On the trainer
Sweet Spot Cruise
Warm up 15 minutes. Ride 35 minutes at 85 to 90% of FTP, cadence 85 to 95. Cool down 15 minutes.
Adaptive cycling training plans You don’t fail training plans. They fail you.
FormBeat builds your plan from the riding you already do, fits it to the week you actually have, and rebuilds it after every ride. Miss a session, catch a cold, travel for work: it simply carries on, and you keep getting faster.
Built to be interrupted
Most plans are written for a rider with eight free hours, perfect sleep and a week that never moves. Yours bends around real life and keeps going.
You miss Tuesday
A fixed plan: It piles onto Saturday, or you spend the week catching up.
FormBeat plan: Ride it a day or two late and it still counts. Miss it and it is gone, with nothing to catch up.
You catch a cold
A fixed plan: You push through it, or restart from week one.
FormBeat plan: Easy days to come back, then sessions restart one level easier.
You ride with friends
A fixed plan: It doesn’t count. You are “off plan”.
FormBeat plan: Every ride counts. A hard group ride is treated as a hard day.
Work eats your evenings
A fixed plan: Sessions sized for someone with more time.
FormBeat plan: Every session fits the minutes you said you have.
You sleep badly
A fixed plan: The plan doesn’t know, or it rewrites your whole week.
FormBeat plan: Today gets softer. The rest of the week stays as it was.
You’re not ready to step up
A fixed plan: It gets harder every week regardless.
FormBeat plan: It moves you up only when your rides and your answers show you’re ready.
Your plan in about a minute
No questionnaire and no fitness test. Your rides already know how strong you are.
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Pick what you’re training for
A gran fondo in June, your first crit, or simply a higher FTP. The plan counts its phases back from the day.
- 2
Confirm your week
Which days you can ride, and roughly how long. With a few weeks of rides behind you, we fill it in and you just check it.
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Ride. It rebuilds.
The coming week stays fixed so you can plan around it. Everything after is rebuilt from every ride you finish.
Say it to your AI cycling coach, and the plan rearranges itself.
“Cancel my Saturday ride.”
Your AI coach
Done. Saturday’s long ride moves to Sunday, and Monday stays easy so you’re fresh for Tuesday’s intervals.
2 changes to your plan UndoThe coach never invents sessions or training load. The plan engine checks every change against its rules, and you can undo any of it.
Get faster. Ride stronger. Feel it on race day.
+5 to 10% higher FTP after 12 weeks of structured training
- More power at threshold. Sweet spot, threshold and VO2max work in the right doses, so your FTP keeps climbing.
- Stronger at the end of long rides. Long rides that grow week by week, so the last climb hurts less.
- Fresh, not flat, on race day. A taper that cuts the hours and keeps the intensity.
The typical gain in published studies of structured interval training (Sylta et al., 2016). Your plan shows its own projection before you start.
Testimonials
What Athletes are Saying
4.9 / 5
Real feedback from cyclists who train with FormBeat
Roly
Road racer
I have been waiting for something like this.
Jeff
Competitive Cyclist
I still have Intervals.icu, but FormBeat is so much easier to understand — cleaner, more modern, and it just tells me what actually matters.
Rob
Cyclist
I was really impressed and think it is a great product. The use of CP and W’ adds a lot of value and lets this platform stand out compared to others.
Mark
Road cyclist
FormBeat is my go-to site to analyze my rides and the first thing I check after a ride.
Stanley G.
Triathlete
By far my favorite app for analyzing my training. The feedback on my intervals and efficiency is spot on, and it tells me exactly what to work on next - VO2, threshold, zone 2.
Leon C.
42 years, cycling enthusiast
Finally I understand the why behind every ride. The reasoning before and the feedback after show me exactly where I am in my plan and it matches how my legs actually feel.
Eric B.
Endurance athlete
The best app I’ve found for making sense of my training data, and easily the simplest to actually understand.
David
Cycling Enthusiast
I came to FormBeat disillusioned with Strava, which had become more about the social feed than real insight. This is clear, serious analysis without the complexity of other tools.
Gert van de Poll
App Store review
Connects straight to Strava and finally puts meaning behind the numbers. The AI chat is genuinely useful - well worth the few bucks a month.
Ride it outside, on the trainer, or both
Every session comes in two versions. Outdoor rides count just as much, and a hard group ride on Saturday counts as a hard day.
On the road
Sweet Spot Cruise
Find a quiet flat road or bike path. Settle into a steady, controlled effort and hold it: uncomfortable, never a strain.
Sessions reach your devices through intervals.icu, or as a file.
Wahoo COROS ZWO, ERG, MRC and FIT filesDirect sync to Garmin, Wahoo and COROS is on its way. Your plan is built from more than 100 structured workouts.
A plan for your gran fondo, your first crit, or just more watts
Train toward a date and the plan tapers you into it. No event on the calendar? Pick a focus for 8 or 12 weeks.
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Gran fondo
Long rides that grow toward race distance.
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Road race
Repeatable power for the moves that matter.
