The Training Peaks professional edition is $49/month for unlimited basic athletes. Any other options? Right now with only a few coaching clients, who aren’t paying me that much, it wouldn’t make sense to pay $49 a month just for this. I’ve been doing a word doc. type calendar I email them, but I like the option for athletes to log in and input notes, feedback, etc. about their training. I like the way Training Peaks is set up. Any cheaper good alternatives? Thanks
I’m not a coach, but my coach looks at my Garmin Connect page. Price is right-FREE!
ask TP to convert your account to a pay by the athlete account. All Athletes must be premium clients (9.99), but if you only have a few the cost is lower. Once you hit 5 ($49.95 worth of premium costs) athletes you have to decide if you are utilizing the functions of the premium client featrure. If you are you can continue to pay the $9.99 or make your premium clients pay $19.99 out of pocket. I would pay the cost as a pass through rather than tell a client to go and pay their own fee. So if you had two athletes who were premium and wanted the remaining 8 to be standard clients you would be billed $49 for the 8 folks ands an additional $19.98 for the two premiums. Does that make sense?
Dave
I’ve used www.addaero.com. It is basic, has some of the same capabilities at Trainingpeaks as far as drag and drop workouts, emailing 2 days of workouts to athletes, emailing you their updates, basic tracking of time/distance. You can attach files, but it does not have the analysis tools that trainingpeaks has. It has a pretty reasonable start up fee and was $4/month per athlete.
If you only have a few clients, and want something basic, I would recommend it.
A someone else mentioned, you need to go to the pay per athlete version. If you are certified with usat or usacycling or possibly other federations you get a discount off of the normal rate.
If all you were using trainingpeaks for is to distribute workouts, then workoutlog.com might fit your needs. It is less expensive but the analysis functions aren’t as good as trainingpeaks.
Addaero and workoutlog allow html in workout descriptions, handy if you are having them do new workouts and you can just put a link in the workout description.
I’ve used www.addaero.com. It is basic, has some of the same capabilities at Trainingpeaks as far as drag and drop workouts, emailing 2 days of workouts to athletes, emailing you their updates, basic tracking of time/distance. You can attach files, but it does not have the analysis tools that trainingpeaks has. It has a pretty reasonable start up fee and was $4/month per athlete.
If you only have a few clients, and want something basic, I would recommend it.
Thanks for all your feedback!
Why have you and your clients pay another coach to interact?
I type out schedules in Notepad. My clients that have powermeters send me files. One of my clients came up with a nifty spreadsheet as well that’s quite easy to use.
I’ve been coached or coaching since 2002, never logged into TrainingPeaks. I do make extensive use of WKO+.
try workoutlog.com. Nothing fancy, but it does what it needs to do and is fairly easy/intuitive
if you are just typing it out in a word doc, how do you have it set up for long term planning?
I maintain a 1 - 2 year Excel spreadsheet for each client and then cut and paste the week column into an email each week for the client along with notes.
Then they maintain their training in beginnertri.com. Plenty of room to input everything I like to see there and its free, no cost to pass onto the client.
THen all of my clients that use power I have them send every file and I use WKO+ and have the coaches edition so I can input unlimited clients. I also like to have clients that are using a Garmin send me their run files and I also input those into WKO+.
I coach using TrainingPeaks and find it pretty cumbersome so have tried Addero Coach and Workout Log. Are there any other options two years later on from this thread?
I’m not a coach but have been coached. One coach used TP. I didn’t really care for it. My last coach used a spreadsheet on Google Docs. I thought it worked well and it’s free.
Combine excel with dropbox and you have a very cheap alternative to training peaks. Years ago Gordo posted his spreadsheets online (probably on the EC website). It had several sheets the linked together to display ATP, weekly volume, workouts, testing results. It was pretty impressive. Or you can create your own
It would be cumbersome but you could use dropbox to host all the files. Have a folder for each athlete. And then have a subfolder for each week. At the end of the week, your athlete can upload all their files to the proper box and then you review them in wko, or whatever software you prefer (garmin connect or poweragent are free).
Personally, this would be an administrative nightmare. I would rather pay $50 a month than deal with setting up and going through this process. YMMV.
My coach and I used basic spreadsheets until last fall when we went to TRaining Peaks. I hate TP so we’re going back to spreadsheets, email and phone calls.
here’s a link to gordo’s spreadsheet (.xls): http://goo.gl/1X2k1
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Google is a great resource. Google documents specifically. Sharing it works well.
