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Guide to Creating Your Training Plan

Adam Hodges | November 28, 2022

Title, "Guide to Creating Your Training Plan," against a backdrop of a runner summiting a mountain

Learn how to create a training plan and schedule key workouts to reach your goals!

To excel in your athletic goals, you need to train with a purpose. Training with a purpose means knowing why you are doing a particular workout and how that workout fits into your overall progression toward your goals. But to train with a purpose, you need a plan.

This course shows trail runners and endurance athletes how to train with a purpose, teaching you what types of workouts to target — and when — to set yourself up for success. Whether you are a runner, triathlete, cross-country skier, mountain endurance athlete, or coach, learn how to set up a long-range plan and implement it with weekly workouts that target the desired training effects.

If you are currently using — or considering using — an Alp Fitness training plan and are curious about the philosophy behind the plan or would like to customize the plan, this course provides you with additional details so you can expertly adapt and tailor your plan.

If you are an endurance athlete interested in designing your own custom training plan, this course provides you with the templates and tools you need to coach yourself.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Define your goals and prioritize your target events
  • Explain the concept of periodization and apply it to your training plan
  • Identify key training phases that help you develop as an endurance athlete
  • Select the appropriate progression across training phases for your goals
  • Create your own customized training plan using the Alp Fitness training plan template
  • Schedule your weekly training using workouts to target desired training effects

The course consists of a series of short readings with optional quizzes to check your knowledge along the way. No prior background is needed, although it is recommended that you first take the “Guide to Using Training Zones” course since this course builds on those ideas.

Course length is about an hour. You can move through the content at your own pace, returning to topics for further study or skipping around based on your interests. When logged in, your progress will be kept so you can pick up where you left off after returning from a break.

Course Content

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Defining Your Goals
Begin with the End in Mind 1 Topic | 1 Quiz
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Tips for Goal Setting
Knowledge Check: Prioritize Your Pursuits
Developing Your Training Plan
Periodized Training 1 Quiz
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Knowledge Check: Periodization
Overview of Training Phases 6 Topics | 1 Quiz
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Aerobic Base Conditioning
Endurance Training
Lactate Threshold Training
VO2max Training
Peak & Taper
Transition
Knowledge Check: Training Phases
Training Phase Progressions 1 Quiz
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Knowledge Check: Training Phase Progressions
Create Your Training Plan 1 Quiz
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Knowledge Check: Create Your Training Plan
Schedule Your Training Weeks 5 Topics | 1 Quiz
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Aerobic Base Conditioning Sample Week
VO2max Training Sample Week
Lactate Threshold Training Sample Week
Endurance Training Sample Week
Peak & Taper Sample Week
Knowledge Check: Schedule Your Training Weeks
Next Steps
Monitor Your Training & Recovery
Train Smart

Filed Under: Training Tips Tagged With: Bike, Run, Skimo, Swim, XC Ski

About Adam Hodges

Adam Hodges is a mountain endurance athlete and coach with credentials from the United Endurance Sports Coaching Academy (UESCA), USA Triathlon (USAT), and the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). In addition to coaching multisport athletes, he has coached high school cross country and track runners in California and masters swimmers in Colorado and California. As a USAT All-American triathlete, he has competed in the ITU World Triathlon Championships, the ITU World Duathlon Championships, and the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii. As a masters runner, he has won a series title in the XTERRA SoCal Trail Series. His current pursuits include trail running, climbing, mountaineering, skimo, and cross-country skiing. Check out his training plans and courses to help you prepare for you next adventure.

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