Here are the most recent updates and changes to TrainingPeaks.com Version 3.0 Beta. Subscribe to our Blog to receive updates of What's New by Email or RSS.

*Answers to Frequently Asked Questions can be found here

11/19/2009 - build 3.0.11076

• *VirtualCoach has arrived! 
• Create an ATP, then click the VirtualCoach button to get workout suggestions
• Remember, the best way to use TrainingPeaks is with a  coach or trainer , but for a very low cost alternative that provides solid guidance, look no further.
• *Share training plans and exercise libraries that you own with anyone
• *Export any manually created route, or any route you created from a GPS file as:
  
• Garmin course (.tcx) - Upload to your Garmin so it can navigate you during the workout
• CompuTrainer Course (.crs) - Bring outdoor rides inside!
• CompuTrainer 3D course (.3dc) - True turn-for-turn and elevation profile simulation indoors!
• GPX (.gpx)
• Google Earth (.kml)
• TACX trainer (.pgmf) -simulate courses on your TACX trainer
  
• New public profile pages
• Professionals have an improved interface for managing client categories
• Improved pop-up interfaces for people and training sections, now using standard buttons
• Various bug fixes, including the following:
• fixed imports for Runner's World users that were breaking
• fixed issue with meal and workout start times causing change of date
• recurring billing payment information can now be updated again from within an account
• laps and splits pod lap duration now correctly matching lap duration in Graph summary
• multiple minor fixes with certain device file types not populating fields in Pods on uploads, including:
• .hrm files with large recording rates
• appended iBike files

*VirtualCoach, File Exports and sharing of libraries and plans are all features for premium subscribers only.

11/2/2009 - build 3.0.10810

• Added drag and drop to Day View
• Added View Day button on QuickView
• Improved the "fewer details" list view of routes
  
• Fixed ATP actual hours in list view
• Fixed flash debug errors when dragging routes in public views
• Fixed and improved new Dashboard layouts, enabling easier drag and drop of new pods 
• Fixed issue with non-UBC coaches  being mis-identified as UBC enabled
  

10/29/2009 - build 3.0.10766

• Annual Training Plan (ATP). Fully revamped and easier to use, with graph view and interactive drag to change weekly times. Easier, faster. Find it under the "Training" section on the left, click the "Templates" dropdown, then pick ATP.
• Coaches can use their own period naming convention (My Settings, ATP)
  
• Day View - All new Day View is now your "all in one place" for recording or viewing workouts/meals. See everything in one place including:
• Daily Metrics
• Weekly Goals
• Workouts, with expanded set/rep/interval view
  
• Nutrition
• Daily Chart
  
• Routes
  
• Workout QuickView now allows you to drag routes directly onto it
• Meal QuickView now allows you to drag foods directly onto it for building a meal
• Customize your default view upon login. Goto My Settings, Calendar & Layout, you can now choose to have the Calendar, Spreadsheet or Dashboard as your default view upon login. Also, choose your default Calendar view (day, week or month)
• Customize the information you see on the Summary Column on the Calendar's month view.
• Weekly Goals ported to the Calendar, look for a check-mark on the summary column of the month view.
  
• Structured workout improvements:
• re-order sets as needed
• custom zone substitution for actual values when using HR or PWR zones. For example, prescrbing a workout in "heart rate zone 2" will display to the client/user as "heart rate zone 2 (145-158)
• Structured workouts with zones can be saved in your workout library and applied to any user
• Welcome Pod on the Dashboard... explains how to use pods and customize Dashboard
• Revamped calculation engine for processing uploaded data files
• Drastically improved "altitude gain" calculation
• Improved gap and data-dropout handling
• Structured workout details and extensions now included in Daily Emails
• Several bug fixes, including:
• applying a training plan now keeps "planned start time" for workouts
• clicking "completed as planned" no longer overwrites planned duration/distance
• international time zone support improved
• corrected issue with marking a meal as consumed in Quick View not sticking
• over reporting volume of duration in speed distribution pod corrected
• Route History pod accessible again
• corrected display issue with Meal Time in Detailed View
• corrected issue where cursor disappeared under certain circumstances after editing a route
• deleting workout from Spreadsheet no longer results in oops error
• Instructional text added to initial view of left-side section

