Add your rides, mark the important ones and choose when you can use the gym. See which gym sessions fit and why other days are left out.
This tool suggests days, not workouts. It does not measure recovery or choose exercises and weights. Your choices stay on this page and are not sent to a server.
Try an example week.
Choose one of five sample weeks. See what happens with fixed gym days, a priority Monday ride, race travel or no suitable gym day. Then change the choices to compare results.
Read all four worked cases. These are hypothetical calendar examples, not athlete results or recovery predictions. The existing tool locks rest and event days.
Your calendar example
Your week
See four worked weeks: fixed gym days, Sunday boundaries, race and travel, and no slot that fits. Compare the full inputs and actual calendar outputs.
How the placement works
The tool uses simple, visible calendar rules:
- Your existing rides keep their days. Rest days and event days receive no new gym session.
- The day before a priority ride or event is kept free of new gym placement.
- Gym sessions are never placed on consecutive calendar days. For a repeating week, Sunday and Monday count as consecutive.
- If you allow same-day training, the gym is a separate session after the ride.
- When several arrangements fit, the tool prefers lighter riding days and gives a lower preference to slots after a long ride. These preferences are balanced across the whole arrangement.
- If your choices leave too little room, the tool shows fewer sessions and explains the constraints. It never hides the missing work by rewriting a ride.
These rules choose calendar days. They do not measure recovery or guarantee you are ready to lift. Your rides, gym work, experience and how you feel still matter.
Research on combining endurance and strength helps explain these decisions, but it has not tested this planner.
EVIDENCE / OUR PLANNING CHOICES
What these rules
are based on.
The studies below explain why session order and training goals matter. They did not test this planner or its rules.
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| The evidence | What it found or does | What it cannot tell you |
|---|---|---|
| Heavy strength training in cyclists Heavy strength review | A review found improvements in selected performance outcomes, with low certainty of evidence. | It does not establish an optimal weekly timetable or validate this planner. |
| Combining endurance and strength Concurrent-training review | A meta-analysis found explosive-strength gains more vulnerable when the work was combined within the same session. | The separate-session option is a planning choice, not a guaranteed recovery interval. |
| Maintaining strength in race season Cycling maintenance study | After a build period, six male strength-trained cyclists retained prior gains with one weekly session across 13 competition weeks. | Exploring one familiar slot can be an option. The study does not set a universal maintenance dose or taper. |
| The free planner’s calendar rules Read every placement rule | Your rides stay on their days. The tool protects rest, events and the day before priority work, and avoids consecutive gym days, including Sunday–Monday when a repeating week is selected. | These are transparent calendar constraints. They do not measure recovery or prescribe exercises, loads or session volume. |
The studies did not test this calendar algorithm. How Good Legs uses evidence.
Read the planning guides.
Read the weekly schedule guide, the same-day riding and lifting guide or the race-season strength guide to understand the choices behind a sample placement.
GOOD LEGS / THE PLANNED IPHONE BETA
The app will go beyond gym days.
Good Legs is being built to plan strength work around your cycling and running. Try the examples below to see how it will work.
- 01
Strength for your training block.
Switch between Sprint, VO₂ max, Threshold and Base to compare example gym sessions.
Explore the training blocks - 02
Tell us how your legs feel.
Try a morning check-in. See what changes in the example gym session, and why.
Explore the check-in - 03
Guided recovery sessions.
See the yoga, meditation and flexibility sessions planned alongside your strength work.
Explore recovery - 04
Share progress with your team.
Preview the private stories you can use to share completed sessions with teammates.
Explore team stories
These examples preview an app still in development. The iPhone beta is planned for January 2027. Keep using your own endurance plan.
The first 100 beta members receive three months free from receiving access. Joining the list is not a purchase, subscription or guaranteed place. Offer terms.