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Learn how to get the most out of MyCyclingTrainer

Dashboard

Your operations center where you can see at a glance your scheduled workouts, completed activities, performance metrics and daily nutrition plan.

At the top of the dashboard you'll find four cards with key information about your training status:

  • Weekly TSS: Shows the accumulated training load during the current week. Includes a progress bar indicating the percentage towards your weekly goal. The color changes to green when you reach 100%, yellow if you exceed the target and orange if you exceed it excessively.
  • Week Progress: Indicates the percentage of workouts completed versus the total scheduled for the week. Helps you see if you're following your plan correctly.
  • Fitness (CTL): Your long-term fitness level. A higher value indicates better performance capacity. Typical values range from 20 (beginner) to 100+ (highly trained cyclist).
  • Fatigue (ATL): Your accumulated fatigue level. Also shows your current form status (TSB) which is the difference between fitness and fatigue.

Training Plans

Create personalized AI-generated plans adapted to your level, goal and time availability.

The creation assistant guides you through 5 steps:

  1. Goal: Select your training objective.
    • Boost FTP: High-intensity intervals to improve threshold power.
    • Build Endurance: Zone 2 volume with progressively longer rides.
    • Race Preparation: Full periodization leading up to your event date.
    • Complete Distance: Gradual progression for distances from 50km to 200km.
    • Link Event: Select a race from your calendar to create a specific plan until that date.
  2. Equipment: Indicate your available gear.
    • Power Meter: Enables power-based structure (%FTP).
    • Heart Rate Monitor: For HR-based training zones.
  3. Structure: Define weekly volume and starting phase.

    Weekly Hours: Select your availability (3-6h, 6-10h, 10-15h or 15-20h).

    Starting Phase (Training Context):

    The AI automatically detects your recent training history to recommend the start of your plan:

    • Start Fresh: For athletes returning from extended rest. Includes FTP test in the first week.
    • 2 weeks + recovery: Continue current mesocycle with 2 load weeks before first recovery.
    • 1 week + recovery: Complete current load block with 1 week before first recovery.
    • Recovery only: Start with immediate recovery week if you're arriving fatigued.

    FTP test is automatically scheduled on the first load week after the first recovery.

  4. Schedule: Configure your training calendar.
    • Training Days: Select which days you can train (strictly respected).
    • Dates: Define start/end dates, or link to an event.
    • Long Ride Day: Indicate your preferred day for the longest workout.
  5. Review: Confirm and generate your plan.
    • Review the summary with goal, duration, days, and weekly hours.
    • AI generates personalized workouts respecting your rest days.

Training Metrics

These metrics are based on Andrew Coggan's model and are used to quantify training load, accumulated fatigue and your form status. Understanding them will allow you to train smarter.

Chronic Training Load represents your long-term fitness level. It's an exponentially weighted average of your daily TSS over the last 42 days, giving more weight to recent days. Note: For optimal accuracy, it is recommended to sync at least 180 days of history.

CTL = Exponentially weighted average of TSS (time constant: 42 days)

A higher CTL indicates greater work capacity. Typical values: 20-40 (recreational), 40-70 (competitive amateur), 70-100 (advanced amateur), 100+ (professional). Increasing CTL too quickly (>5-7 points/week) increases overtraining risk.

Nutrition

The nutrition section provides personalized recommendations based on your profile, activity level and each day's training load.

The daily calorie calculation takes into account multiple factors:

  • Basal metabolism (BMR): Calculated using the Mifflin-St Jeor formula based on your weight, height, age and sex.
  • Activity level: A factor is applied based on your lifestyle (sedentary, active or very active).
  • Training load: Extra calories needed are added based on the day's training TSS.

Activities

Manage and import your cycling activities from Intervals.icu. View detailed metrics and track your ride history.

Import your completed activities from Intervals.icu:

  • Click 'Sync from Intervals' and select the period (7, 14, 30, 60, 90, 180 or 365 days).
  • Review the activities found and select the ones you want to import.
  • Imported activities will appear in your list with all their data: distance, time, power, TSS, elevation.

Important: Strava Activities

Due to Strava restrictions, activities that originate from Strava cannot be synchronized to third-party apps via API. To see these activities, please configure Intervals.icu to sync from another source (like Garmin or Wahoo) or upload the activity files manually.

Performance Analytics

The analytics section provides you with graphs and advanced metrics to understand your progress, identify trends and optimize your training.

This tab shows an overview of your current form status with metric cards and performance analysis:

  • CTL/ATL/TSB/FTP Cards: Show your current values with visual trend indicators.
  • Peak Form Banner: When your TSB is between +5 and +25 and your CTL is above 50, a golden banner appears indicating you're in optimal form to compete.
  • Fatigue Risk Analysis: Detects signs of overtraining: very low TSB, consecutive days without rest, or load increase too fast.
  • Period Summary: Shows total statistics for the selected period: activities, time, distance, TSS and average power.
  • Weekly Comparison: Compares your current week's metrics with the previous week showing the percentage change.

Equipment

Keep a detailed record of your bikes and components, track accumulated usage and receive maintenance reminders.

Manage your bike fleet with complete information for each one:

  • Available types: Road Bike, Mountain Bike, Gravel. Each type has a distinctive icon.
  • Mileage is automatically updated when you import activities from Intervals.icu. Manual adjustments support up to 2 decimal places.
  • In your Profile, you can assign a default bike to each activity type for automatic tracking.

User Profile

Configure your personal profile with physical information, preferences and default bikes for each activity type.

Personal data is essential for correctly calculating your metrics and recommendations:

  • Name: Your username to personalize the experience.
  • Birth Date: Used to calculate your age and adjust percentiles on metrics like VO2max.
  • Activity Level: Defines your lifestyle outside of training: Sedentary, Active or Very Active. Affects daily calorie calculation.
  • Weight: In kilograms. Fundamental for calculating watts/kg and nutritional recommendations.
  • Height: In centimeters. Used in combination with weight for basal metabolism calculation.
  • FTP: Your Functional Threshold Power in watts. The basis for training zones and TSS calculation.

Notification System

Stay informed of important events with real-time in-app notifications.

The app automatically notifies you about the following events:

  • Plan Generated: When your training plan has been successfully generated by AI.
  • Activities Imported: When new activities are imported from Intervals.icu.
  • Maintenance Due: When a bike component exceeds its maintenance interval or lifespan.
  • Intervals.icu Connection: Confirmation when your Intervals.icu account connects successfully.
  • Peak Form: When your TSB indicates you're in optimal form to compete (TSB +5 to +25 with CTL > 50).
  • Critical Fatigue: When your TSB indicates critical fatigue (TSB < -25), suggesting a deload week.
  • Event Adaptation: When the AI finishes adapting your training and nutrition plan for a specific event.
  • Feedback Status: Receive updates when your suggestions are reviewed, accepted, or completed.
  • New Versions: Notification when a new update with improvements is released.

Events & Races

Plan your season, track races and goals, and let AI adapt your training and nutrition for peak performance.

Add your races, gran fondos, or tours to the calendar from the Events section:

  1. Click 'New Event' and enter the name and date.
  2. Select Event Type and Priority. Priority determines the taper duration.
  3. Link a training plan to auto-adapt your workouts with AI.
  4. Optionally enter distance and elevation manually if no route file is available.
  5. Upload a GPX file directly in the form to auto-fill metrics and generate predictions.

Changelog

Stay informed about platform updates, new features, and bug fixes.

Each update comes with a version number. Click to expand and see full details.

  • Change Details: Detailed explanation of new features, UI improvements, and bug fixes.