New to Athletica - Questions

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I discovered Athelica a few weeks back & plan to try the platform out after I’ve recovered from my 10K run race next weekend.
Before I start I have some questions on what training plans you support & how strength training works.
Over the past 6 years, I’ve slowly built up volume having had a desk job for the past 20+ years, starting with cycling & now running. Since 2020 I’ve taken part in multiple 10k’s & half-marathons. In April this year I ran 2 marathons in 1 month (the first was a training run for the second), with my time in the London marathon just over 4 hours.
Since then my training load has reduced & a typical week looks like this:
-Monday 5k intervals track session

  • Tuesday strength
  • Wednesday 6k easy run (after a long day working away, including a short cycling commute & train)
  • Thursday 6k easy run or row
  • Friday strength 6k easy run
  • Weekend long run (trail when possible), or virtual ride at home
    this is on top of work & family life

Outside of the coached intervals track session, all training has been via Garmin plans, with strength coming from a variety of apps I’ve tried over the years.

I’d like to get more structure into my training which I believe Athelica can support, but as my goals through the year change how do training plans adapt?
I’d also like to know if Athletica can support:

  • a primary sport (in my case running) supplemented by cycling or rowing as cross-training
  • strength training equipment selection (ie what if I only have kettlebells rather than any other equipment)
    Thanks!
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Hey @sandeater and welcome to Athletica!
congrats on your accomplishments! That’s so awesome to read.

Basically you link your Garmin and define your goals in the settings when you sign up - you’ll be prompted to onboarding section where you will insert your races, time available for training and voila, you’re on your way. Give the system 24 hrs to calculate your plan fully, but you’ll see a training plan come through in about 10 mins.

All running plans will have cycling in the weekly training plan. To get a few rowing workouts, you could generate a fictional rowing plan (insert a rowing race) then save some of the rowing workouts into your library and go back to your settings to generate a running plan again. Then you just insert those rowing workouts from your library when you want to row.

All running plans have strength training workouts *except low volume. They are mainly body weight, plyo but you can definitely utilize your kettlebells as needed to add more load. I am also Certified Personal Trainer and you could ask me to design your strength training workouts :smiley:

Let us know how you get on

Best, MJ

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