Today's Plan Alternative
With the closure of Today's Plan, we at FormBeat extend a warm welcome to all self-coached athletes looking for an easy-to-use smart training platform. Connect Strava or Garmin and your training picture rebuilds itself in minutes.
Finding a New Home After Today's Plan
Today's Plan served serious athletes well for years. Here is what to look for in a replacement, and how FormBeat covers it.
Keep your training load history
A platform shutting down usually means losing years of fitness, fatigue, and form continuity overnight.
FormBeat backfills your complete ride history from Strava or Garmin Connect and rebuilds your fitness, fatigue, and power records from day one.
The same training science
Today's Plan users are used to serious load tracking, not a social feed with surface-level stats.
FormBeat is built on the same foundations: CTL, ATL, and TSB, training load with optimal range bands, full power curve, and personal records at every duration.
Daily guidance, not just dashboards
Charts tell you where you are. They do not tell you whether to ride hard today.
FormBeat computes a 0-10 readiness score every morning and suggests a workout type, intensity, and estimated TSS to match your actual fatigue.
A modern AI layer
Reading your own training data takes time and expertise that most self-coached athletes do not have.
FormBeat generates an AI summary of every ride and gives you a conversational AI Coach that answers questions directly from your data.
FormBeat vs Today's Plan: An Honest Comparison
Today's Plan is no longer available, so this is less a head-to-head and more a map of where its strengths live on in FormBeat - and what works differently.
| Capability | FormBeat | Today's Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic training analysis | ✓ Every ride analyzed and explained | ✓ Strong load analytics (now offline) |
| Fitness, fatigue and form tracking | ✓ CTL, ATL and TSB, interpreted for you | ✓ Was a core strength |
| Daily readiness and workout guidance | ✓ 0-10 score with daily suggestions | Limited |
| AI coaching | ✓ AI ride summaries and conversational AI Coach | — |
| Structured workout building | — | ✓ Had a full workout builder |
| Historical data import | ✓ Full backfill from Strava or Garmin | Export-only since closure |
| Designed for | Self-coached intermediate cyclists | Coached and self-coached athletes |
“If you find yourself wishing there was just one simple resource you could rely on to fully explain, examine and guide your training, FormBeat could be your answer.”
Should You Switch?
FormBeat is for you if
- ✓ You were self-coaching with Today's Plan and want the analysis done for you
- ✓ You want your fitness, fatigue, and form history rebuilt without spreadsheets
- ✓ You want a daily answer to "how hard should I train today?"
- ✓ You want AI analysis of every ride instead of decoding charts yourself
Look at other options if
- • You need a full structured workout builder - TrainingPeaks is the strongest fit
- • You train almost entirely indoors with erg workouts - consider TrainerRoad
- • You want a free, fully customizable DIY platform - intervals.icu is excellent
Your rides are full of data. See what they mean.
Form & Fitness
Keep track of your fitness, fatigue and your current form. Form prediction helps you to plan ahead for your next event or a race.
Weekly Training Status
See your progress week by week – Training status will evaluate your weekly progress and show you how productive was your training.
Training Stress Score®
Training Stress Score is an estimate of overal training load for a given training session, calculated from its duration and intensity.
Normalized Power®
Normalized Power smooths out the variability in the power of your ride caused by different factors (e.g. terrain, wind, grade, etc.)
Intensity Factor®
Use Intensity Factor to easily see how hard was a ride compared to your overall fitness.
Variability Index
Variability Index shows how evenly paced was your power output during your ride or race.
Power Analysis
Explore your power curve and keep track of your records - see how your maximum power change over time.
Critical Power (CP)
Critical Power estimates the power you can hold for long efforts, modeled from your everyday rides - a more complete read on your endurance than FTP alone.
W' (Anaerobic Capacity)
W' is your anaerobic battery - the energy you can spend above Critical Power on attacks, climbs and sprints before you need to recover.
Automatic FTP Detection
FormBeat detects when your FTP has improved and suggests an update - so your zones and analysis stay accurate without a dedicated test.
Zone Analysis
Analyze the time you spend in each heart rate or power zone.
Aerobic Efficiency
Track how your watts per heartbeat improve over time on endurance rides. A rising trend means a stronger aerobic engine.
Testimonials
What Athletes are Saying
4.9 / 5
Real feedback from cyclists who train with FormBeat
The best app I’ve found for making sense of my training data, and easily the simplest to actually understand.
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.
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.
I still have Intervals.icu, but FormBeat is so much easier to understand — cleaner, more modern, and it just tells me what actually matters.
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.
Connects straight to Strava and finally puts meaning behind the numbers. The AI chat is genuinely useful - well worth the few bucks a month.
