Getting started

1. Fill in your athlete profile first

Go to Settings → Athlete Profile and add whatever you know: FTP, threshold heart rate, threshold pace, max heart rate, weight, and your training zones.

This matters more than it looks. Every structured session is prescribed as a percentage of these values, so a session generated before you enter an FTP will be built around a guess. You can update them any time and future sessions follow.

Also set your unit preference here — distances and paces display in metric or imperial throughout.

2. Connect your training platforms

Settings → Integrations. Each connection is optional and you can disconnect at any time.

• Zwift — send structured indoor cycling workouts to your Zwift account, and pull your completed Zwift rides back in automatically. Full detail in section 4.
• Wahoo — push planned workouts to an ELEMNT head unit, and import your recorded rides.
• Apple Health (iOS app) — imports workouts, and recovery signals like resting heart rate, HRV and sleep.

No device? You can upload a .fit, .tcx or .gpx file directly, or log a session by hand. FIT and TCX files carry per-lap data and power; GPX does not.

3. Build a training plan

Open Coaching → Generate Plan. You choose:

• Length — a single day, or a 2, 4, 8 or 16-week block. Blocks of two weeks or more are periodized, with recovery weeks built in. Long blocks take a few minutes to generate.
• Sport — cycling, running, swimming, triathlon, weightlifting, bouldering, or a mix.
• Days and hours per week, and which days you want to keep as rest days. These are enforced after generation, not just requested — if you ask for Monday and Friday off, you get them off.
• Your goal, in your own words — “half marathon in 8 weeks”, “returning from injury”, “build base over winter”. This is the single biggest influence on what you get back.

Review the plan before accepting it. Once accepted, the sessions land on your calendar and you can edit, move or delete any of them.

4. Send workouts to Zwift

Connect from Settings → Integrations → Zwift → Connect. You’ll sign in with your Zwift account and approve access; Vexar never sees your Zwift password.

Sending a workout

Open any structured cycling session and press Send to Zwift. It appears in Zwift under Workouts → Custom in a folder called Vexar Training, and on your Zwift home screen on the day it’s scheduled for.

• Power-based cycling sessions only. Zwift’s workout format has no way to express a heart-rate target, so heart-rate sessions, runs and swims can’t be sent. The button only appears on sessions that can actually be delivered.
• Your Zwift FTP is used, and never changed. Workouts are written as a percentage of FTP, so Zwift applies whatever FTP is set on your Zwift profile. Vexar does not overwrite it.
• A workout is offered on its scheduled day. Send it as far ahead as you like; it appears on the day it’s planned for, in your local time.

Changing or removing a workout

• Edit it, and Zwift follows automatically. Change the session or move it to another day and the existing Zwift calendar entry is updated in place — you don’t press send again, and you don’t end up with duplicates.
• Delete it, and it leaves your Zwift calendar. The workout file itself stays in your Vexar Training folder in Zwift, so a session you liked isn’t lost.
• Sending the same workout twice does nothing. If it’s already on your calendar unchanged, Vexar tells you so rather than scheduling it again.
• Sending a different workout for the same day adds it alongside the first, rather than replacing it.

After you ride

When Zwift saves your ride, it arrives in Vexar on its own — you don’t need to sync anything. The full recording comes across: power and heart-rate traces, lap splits, normalized power, TSS and IF.

If the ride was one of the workouts Vexar sent you, the planned session is updated to show how it ended — completed, or abandoned if you stopped early. An abandoned session stays on your plan rather than being marked done.

Past Zwift rides

Sync past rides imports your Zwift history. Two limits, both Zwift’s: history goes back one year, and rides with no recorded file aren’t included. Zwift also rate-limits this, so a large history may pause and ask you to run it again — rides already imported are skipped, so it picks up where it left off.

Disconnecting

Settings → Integrations → Zwift → Disconnect. This also cancels Vexar’s access on Zwift’s side. You can equally disconnect from zwift.com → Account → Connections, and Vexar will drop the connection when Zwift tells us. Rides already imported stay in your account.

More Zwift questions — what we access, why a workout can’t be sent, a ride that didn’t arrive — are answered in the Zwift FAQ.

5. Score how you executed it

Open a completed activity that matches a planned session and press Score vs plan. The coach compares what was prescribed against what you actually did — interval by interval, using lap data where it exists — and returns a score out of 10 with specific feedback.

This is the part that makes the plan adapt. Scoring a session tells the coach whether the prescription was right for you, not just whether you finished.

6. Talk to your coach

Coaching is a conversation. It already knows your recent training, your planned sessions, your profile and your races — there’s nothing to paste in. You can also attach a specific ride to ask about it directly.

Useful things to ask: why a session is prescribed the way it is, how to adjust a week you’re travelling through, whether to push on or back off, and what a race-day pacing plan should look like.

7. Plans

• Free — 5 coach messages and 1 training plan a month, plus 3 execution scores. A week of training history in context.
• Basic, $9.99/mo — 30 messages, 2 plans, a stronger coach model, 30 days of context, unlimited execution scoring, and device export (Zwift and Wahoo push, plus .zwo download). Race pacing, race periodization and readiness coaching unlock here.
• Pro, $19.99/mo — 150 messages, 4 plans, 60 days of context.
• Elite, $49.99/mo — 400 messages, 8 plans, 90 days of context, and the most capable coach model.

Manage or change your plan in Settings → Billing.

Your data

Connected accounts are linked with your permission and can be disconnected at any time. What we collect and who we share it with is set out in the privacy policy.

Need help?

Email admin@vexartraining.com. If something went wrong with a specific session or ride, tell us the date and what you expected — that’s usually enough to track it down.