How it works

How kovaa plans and adapts.

kovaa plans your season around your race and your week, then adjusts it as things change.

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01The plan

It starts with your race and your normal week.

Tell kovaa your race, your experience and the days you can train. It splits the season into base, build, peak and taper, and most of it is easy.

See real example plans
18 weeks to Chattanooga: the season, phase by phase
The Plan tab: this week, done against planned

02Your numbers

Every target comes from your own numbers.

Bike power comes from your FTP, run pace from your threshold pace and swim pace from your CSS. When you get faster, kovaa suggests the new number.

A threshold run with targets set from your threshold pace

03Every morning

It checks how you slept.

kovaa compares last night's sleep, HRV and resting heart rate with your normal. On a green day nothing changes. Amber eases today's session, and red turns it into rest.

Readiness: HRV, resting heart rate, sleep and breathing rate against your baseline
Today, eased after a short night

04When things change

When your week doesn't go to plan.

You miss a session

Key sessions move to another day this week. Easy ones are dropped.

Asks for key sessions

You nail the hard sessions

Hit your targets twice in a row and the next one steps up, say from 3 × 15 to 3 × 18.

Asks before raising a threshold

You slept badly or HRV is low

An amber morning eases today. A red one turns it into rest, with no hard work for two days.

Automatic, with undo

You're sick

With a cold you get short, easy sessions. With a fever you rest, then ease back in.

Always applies

Something hurts

Pain of 4 out of 10 or more pauses that sport and swaps in cross-training.

Always applies

You're busy or traveling

Tell kovaa Thursday is out and it rearranges just this week. Travel mode works around no pool or no bike.

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05You decide

You decide what it changes on its own.

Ask me for everythingEvery change waits for your OK.
Auto minor changesSmall changes happen on their own, and bigger ones ask first. Recommended.
Auto all except key sessionskovaa runs the week, but key sessions still ask.

Every change is saved with its reason in Plan › History of changes. Illness and pain rules always apply.

History of changes: every plan change with its reason

Not medical advice. kovaa plans training. It doesn't diagnose or treat anything. If something hurts or you feel unwell, talk to a doctor or physical therapist.

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