PURPLE PATCH OFF-SEASON TRAINING · KICKS OFF SEPTEMBER (OR AFTER YOUR LAST RACE)
Join Tri Squad’s 2027 Off-Season Training - Build the foundation for your best season yet — from the team behind 2,000+ World Championship qualifiers.
Purple Patch Fitness Founder & Head Coach Matt Dixon on why the off-season decides your season
The off-season isn't about piling on easy miles or simply maintaining fitness. It's the chance to work on the things that are harder to build when race preparation takes over — strength, power, durability, technique and craft.
We deliberately reduce the physical and mental load, creating room for holidays, travel, family, and the things outside triathlon that fill you up. You keep training and progressing — without feeling like you're in race preparation all year.
The off-season isn't the tail end of this season. It's the foundation of the next one. What you build now gives you more capacity to absorb — and benefit from — the endurance and race-specific work that comes later.
Our athletes say it best:
"This was the first time I committed to consistent off-season training, including heavy lifting, and resulted in a 1min+ per mile improvement in my run and a huge PR in my 70.3. Despite training less, I was able to pack a lot more power into my legs over the winter while having a ton of fun, especially in the weekend live rides."
"I really enjoyed the off-season. And despite not intending to chase personal bests, I did still set new PRs in each race I entered, which was a bit of a surprise as it didn't feel like I'd done anything "hard enough" for those results!"
"It felt simple, but I progressed in terms of performance in all three sports, set my highest FTP, PR'd twice in half marathons and had my best 1K swim test ever. All that in winter while having no pressure with what didn't seem like serious training."
"I needed the mental break, and off-season training with Purple Patch provided it. I was amazed at how much stronger I felt when I started the more difficult sessions in the early spring."
Coach Max walks through a real off-season week — the plan, the sessions, the strength work, and how it all fits together.
Not sure it's right for you?
Talk to a coach firstSeptember 28th through February 15th
Flexible around holidays and travel
Delivered in TrainingPeaks, with coach support
Start with a coaching call to map your block and pick your focus
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Not sure it's right for you?
Talk to a coach firstAbsolutely. Athletes can enter the off-season anytime from September 28th onward. We can even help you integrate a late season race into your off-season training. If you want to finish your season and then get our help, just leave your email and last race date below, and we’ll be in touch when your season wraps.
6–9 hours a week for most athletes.
Built to be flexible around your schedule, training preferences and goals.
Room for life — holidays, travel and everything outside of training.
The goal: keep progressing while creating the space to finish refreshed and ready to charge into the new season
We get it. That’s why we’ve worked hard to make indoor riding one of the most engaging parts of the off-season.
Your weekday rides come to life on Velocity, our interactive video-coaching platform. The training structure and coaching keep you engaged and motivated even on cold, dark mornings. Every weekday ride is video-coached, with the option to join a live interactive session.
Sessions are short, purposeful, and varied — terrain work, skills, and high-value efforts instead of endless trainer miles. We promise, boredom won’t have time to set in.
Once a month, ride with the Purple Patch community from around the world — a dynamic, fun Saturday session that brings everyone together.
And we want you outside, too. Gravel, mountain biking, and other soul-filling rides all have a place in your program.
Athletes regularly tell us that the trainer rides are their favorite parts of off-season training.
Not at all. Many athletes come to us new to structured strength training — or having struggled to stay consistent with it.
Every session is fully video-guided in TrainingPeaks, so you’re never left guessing about a movement or what to do next.
Two sessions a week, typically 30–40 minutes each, with the option to add 1–2 more if strength is a focus for your off-season.
We help you stay on track. The structure, guidance and coaching make it easier to build strength into your routine — and actually stick with it.
No perfect gym setup required. We make it easy to follow the program across a range of equipment and gym-access options.
It’s one of the biggest fears athletes have about the off-season. But you’re not stopping training — you’re training differently.
Less volume. More purpose. We reduce overall hours while keeping purposeful intensity that protects your top end.
Build what’s harder to build in-season. Strength, durability, technique and craft become a bigger focus when race preparation isn't dominating your training.
You’re building the platform for what comes next. Any slight dip in aerobic sharpness comes back quickly. When you layer endurance and race-specific work onto a stronger foundation, that’s when you can unlock bigger gains in speed and power.
The athletes who lose fitness are the ones who stop training — not the ones who train differently.
You’ll get everything you need to get started immediately:
Get your training plan. You’ll immediately receive a welcome email with simple instructions to set up your TrainingPeaks Premium account and access your training.
Meet 1:1 with a coach. Book your off-season onboarding call for your first week to dial in your plan, goals, and focus areas.
Join the Purple Patch Hub. Get connected with your coaches, teammates and the broader Purple Patch community for support throughout the off-season.