We stumbled upon this post for TrainingPeaks alternatives and even though it is a few years old thought we would post a response. I work for Addaero and wanted to let you know that in 2012 we developed a new Coach/Athlete web based training platform Called Addaero Solo. Here is a list of a few Addaero Solo features -
Activity Feed that allows you to communicate with your athlete and access their data quickly and efficientlyPrice: Solo pricing is significantly less than TrainingPeaks - scroll to the bottom of this link for a price comparison http://addaero.com/soloGroup management: The coach can create, deploy and manage a group training calendar for 1 - 5000 users. This works well in corporate health and wellness, challenges, youth coaching, races, training plans for clubs…Workout Builder and Results Entry: Solo provides templates to build workouts based exercise modality. This allows the athlete to post results for each exercise and not the entire workout which provides better insight on athlete results. Video: https://addaero.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201937726-Video-How-to-Workout-Builder-CatalogTools: Build a training plan one time and deploy it to individuals and groups. This is very effective for coaches that build a lot of plans based on plan type, distance, duration…Intuitive Interface: Interface is intuitive and easy to useWork & listen to our coaches: 75% of the features and functionality in Addaero Solo are a result of feedback and suggestions from our coaches. We work with and listen to our coaches. Zones: Build workouts using power, heart rate, and pace zonesMulti-Sport: Use Addaero Solo for Run, Bike, Swim, Strength, Skiing, Climbing…Health Tracking****Connect: Garmin, Withings, Fitbit
Coach Getting Started Video: https://addaero.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200880939-Video-Getting-Started-Addaero-Solo-Coach
- Addaero Team
You can try workoutlog.com. It is very reasonable especially if you do not really use all of the features Training Peaks has to offer. I have used this for several years with clients and found it to be entirely satisfactory.
Regards,
Jim
How about SportTracks? There is/seems to be a coach function (I’ve seen it but don’t use, so can’t really comment)…
How about SportTracks? There is/seems to be a coach function (I’ve seen it but don’t use, so can’t really comment)…
Yeah, I’d suggest looking at sporttracks.mobi only 30$/YEAR the coach can add workouts to your calendar, look at past workouts and message
Since people seem to be posting here again, I’ll respond. Given the price increases from trainingpeaks, I took the opportunity to check out what the other services offer. Here are my most recent experiences.
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Sporttracks.mobi. Pretty good planning, library function didn’t seem all that sharp and almost no backend analysis. I think if they tied more closely with the sporttracks desktop app, made it obvious that they were tied together it might be a possibility. No mean max power, no mean max heart rate, no mean max pace. No way to get data out of it to do your own analysis in a spreadsheet. No side by side to copy schedules from a plan into an athlete or from previous weeks into this week.
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Selfloops. The planning is OK, the workout library isn’t quite there. They do have mean max power implemented, can log morning hrv from their hrv app which has a lot of potential. It has a performance manager chart but the time constants are not adjustable.
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Sportlyzer. The best long term planning engine I have seen, with a nice setup for laying out weekly volumes. They do have a workout library. The analysis is lacking, no mean max power or paces. I think this is the only platform I tried that will grab data from movescount.
It’s been a few years, but I have also tried workoutlog. The easiest day to day interface, if you just wanted a week open and want to start typing, it is the quickest one.
2peak.com more than just a platform it actually does a calculated plan that the coach can then modify. If you as a coach generally agree with the recommendations the software makes, then it will be easy for you. Last I looked it was much expensive than the other platforms, $49 us per month; probably due to the added planning functionality. It didn’t work for me because I had to go in and modify so many of the recommended workouts. The workflow wasn’t particularly fast when doing that, could have been because the servers are overseas. The analysis functions as I recall had everything that trainingpeaks had.
In general, if you don’t use the analysis functions heavily, then there are many options that will fill your needs. If you concentrate on the planning side and don’t delve into the specifics of the numbers too heavily, lots of things you can do. If you look at numbers very closely then depending on how you go about it you’ll lose some functionality.
I have used raceday, desktop software, my experience there is somewhat dated. It has the workout library, viewing the workout graphs isn’t as smooth as the trainingpeaks methods, but it’s there, you can get it done. They also have a workout library, once again it isn’t as smooth as some other applications but it’s there and can get the job done. The library is in the form of files you save on your hard drive. So you setup a few folders with your various types of workouts.
It doesn’t exactly have mean max power charts last time I looked but on the other hand it will easily search for the top 1, or 2 or 5 highest powers or paces for a given time. I can’t recall if you can get the top heart rates for a given time.
Raceday takes the performance manager to another level, actually fitting your constants to criterion workouts, the possible solutions are too constrained for my taste, but no other program gives you any possibility of doing anything similar, unless you’re some sort of mathematical fanatic (I am) it is fine.
Apparently other folks use wko and dropbox, haven’t tried that one myself.