Does TrainingPeaks write a training plan?

Not by itself. It is where a plan is delivered and analysed. The plan comes from a coach you pay separately, from a purchased template, or from you. Shed writes it.

Can I use Shed and TrainingPeaks together?

You can run both, but there is no direct integration. Shed does not write your plan into TrainingPeaks and does not read from it. Your runs reach both independently through whatever your watch syncs to.

Does Shed compute CTL, ATL and TSB?

It models training load and freshness internally to decide what to prescribe, but it does not surface the performance management chart the way TrainingPeaks does. If reading that chart is how you like to train, TrainingPeaks is doing something Shed is not.

Is a TrainingPeaks plan the same as a coach?

No. A purchased template is a static plan delivered through the platform. It does not change when your week does, which is the same limitation a PDF has.

Compare

Shed vs TrainingPeaks

TrainingPeaks is the best place to analyse training that has already happened, and the place your coach works if you have one. What it does not do is decide what you should run on Thursday. Shed makes that decision every week, adapts it daily, and tells you why.

Head to head

Bold marks the decisive difference on that row, whichever side it falls.

	Shed	TrainingPeaks
Writes your plan	Yes, every session to your race date.	No. A coach writes it, or you buy a template, or you build it yourself.
Adapts on its own	Daily, on your runs and your recovery.	No. Adaptation is your coach, or you.
Talk to it	Yes, about any session in your plan.	No.
Total cost to be coached	$19.99 a month, all in.	About $20 a month, plus $100 to $300 for the coach who writes the plan.
Analysis depth	Splits, zones, heart rate drift, execution against what was prescribed.	Deeper. CTL, ATL, TSB, peak power and pace curves, the full history.
Sports	Running.	Everything.
Works with a human coach	Not really. Shed is the coach.	It is the standard. Your coach almost certainly uses it.

One authors, one records

TrainingPeaks is superb at telling you what happened. Its charts are the language coaches think in, and if you want to understand your own fitness curve over three years there is nothing better.

What it does not do is make the decision. That comes from a coach you are paying separately, from a plan you bought, or from you at 10pm on a Sunday looking at a chart and guessing. TrainingPeaks holds the answer, computes the consequences, and shows you the graph.

Shed is on the other side of that line. It makes the Thursday decision, every week, and then shows you why. If you already have a coach making that decision, Shed is redundant. If you do not, TrainingPeaks alone leaves you doing the hardest job yourself.

Which one you need

You are self-coached and drowning in it. Shed. The failure mode of self-coaching is not bad data, it is deciding what to do with it every week for four months.
You want someone to write the plan. Shed. TrainingPeaks assumes that job is already handled.
You have a human coach. TrainingPeaks. That is where they work.
You want to study your own numbers deeply. TrainingPeaks, and it is not close.

Frequently asked

Does TrainingPeaks write a training plan?: Not by itself. It is where a plan is delivered and analysed. The plan comes from a coach you pay separately, from a purchased template, or from you. Shed writes it.
Can I use Shed and TrainingPeaks together?: You can run both, but there is no direct integration. Shed does not write your plan into TrainingPeaks and does not read from it. Your runs reach both independently through whatever your watch syncs to.
Does Shed compute CTL, ATL and TSB?: It models training load and freshness internally to decide what to prescribe, but it does not surface the performance management chart the way TrainingPeaks does. If reading that chart is how you like to train, TrainingPeaks is doing something Shed is not.
Is a TrainingPeaks plan the same as a coach?: No. A purchased template is a static plan delivered through the platform. It does not change when your week does, which is the same limitation a PDF has.

The short version

Shed writes the block. Every session, every pace.

You give it a race and a date. It builds the weeks around the days you can actually run, reads every run off your Apple Watch the same day, and rebuilds the week when the week falls apart. $19.99 a month. The block is written and on your phone before you decide.

Get your plan on iPhone