Training Phases
Training phases are colour-coded blocks that span multiple days on your planner. Use them to show training periods such as strength blocks, endurance phases, deload weeks, or competition prep. Phases are visual overlays for organising your plan: they don’t affect workouts or scheduling.
Adding a Phase
Open day actions
Click any day in your planner to open the day actions menu.
Select Phase
Click Phase in the extra actions section.
Configure the phase
- Label — Name your phase (e.g., “Strength Block”, “Deload Week”)
- Start date — When the phase begins
- End date — When the phase ends
- Colour — A colour to distinguish this phase from others
Save
Click Save to add the phase to your planner.
Editing a Phase
Hover over a phase block on your planner to highlight it and see its label. Click it to open the edit modal, where you can change the label, adjust the start or end date, pick a different colour, or delete the phase.
How Phases Behave
Phases are date-anchored and managed separately from other planner content:
| Action | Phase Behaviour |
|---|---|
| Insert week | Phases stay in place (workouts shift, phases don’t) |
| Delete week | Phases stay in place (workouts shift, phases don’t) |
| Clear planner range | Phases are preserved |
| Apply template with overwrite | Existing phases are preserved, template phases are added |
| Drag workouts | Phases are unaffected |
Because phases don’t move when you insert or delete weeks, you may need to adjust phase dates yourself after making structural changes to your planner.
Phases in Templates
Coaches can add phases to templates to create reusable training block structures.
Open template day actions
In a template, click any day to open the day actions menu.
Add a phase
Click Phase to open the phase creation modal.
Set week range
Template phases use week numbers instead of dates:
- Start week — The week number where the phase begins
- End week — The week number where the phase ends
Save
Click Save to add the phase to your template.
When you apply a template to a client’s planner, template phases convert to date-based phases starting from the application date.
Template Phase Behaviour
Unlike planner phases, template phases adjust when you change the template’s structure:
| Action | Template Phase Behaviour |
|---|---|
| Insert week | Phases after insertion point shift forward; spanning phases extend |
| Delete week | Phases after deletion point shift back; spanning phases shrink |
| Duplicate week | Single-week phases in the duplicated week are copied |
| Clear week | Only single-week phases in that week are removed |
Related
- Planner — The planner interface phases sit on
- Templates — Create reusable training plan templates
- Training Plans — Structure longer-term training programmes