9/22/2009 - build 3.0.10407

• Refined the user interface, reduced clutter, added simple menu system where appropriate
• Fixed two key loading bugs that caused the app to hang on "initializing" and sometimes not to load the appropriate color scheme
  
• Revamped Spreadsheet view
• Faster editing
• Search now looks in all text fields and displays results only (instead of highlighting by default)
  
• Vertical separator has cleaner style. One-click to close left side accordians, drag to re-open
  
• Log Daily Metrics from the Calendar
• Revamped daily metrics logging form (easier and faster)
• Small icon added to Calendar to show on which days metrics have been recorded
• Graph daily metrics over time on the Dashboard
• Graph any two metrics on the same pod
• Add multiple pods to track multiple metrics
  
• Combined "Settings" and "Preferences" into a single dialog to make finding options easier
• Added a "Start" screen with instructional videos for the major features
• Removed "Journal" tab
• workouts or meals are now opened full screen for editing in a "detailed view"
• Removed the word "Perspectives" and simply refer to the view customization as "pod layouts"
• Several new pods added:
• Grocery List (Dashboard) - Basic and Premium
  
• Route History (Dashboard) - Premium only
  
• Daily Metrics Graphing (Dashboard) - Premium only
• Mean Max Cadence - Premium only
• Mean Max Heart Rate - Premium only
• Mean Max Speed - Premium only
• Cadence distribution - Premium only
• Major updates to the file viewer/graphing engine on the detailed workout view:
• Ability to show "All Data", so spikes and troughs are not lost and chart data doesn't change on chart resize
• Ability to turn on / off Interpolation of the series (interpolation will only occur if the series has < 85% valid points)
• Single points (e.g. from Garmin 310XT elevation, where having a null, then a point, then a null, is common) are now displayed as single dots, where before they were just invisible
• Ability to choose the data visible in the Laps picker area (duration, distance, start / stop, speed, power, etc)
• New section for "Bests", where user can choose to see the top values for Speed, Cadence, Power, Heart Rate on the graph (very similar to WKO+)
• Highlighted bests drawn as a different color than laps, so they don't get confused.
• Routes can now be exported to Google Maps or Google Earth (KML)
• Fixed several international time zone issues for Australia and New Zealand users
  
• Professional Edition "Last planned workout" report (click Options button in the People section)
  
• QuickView refinements
• Changed View on Journal to "View all details" button at bottom
• Now displays a paper-clip when there is an attachment, click paperclip to download from QuickView
• Added start time of workout to title bar
• Pre-activity comments only show for a coach (Professional Edition user) or if they have been filled out (similar to classic mode).
  
• Fixed/improved the nutrition search, especially for finding raw foods like eggs and apples
• Clicking divider bar closes "left-side" accordian section, drag it to resize again
• Improved .wko file reading on server, now view self-created ranges when uploading from WKO+
• Added CTS Running heart rate zones, added Durata training zones
• Improved Route Builder interface for details view
• Crop a route
• Cleaner interface for Details view
• Faster
• Improved new food data-entry form, add micronutrients, uses full-screen
• Search foods by micronutrient content or by name
• Several nutrition bug fixes for partial serving size calculations and meal building
  
• Select All option for picking clients for bulk download of files
• Added better route searching (based on popularity)
• Fixed issues with healthvault sync and updated to newest version of HealthVault sdk
• New billing reports for Professional Edition users (daily usage, training plan sales, library sales)

8/18/2009 - build 3.0.9888

• Professional Edition now can manage post-workout email notifications
• Mileage on equipment now shows properly in Equipment tab on QuickView
  
• Added CTS heart rate zone calculator
• Usability enhancements for copy/paste
• Improved reliability of structured workouts and routines for distance and duration
  
• Various bug fixes
  

8/14/2009 - build 3.0.9847: Routes, Printing

• Routes: Massive overhaul of routes and all new public route database
• Build routes manually using "follow roads" or a combination of  "follow roads" and "manual" entry
  
• Interactive elevation profile for ALL routes, see the grade of any hill
• Drag routes to your Calendar for logging or planning.
• Searchable public route database, search by elevation gained, sport type, surface type, distance, location
• Map-based search interface for finding routes near you or near where you are going to be (hotels etc.)
• Share routes via Facebook, Twitter, Email or with a URL
• Create routes from a GPS file in any of your workouts
• Drag any route's point on the map to re-design the route
• Coaches can view client's routes and can schedule workouts based on your clients location
• Comment and rate any route, tell us your experience when you did that ride or run
• Calendar Printing
• Display a printable view of your workouts or meals
• Printout includes structured intervals / exercises
  
