Create or Update Training Plan

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This skill creates or updates personalized training plans by first gathering user information (new users) or confirming needs (existing users). It builds programs with structured components like progression schemes and deload protocols, then saves to program.md and updates the user profile.

Sby Skills Guide Bot
ProductivityIntermediate
306/2/2026
Claude Code
#training-plan#fitness#workout-program#personal-coaching

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Our review

Creates or updates a personalized training plan based on the user's profile and goals.

Strengths

  • Interactive dialogue to gather needs and adjust the program
  • Generates structured plans with progression, cycles, and deload
  • Adapts to experience level (beginner, intermediate, advanced) with periodization principles

Limitations

  • Requires prior user context stored in a profile file
  • For complex programs, relies on an external agent (program-builder)
  • Limited to written plan creation, not real-time tracking
When to use it

Use this skill when you need to design or modify a structured, personalized workout program.

When not to use it

Avoid using it if you only need a single workout session or exercise without weekly planning.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score88/100

The skill only uses safe tools (Read, Write, Edit, WebSearch, Task) and does not instruct any destructive or exfiltrating actions. Shell command references are not directly executable due to tool restrictions.

No concerns found

Examples

Create a new beginner program
I want to start working out. Can you create a simple beginner training program for me? I have dumbbells and a bench at home.
Update existing program
I've been doing the plan you wrote for 8 weeks and I'd like to move to an intermediate phase. Can you update my program?
Change goals
I want to switch from strength training to hypertrophy. Modify my current program accordingly.

name: plan description: Create or update the training plan. Use when user wants a new program or to modify their current one. allowed-tools:

  • Read
  • Write
  • Edit
  • WebSearch
  • Task

Create or Update Training Plan

Current Context

  • Existing plan: !head -20 program.md 2>/dev/null || echo "No plan exists yet"
  • User profile: !cat user-profile.md 2>/dev/null | head -30

Instructions

For New Users (no profile yet)

If user-profile.md is mostly empty, have a conversation first:

Let's build something that actually fits your life. Tell me a bit about yourself — what's your training background, what are you working with equipment-wise, and what are you hoping to achieve?

Learn about them naturally, then update user-profile.md before building the program.

For Existing Users

If you already know them, confirm what they want:

  • New program from scratch?
  • Modify current program?
  • Change goals or schedule?

Building the Program

For complex programs (periodized, skill-focused, or intermediate+), use the program-builder agent — it understands mesocycles, progression models, and evidence-based programming.

For simple programs (beginner linear progression), you can build directly.

The Program Should Include

  1. Overview — Goals, duration, days/week, session length
  2. Weekly structure — What happens each day
  3. Progression scheme — Exactly how to advance
  4. Mesocycle plan — Phases and their purpose
  5. Workout templates — Detailed exercises for each day
  6. Deload protocol — When and how to back off
  7. Benchmarks — How to measure progress

After Building

  1. Write the complete program to program.md
  2. Update user-profile.md with any new info learned
  3. Explain the program briefly — why it fits them
  4. Tell them to run /workout when they're ready to start

Program Design Principles

  • Simple > Complex — Earn complexity through consistency
  • Sustainable > Optimal — They need to actually do it
  • Adaptable — Life happens, programs should flex
  • Match periodization to experience:
    • Beginner: Linear progression
    • Intermediate: Undulating or simple block periodization
    • Advanced: Block periodization, specialized phases
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