

Integration isn't only about building from scratch. One of the best uses of Claude's long context is auditing a plan you already have. Export a few weeks of your TrainingPeaks history (or paste your current block), then ask:

Prompt:

"Here are my last 6 weeks of training. My ramp rate feels
too aggressive and my Friday quality sessions keep going
poorly. Diagnose the issues and rewrite the next 4 weeks,
then give me the result as CSV in the format above."

Claude can spot a too-steep CTL ramp, back-to-back hard days, or a missing recovery week, then hand you a corrected block ready to re-import. That round-trip — history out, smarter plan back in — is the real payoff of treating Claude as a coaching collaborator.

Want Structured Workouts, Not Just Calendar Entries?

A CSV import puts dated workouts with descriptions on your calendar. If you also want device-ready structured intervals — the kind your head unit counts down step by step — TrainingDojo can convert the same plan into structured workouts for TrainingPeaks, and bulk-convert an entire CSV plan at once. Bike and run workouts with power or pace targets can also export to Zwift .zwo files.

The Easier Alternative: Coach Dojo

The Claude workflow above is great when you want to drive the conversation yourself. But if you'd rather skip the copy-paste entirely, TrainingDojo's built-in Coach Dojo does the whole loop in one place.

• It reads your last ~90 days of TrainingPeaks history directly, so you don't paste anything.
• It asks a few subjective questions about your goal, fatigue, and schedule.
• It generates a plan already formatted for import — one click to your TrainingPeaks calendar.

Same training science, zero reformatting. Read more about how Coach Dojo personalizes plans from your real data, or compare your options in our AI training plan generator comparison.

The Bottom Line

Claude produces coach-quality cycling and running plans; TrainingDojo is the bridge that gets them onto TrainingPeaks without manual entry. Generate with Claude, export as CSV, import in two minutes — or let Coach Dojo run the whole thing for you. Either way, you never type 80 workouts by hand again.

Working in a different calendar? The same approach works to integrate Claude with Intervals.icu, and you can use Claude with your Strava history as a planning source too.