Customize Your Training with Updated Athletica Settings

[Marjaana]

Athletica has introduced several enhancements to the settings menus, making it easier for you to personalize your training experience. This guide will walk you through the updated settings options and how to configure them to best suit your training needs.

Profile Settings

Basics

Navigate to Settings > Profile > Basics to update your personal details, including:

• Name and Email: Ensure your contact details are up to date.
• Password: Update your password for security.
• Profile Picture: Upload an image (max 1 MB, .jpg or .png).
• Coach’s Email: If applicable, this section will display your coach’s email or you can add your coach by entering their email.
• Date of Birth and Gender: Set for personalized training recommendations.
• Timezone: Select your timezone for accurate workout scheduling.
• Units & Measurements: Choose between Metric (km) or Imperial (mi) for distance and meters or yards for pool length.
• Automatic Threshold Updates: Choose between Auto-adjust, Ask me, or Don’t update.
• Notifications: Opt in or out of release notes notifications.

Plan Settings

Located at Settings > Profile > Plan Settings, these options help tailor your training plan:

• Show Training Plan Warnings: Enable or disable alerts for training inconsistencies and warnings over/under training.
• Show Daily Performance Potential: Displays predicted performance trends on the Training Plan page (this is also visible separately under the Performance Potential Chart.
• Workout Wizard Advance Planning: Receive up to two weeks of workout alternatives instead of the default 2-days (may cause slower updates).
• Limit Plan Update Frequency: opt-in to only making modifications once per day or as-needed by default
• Lock Current Day’s Sessions: Prevents AI modifications to today’s training session.
• Calendar Sync: Copy the provided URL to sync your training plan with your external calendar app - it will only be visible as a full-day event because Athletica does not schedule specific workout times.

AI Coach Settings

Under Settings > Profile > AI Coach Settings, you can:

• Enable AI Coach Feedback: Choose to receive or not receive AI-generated session feedback.
• Select Your AI Coach Avatar: Choose between two available AI coach profiles.

Training Settings

About You

Found under Settings > Training > About You, this section lets you:

• Select Your Sport: Choose from triathlon, running, cycling, rowing and duathlon.
• Set Your Experience Level: Adjust the slider from beginner to competitive.
• Training Hours: Let Athletica decide based on your experience level or manually input your weekly available training hours.

Advanced

Athletica automatically sets baseline settings and adjust using test week and ongoing data. These advanced settings should only be changed if you specifically know your own data or if your coach recommends it.

• Fitness & Fatigue Values: Enter your own values or let Athletica calculate.
• Ramp Rate Adjustment: Modify how quickly training load increases.
• Training Modality Distribution: Customize the proportion of running, biking, swimming, rowing, and strength training in your plan.

Connections

Located at Settings > Connections > Configure, this section manages integrations:

• Connected Apps: View linked accounts (e.g., Garmin, Strava, Concept2) and connect new accounts
• Permissions: Check data access levels.
• Auto-Sync Settings: Choose to automatically sync swim, bike, or run workouts to your device
• Workout Prescription Mode: Select whether workouts are prescribed by pace, heart rate, power, or let Athletica’s AI decide.
• Disconnect Accounts: Remove an integration if necessary.

Questions? Comment below

[kimberg]

Awesome updates, thanks much! I won’t be touching my plan until after 5/10 but then will take advantage of this to make a few key adjustments. Thank you, looking great.

[mgiven]

It’s getting closer, but still some things I’d like to see added because I still have to edit every week myself. The AI almost always gives me a hill or hard intervals workout on a weekend day, which I always move to a weekday and then add my own long aerobic workout on the weekend manually.

• The ability to choose which day I want to do my long aerobic workout (AND long aerobic workout only!) Yes, I can adjust the sliders to say fill in a long amount of time on that day, but I want the ability to also say DON’T schedule a speed workout or hill workout here!

• The ability to pick which day of the week I DO want a hard/non-aerobic workout (intervals or hills for example).

• The ability to say which days I would accept multiple workouts in the same discipline (doubles) or click that I don’t want double workouts assigned.

• The ability to have a WU/CD for an activity OR NOT.

[Robert]

For me, the biggest improvement in planning would be to include weekday races. Through the season we have a series of Wednesday evening time trials, usually 10 miles. I add these as if they were workouts, but have to shift workouts around to accommodate them.