• Select date range, show heart rate and power zones on printout
• Choose paged or non-paged printout options
• Includes coaches/affiliates logo on each page
  
• Improved fonts, clearer and larger
• Moved "My Settings" to top of page
• New Notification Bar at the top of the application for system notes, tips and announcements
  

7/1/2009 - build 3.0.9202 (mostly bug fixes on this release)

• Bulk download of device files
  
• Sharing in Twitter or Facebook now uses a short URL like: http://tpks.ws/T34J . We chose tpks.ws as it loosly stands for "TrainingPeaks Web Service"
• The QuickView now has proper tab-order
• Rounding of certain planned or actual durations no longer occasionally adds or loses a second
  
• Deleting workouts with pending data no longer causes oops error
• Food quantities no longer change when changing the quantity and meal time
• Calories are calculated & displayed properly when manually entering a workout duration
• Average speeds/pace now match between Stats pod and Graph pod
• Improved compatibility for Suunto T6 and T6c
• Download device files directly from the QuickView
• Fixed issue with Calories pod not showing consumed calories properly
• Added better error messaging to Professional Edition when adding a client
• Fixed lap names from certain devices that said "null", now says Lap 1, Lap 2 etc.
• Changed name of "Demo Strength Library" to "Basic Strength Library" (more appropriate)

6/10/2009 - build 3.0.8861

• Added Public View preferences to My Settings/Personal Info tab
• Added Email options to My Settings/Account tab to select your nightly email delivery time and opt-in to our newsletter
• Fixed bug with scrolling the month view of the calendar by multiple weeks (horizontal arrow controls)
• Fixed calculation bug on Workout Journal Graph that showed negative averages for long workouts
• Added client sign-up link for the "New Client" form in Professional Edition
• QuickView "Exercises" tab renamed to "Exercises & Intervals" to better describe its functionality
• Adding a new structured exercise or interval now launches directly to the editor window
• Viewing Calendar & Spreadsheet together now honors selected date range for Spreadsheet charts
  

6/1/2009 - build 3.0.8756

• Added Training Distance by Week/Day Pod to the Dashboard
• Added Training Duration by Week/Day Pod to the Dashboard
• Bug fixes on certain structured exercises
• New exercise libraries from Gray Institute and Hunter Allen
  

5/21/2009 - build 3.0.8663

• Improved user interface for building structured workouts
  
• Improved QuickView with exercises, equipment and easier data entry
• Build plans with workouts AND meals together
• Add and track Bikes and Shoes (Equipment)
• Customize the instructions you want to use on each structured workout, by type
• Added CTS Power zone calculator
• Improved interface for Workout Journal - now two tabs "Details" & "Maps & Graph" 
• Customize View with improved Pods library
• Exercise Library Store- buy bundles of exercises to use for building workouts for yourself or clients
• Changed left side Accordian, added Plans, Pods & Store as a single accordian
• Training Plans and Meal Plans now under its own Accordian
• Improved handling of null samples in graph when uploading from devices
• Improved Perspective manager (perspectives are groups of pods that you can customize as needed to customize your view)
• Updated overall interface to be more consistent for colors and button bars
• Removed "People" accordian in Personal Edition
  

4/30/2009 - Build 3.0.8417

• Structured Workouts -what are they?
  
• Build intervals and create workouts with set/rep/weight 
• Create your own Libraries of workouts with your own classification and categorization (Filter group and filters)
  
• Attach files to workouts permanently
• Add Video to any workout from our existing Libraries of video (Have a media library? Conact us so we can build a library for you)
• Template Builder - Create workouts, exercises and routines
• Exercises = single exercise with instructions and video (bench press)
• Routines = groups of exerices each with instructions and optional video (abs routine)
  
• Workouts = collection of exercises and/or routines with an overall descirpiton and instruction (core workout with warmup, cooldown and multiple instructions)
• Create custom Libraries containing your workouts
  
• Revamped Calendar
• All new look and feel
• Faster
• Larger fonts
• Easier navigation
• Copy/Cut/Paste/Delete totally rebuilt for reliability, use Alt and Ctrl key to select then copy/paste
  
