It’s during recovery when fitness actually shows up. When athletes keep training harder but don’t bounce back, coaches get stuck guessing: Is it the plan? The life stress? The intensity?
Our online course, How to Integrate Recovery into Training Plans, gives you a clear, repeatable way to make recovery the main ingredient of training plans—so your athletes absorb the workouts effectively.
You’ll learn how to:
- Build every week around a recovery target so you can confidently call a week “successful” even if the volume of TSS shifts.
- Use a simple 0-5 recovery scale to hit targets and prevent overreaching.
- Blend training stress + life stress into one coaching lens—so a “15-hour week” stops being just a number and starts matching the athlete’s true workload.
- Make the right adjustments at the right time. You’ll explore when to trim intensity, when to reduce volume, and when to scrap or reimagine individual workout sessions.
- Use recovery signals without over-reliance on any single metric. See how benchmarks like resting HR and HRV, wearable devices, and athlete self-awareness can inform your coaching decisions.
Most plans succeed at workouts and fail on recovery. This course offers you a simple, repeatable framework—recovery targets, readiness scoring, and clear decision rules—that will help your athletes progress week after week.
How to Enroll
All USA Cycling courses are offered exclusively through USA Cycling’s online learning management system at learn.usacycling.org.
Questions? Contact Suzy Sanchez, Director of DEI and Membership Programs, at ssanchez@usacycling.org.
