Dynamic plans: shared subscription calendars

Static plan vs dynamic plan

Grepiac has two kinds of multi-week plan, and they behave differently on purpose:

• A static plan (a "training plan") is a week-offset grid you apply to an athlete with a start date. It spawns independent, per-athlete-editable copies and can be unapplied as a unit. Good for a fixed block (a 12-week 70.3 build) handed to one athlete. See Workouts, library & training plans.
• A dynamic plan is a boundless, date-keyed shared calendar. Athletes subscribe to it, and whatever you place on it shows up on every subscriber's calendar at that absolute date. Good for a squad calendar that runs indefinitely, or a multi-season planning library.

How a dynamic plan works

Each entry sits on a real date. When you add one, it spawns a real ScheduledWorkout for every active subscriber (so pairing, Load, week totals and compliance all work normally). The sync rules:

• Add an entry → it appears for every active subscriber.
• Edit an entry → still-planned copies update; completed or athlete-edited copies are left as history.
• Remove an entry → still-planned copies are removed; completed ones stay and are just unlinked.
• Subscribe → the plan's entries from today forward appear on that athlete's calendar (history is not back-filled).
• Unsubscribe → future still-planned copies are removed; anything already done stays.

Building one

Open the editor at /coach/dynamic-plan/<id>/ — an 8-week, date-keyed grid with prev/next paging, a template/ad-hoc picker, and the subscriber manager. Create a plan, place workouts on dates, then add subscribers.

Feeding it from the macrocycle planner

You do not have to place every session by hand. From the ATP Builder, Push to dynamic plan lays a generated season's dated sessions straight onto a dynamic plan. Because entries are keyed by absolute date, you can run the planner for several seasons and push each onto the same plan — they accumulate into a multi-year library that every subscriber receives. Leave replace overlapping dates on so re-running one season replaces just that season. See Macrocycle plans: the basics.

When an athlete edits a dynamic session

If an athlete changes a workout that came from a dynamic plan, that copy detaches — it becomes their own static copy and stops tracking the plan, so later plan edits no longer overwrite it. The plan keeps the original for everyone else.

Hiding a plan or weeks from athletes

You can stage a plan privately and reveal it when ready. In the plan editor:

• The header button toggles the whole plan between 👁 Visible to athletes and 🙈 Hidden from athletes.
• Each week row has a hide week toggle for hiding just that week.
• Right-click a workout for 🙈 Hide from athletes / 👁 Show to athletes on just that session. It flips every subscriber's copy at once and the pill shows a 🙈 badge.

While hidden, the sessions still sit on each subscriber's calendar and you (the coach) always see them, dimmed; the athlete does not. Flip the toggle back and they appear for everyone. Existing plans stay visible, so nothing changes for current subscribers until you choose to hide something.

A workout hidden on its own stays hidden when you reveal its week — so you can stage several options on one day, reveal the week, and the athletes only see the sessions you decided on. Un-hide it from the right-click menu when you are ready.

Power / pace targets on a one-off workout

Each step can be a target (one number) or a range (a band like 95–100% FTP), switched with the small target/range button on the step. The Z? picker fills a range straight from a zone — pick Zone 2 and you get its real band (60–74%), not a single midpoint. Steps can also be written by time or distance: hit the time/dist button to prescribe 8 × 100 m instead of minutes. A distance step keeps its time estimate too, so Load and weekly totals stay correct.

On export: Garmin .fit carries ranges and distance steps natively. Zwift .zwo gets a band on steady blocks, but its interval format takes a single power per leg, so a range there shows as its midpoint.

When you add a one-off workout to a dynamic plan (the "or a one-off workout" box), open + Power / pace targets to build intervals — warmup, steady, ramp, intervals, cooldown — exactly like the calendar workout builder. Intensities are set as a percentage of threshold (FTP, threshold pace, LTHR) or RPE, so a single structure resolves to each subscriber's own zones: "4×5 min @ 100% FTP" is the right watts for every athlete on the plan. Editing the targets later propagates to subscriber copies that are still planned. Workouts picked from a template already carried their structure; this closes the gap for typed-in one-offs.