• Improved Spreadsheet
• Now see the entire workout description in each cell, no more scrolling
  
• Larger easier to read font
• All days show by default
• Bug fixes
• Removed HTML from workout descripitons, comments and post-activity comments (better support throughout all applications)
• All New QuickView
• Faster, easier to use
• Direct cut/copy/paste/delete
• Upload a device file from QuickView
• Download a device file from QuickView
  
• Directly edit Description/Comments/Post-Activity Comments
• Direct edit of planned and actual times
• Application Preferences improved and usable from anywhere in the application, see "Preferences" link at top of screen
• User Settings easier to manage
• Mobile Application
• • Now available for Beta testing, contact us for this initial invite only application, premium subscribers only
    

3/13/2009 - Build 3.0.7814

• Added workout labels for Activity Comments (coach's comments) and Post Activity Comments in addition to Description
• Public file viewer displays a loading bar on start-up
• Basic printing on Calendar for workouts
  
• Modified speed units for running on the list view to display as pace
• Autofilling the calories burned on a workout when a duration is entered and nutrition preferences are set.
• Corrected the formatting of the durations (for specific sport types) on the week summary on month view of calendar
• AutoMerge(tm) of device files from separate devices upon upload- Premium feature only
  
• using the time/date stamp in each file, we create a 3rd merged file of all channels
  
• Peak Power Values automatically calculated and entered as ranges on Laps/Splits pod and Graph Pod
• Laps/Splits now visible for all file types except .wko files
  
• Auto compress all file types on upload (gzip)
• Using stream for upload to lower memory usage instead of byte-array
• Fixed mean-max pod scrollbar issue
• Improved HTML compatibility on Calendar and Spreadsheet (now supporing <  or > in a workout description)
• Allow for device files to be uploaded with no actual samples (timex and WKO manual entry bug fix)
• Week Summary on Calendar now shows times using hh:mm:ss instead of decimal hours
• Added a check to allow professional users to re-submit credit card for outstanding invoices

2/4/2009 - Build 3.0.7324

• Nutrition Preferences and Calorie and RMR Calculators (click person, Preferences, Nutrition prefs)
• Manage Client Categories (add new/edit/delete)
• Sharing now supported to Facebook, Google Earth, Google Maps and via Email
• Import clients with existing accounts (from personal edition or professional edition)
• Power Zones more easily edited
• Client can now disconnect themselves from a Coach
• Exporting uploaded data file from Journal
• Route builder auto-starts edit mode
• Highlight on Graph Pod now highlights the Map Pod area
• Pods now automatically adjust sizes on Journal
• Update credit card info for recurring UBC option
  

1/22/2009

• Colorized workouts now visible on Calendar (Menu: Workouts -> Colorized Workouts)
• White: no workout on given day
• Blue: workout exists
• Green: Actual time +- 20% of planned time
• Yellow: Actual time between 50%-79% or 121-150% of completed time
• Red: not completed or actual time less than 50% of planned time or greater than 150% of planned time
• Changed library to use custom data grids for display, no more "folders"
  
• Changed "edit/add" feature in Libraries to pop-out to the right rather than slide down
• Library data-grid keeps first column "fixed" and allows scrollable or expandable view
• Add Map Pod to show GPS routes on Journal
  
• Add Route Builder functionality under Training section (manual route building or create from file)
• drag routes onto calendar for planning
• drag routes onto empty Map pod on journal to attach route to non-GPS workout
  
• Add Graph Pod for device data file analysis (WKO+ style analysis now on the web)
• highlight ranges, see summary values
• see laps/splits automatically (currently, laps supported only on Garmin, PowerTap and SRM)
• Added additional information to "people pop-up" details window (client type, owner etc.)
  