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Criterium
Short, sharp efforts for an hour at the limit.
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Time trial
Steady power you can hold on your own.
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Hill climb
Long efforts just under your limit.
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Gravel race
All-day endurance with strength to spare.
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Stage race
Back-to-back days that teach you to recover.
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Big day out
Not a race. Grow the long ride toward it.
- Raise your FTP More sustainable power.
- Build endurance A longer, stronger long ride.
- Climb stronger Power for long climbs.
- Improve your sprint Top end for short kicks.
- Stay in shape A rhythm you can keep.
The science, minus the homework
Every rule your plan follows comes from published training research. You get the benefit without reading the papers.
Two hard days, the rest easy
Most weeks have two quality sessions and genuinely easy riding around them, the shape recreational riders may improve most on.
Rosenblat et al., 2025, and Neal et al., 2013
Missed sessions are let go
Fitness holds for weeks on less volume, as long as the hard sessions keep their intensity. Catching up is what digs the hole.
Spiering et al., 2021
A taper is not a rest
Cutting volume by 40 to 60 percent while keeping the intensity gives the best race-day legs.
Bosquet et al., 2007, and Mujika & Padilla, 2003
Coach-style planning at an app price
| Feature | Fixed plan or PDF | Typical plan app | Personal coach | 
FormBeat plan
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Re-planned after every ride | No | Yes | Weekly | Yes |
| Missed sessions let go, never crammed in | No | Partly | Yes | Yes |
| Outdoor rides count as much as indoor | No | Partly | Yes | Yes |
| Built from your real riding, no test | No | Partly | Yes | Yes |
| Change it by asking | No | Partly | By message | Yes |
| Ride analysis and AI coach included | No | No | No | Yes |
| Typical cost | $0 to $50 once | $15 to $30 a month | $150+ a month | $6 to $10 a month |
Questions riders ask
What is an adaptive cycling training plan?
A plan that changes as you ride. A fixed plan is written once and assumes every session happens. An adaptive plan reads every ride you do, notices what you missed, how hard sessions felt and how your fitness is moving, and rebuilds the weeks ahead to match. Your FormBeat plan is rebuilt after every ride, while the coming week stays fixed so you can plan around it.
What happens if I miss a workout?
Ride it a day or two late and it still counts. Miss it and it is let go: it does not reappear on Saturday and it is not bolted onto next week, so there is nothing to catch up. If you drift a long way from the plan, it offers a realignment, and you choose whether to accept it.
I mostly ride outside. Do my rides count?
Yes. Every session has an outdoor version, and outdoor rides count just as much as indoor ones. A group ride on Saturday is read, paired with the day and taken into account, and a hard one is treated as a hard day.
Do I need a power meter or a smart trainer?
No. Sessions are written as a share of your FTP, and with a power meter or smart trainer you ride them to the watt. Without one, ride them by feel and heart rate: every ride still counts toward the plan through its heart-rate training load.
Do I need to do an FTP test?
No. The plan reads your fitness from your rides, and with a power meter FormBeat spots a new FTP in your normal riding. There are no mandatory tests in the plan.
How many hours a week do I need?
Whatever you can keep up. Even three or four hours a week makes a real plan: two quality sessions with easy riding around them. Every session is sized to the minutes you give each day, and more time moves your fitness further.
How long is a plan?
An event plan runs up to your event date, built in base, build, peak and taper phases counted back from the day. Without an event, pick a focus such as raising your FTP for 8 or 12 weeks. At the end you get a review of what changed and can plan the next block from there.
How much will my FTP improve?
Riders who train with structure get faster. In published studies, 12 weeks of structured interval training raised sustainable power by 5 to 10 percent, and riders newer to structure often see more. Before you start, your plan shows where it should take your fitness, and as you ride, FormBeat shows you what actually happened.
Does the plan work with Garmin, Wahoo or Zwift?
Yes. Connect intervals.icu and planned sessions arrive on your Garmin calendar and in Zwift and other trainer apps. You can also download any session as a ZWO, ERG, MRC or FIT file for a Wahoo, COROS or any other device. Direct sync to Garmin, Wahoo and COROS is on its way. See getting your plan onto your device.
Is it AI? Can it replace a coach?
The plan itself is built by a rules engine that follows published training research, not by a language model, so the numbers are checked, not guessed. The AI cycling coach reads your plan, explains it and changes it when you ask. It does not replace a human coach who knows you personally, but it covers what most self-coached riders need: structure that adapts, and someone to ask.
How much does it cost?
Training plans are included in every FormBeat membership, along with ride analysis, the AI cycling coach and the weekly summary: $10 a month or $72 a year, after a 30-day free trial.
Why is it in beta?
Because it keeps getting better. More than a hundred riders already train on it, and we improve the plan engine every week from their feedback. Beta means you can tell us what is wrong and see it fixed.
Your fastest season starts this week.
Connect Strava or Garmin, pick a goal and confirm your week. FormBeat handles the rest, including the weeks that don’t go to plan.
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