Leaving TrainingPeaks.

Three common profiles switch from TrainingPeaks to a self-coached AI setup:

• The graduating self-coached athlete. You used TrainingPeaks with a coach for a season, learned the metrics, and now want to manage your own training without paying for both a platform and a person.
• The returning athlete.You had a coach during a peak year, took a break (injury, career, family), and you’re coming back to training without the budget for a full coaching relationship.
• The multi-sport switcher.You’re adding cycling or swimming to running (or vice versa) and your current coach specialized in one sport. You need a combined-load view your TP dashboard doesn’t give you.

If none of these fit — especially if you have a coach who uses TrainingPeaks actively and you’re happy — stay on TrainingPeaks. We’re not the right fit for that workflow.

1. Confirm your Strava connection is live

ZoneTwo reads from Strava, not from TrainingPeaks. Most athletes already have devices pushing to both — Garmin, Wahoo, and Zwift all sync to Strava by default. Check your last 30 Strava activities look complete (power, HR, pace). If something’s missing from a device, fix the Strava side before connecting ZoneTwo. We can’t read what Strava can’t see.

2. Connect ZoneTwo to Strava

One OAuth click. We pull the last 60 days of activities and warm up your CTL with 126 days of history for stability. Within two minutes you have a live dashboard: CTL, ATL, TSB, monotony, the readiness score, and a preview of your first weekly review.

3. Update your thresholds

Bring your FTP, threshold HR, and threshold pace from TrainingPeaks. If those are current, our TSS numbers will match your TP numbers within a few percent. If they’re stale — as many are after a season break — re-test before trusting the first weekly review. We flag low confidence when thresholds look old.

4. Wait for the first Sunday review

Resist the urge to trigger a review immediately on day one. The coach’s best reads come from observing your training unperturbed for a week. Use the dashboard and the AI chat in the meantime. On the first Sunday you’ll get a full structured review with a next-block plan.

5. Archive, don’t delete, your TrainingPeaks account

Keep TrainingPeaks active for 30 days after switching. If ZoneTwo doesn’t work for you, you haven’t lost anything. If it does, cancel after the first month. Don’t delete the TP account — your historical PMC and workout library are worth preserving as reference.

• Your Strava activity history. Every ride, run, and swim you uploaded is already in Strava. ZoneTwo reads it directly.
• Your thresholds. FTP, threshold HR, threshold pace. Enter them once in Settings.
• The metrics vocabulary.Coggan TSS, CTL, ATL, TSB — all the same math you’re used to. The labels match.
• Your training understanding. If you learned to read a PMC with your coach, you already know how to read our dashboard. Same shape, same bands.

Workout library

TrainingPeaks has a rich library of curated structured workouts. ZoneTwo writes workouts per week rather than letting you browse a library. If you miss the browsable library, you can keep TP Basic ($0) alongside ZoneTwo as a reference.

Device push of structured workouts

TP pushes structured workouts to Garmin and Wahoo head units. ZoneTwo doesn’t — yet. You’ll execute our prescribed workouts manually. For most non-elite training, written intervals (“4×8 min at 95–100% FTP, 4 min easy”) are plenty.

Coach messaging

TrainingPeaks shines as a coach-athlete conversation layer. ZoneTwo replaces that with the AI chat — available 24/7, grounded in your data, never off on vacation. The tradeoff is obvious: a real coach brings judgement AI can’t match yet.

Deep custom analytics

TP Premium has strong custom charting. For that specifically, many athletes also run Intervals.icu (free forever) alongside ZoneTwo. We focus on the coaching layer; Intervals.icu delivers the dashboard.

Week 1 — Calibration

CTL curve loads from history. The first weekly review will note that it’s your first — lower confidence on trend-based insights. Use the AI chat freely; the dashboard is accurate from day one.

Week 2 — Honest first read

By the second Sunday the coach has seen a full week of you under its attention. This is where the first meaningful plan arrives. It will feel less personal than a human coach for the first few weeks.

Weeks 3–4 — Rhythm

By week four, the coach has history, you have trust in the numbers, and the weekly-review cadence feels normal. If it doesn’t — if the plans feel generic or the chat isn’t useful — tell us at hello@zonetwo.app. We’d rather hear it than lose you.