• Unlimited Basic Client (UBC) feature released for Professionals
• upgrade to unlimited option
  
• add clients as basic or premium
  
• Assistants now visible and searchable in People Library
• Clients of Assistants now visible in People Library
• Old-style "groups" no longer supported (use client categories)
• Old-style "lite" clients no longer supported
• Adding clients to holding pen no longer supported, use client categories and UBC instead
• WKO+: Updated and easier licensing system
• WKO+: www.cyclingpeakssoftware.com website now redirected to TrainingPeaks.com
• Nutrition: Fixed serving size bug and quantity setting bug
• Calendar: Fixed copy workout, now properly copies planned distance and 'activity comments'
• Changed Pod menu structure on Journal: Basic, HR, Power, Map- Graph & Files
  

1/2/2009

• Training Plan Store: Search or Browse all plans, then purchase and apply from within app
  
• Training plans now visible under "Training, Plans" in Library
• apply, delete, re-apply, move training plans
• Weekly summary now appears as option under "Weeks" menu on Calendar
• Support for 5 more languages: Spanish, Italian, French, German, Portuguese
• Improved loading time and faster response times by almost 2x
• Enable more options for Calendar display: Show/Hide icons, show workout type, Week Summary box
• Added icons to each Library accordian option

11/14/2008

• Device Agent for Mac now supports SRM PC VI
• Device Agent for PC's and WKO+ now support Polar RS 800CX
• TP.com 3.0 supports Timex Race Trainer

11/13/2008

• Post Workout Notification Emails now contain a link to File Viewer (Pro Ed. only) 

11/12/2008

• Select multiple labels for workouts on Calendar
• Expanded Workout Description label for Calendar
• Settings remembered for Calendar weeks and labels
• Settings remembered for Library, search and display criteria
• Add a Client (professional edition)
  
• Updated Calendar to cleaner look and feel
• People now in tree view in Library (professional edition)
• Build a Meal
• Make favorites on Meal Builder for each food
  
• Add meals to Calendar
• Create meals and save to Meal library
  
• Improved Laps and Splits Pod (Journal)
• Mean Max Curve with Comparison (Journal)
• Mean Max Curve with Comparison (Dashboard)
• Improved Daily Calories Pod and Calorie Balance (Dashboard)
• Change workout type (Journal)
• Faster Dashboard rendering
• Files Pod now accepts file attachements (ie, word docs, excel docs, pictures, etc.)

10/14/2008

• Various Bug Fixes
• Optimized loading time and increased overall speed of app
• Nutrition Favorites functionality added
• Cloning and editing of foods in Nutritiion Library added
• .NET 3.5 library for server systems
  

10/3/2008

• Introduction of Spreadsheet View (sort columns, re-order, search, find, edit-in-place, quick view, color coding, rich editing)
• Menu options moved to top for easier navigation
• Added "View File" button to Files pod on Journal for launching the File Viewer chart
• Changed button bar to Tabs
• Improved weekly and daily summary pop-ups on Calendar
• Improved reliability of quick-view
• Improved Laps and Splits pod, grid view and coloring
• Improved Meal Builder, made removing food consistent using "x" icon
• Changed "Home" accordian to "People"
• Enhanced reliability of calendar/dashboard and dual calendar view
• Various Bug fixes
  

9/17/2008

• Enhanced interface for viewing/editing workouts, Pods on the Calendar. View Journal Pods on top of Calendar.
• Calendar functionality changes: one-click workout to select, double-click to open Pod, click green "arrow" on pop-up Pod to open in full Journal
• Improved File upload Pod, now also has attachments (word docs, excel etc)
• Improved Home Library, customizable, searchable, sortable
• Training Library has better search and sort
• Nutrition Library has better search and sort
• Training Plans supported now for Pro Edition users, load a plan to multiple accounts
• Improved Laps and Splits Pod, customize data
• Consistent colors across application (power = magenta, fat = yellow etc)
• Free vs. Premium modes distinction
• Upgrade to Premium functionality (submit payment)
• Preferences are now in a pop-up window when hovering on a name of a user in the Home Library
• Preferences "main tab" in upper right hand section of account has been removed
• Recalculate data function from uploaded file now working on Files Pod
• Professional Edition user settings accessed via pop-up utility when hovering on Professional Edition user's name
• Hovering over Day or Week selection boxes in calendar now displays planned duration for that date/time range
• Calendar date range navigation options are now all centerally located at the top of the Calendar 

8/5/2008

• Power Zones in the Preferences tab was added.
• Training Library Filter options was streamlined.
• Meal Library Filter options was streamlined.
• Calendar Meal Label customization was added.
• Calendar Workout Label customization was added.
• Calendar Filters customization was added.

8/1/2008

• TrainingPeaks.com Version 3.0 Beta released!