Triathlete’s Training Bible Excel Template
One of the things you learn quickly training for a triathlon is how many different training plans are out there.
One of my favorite tri books, The Triathlete’s Training Bible, provides templates (at least in text) and a methodology you can use to develop your own customized yearly training plan.
The reason why training plans have to be somewhat customized for each person is that everyone has races at different times, different durations of races, etc.
Joe suggests printing out copies of his templates and using pencil to fill them out. Ha! No offense to Joe, but I’m an Excel guy. Very easy to manipulate, etc. Judging from the posts on some of the triathlon forums, there are a lot of data-heads out there as well.
So I went through the trouble of creating pretty close replicas of those templates in Excel. For the Yearly Training Plan, I even made it so you can type in the year at the top and it will fill out the rest of the rest of the dates for you — an improv
Here is a link to my triathlon yearly training plan Excel template. With all credit due to Joe Friel for the original version.
You want to enable macros as there are formulas which build these documents.
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