Heat Training is More Than “60 Min Z2”: How to Effortlessly Integrate Complex Protocols in AZUM

Heat training is a protocol. Not just another session in the calendar.

As a high-performance coach, you know the difference: simply prescribing “60 min Z2 – Heat Training” is not enough. The physiological stimulus depends on how the session is executed.

Your athlete needs to know exactly: how to create the heat stimulus, how to manage intensity, what to monitor during the session (heart rate response, RPE, thermal strain), and when to modify or stop the session.

This exposes one of the limitations of conventional training platforms: they are very good at scheduling training. But high-level coaching requires more than scheduling. That essential execution knowledge often disappears into WhatsApp messages, separate PDFs, or long emails.

This is where AZUM is different. We call this the Coaching Layer—the coaching guidance travels directly with the workout.

The Coaching Layer: Why the “How” Matters

A structured workout can tell an athlete the What:

• 60 minutes
• Zone 2
• Power target

But as a coach, you still need to prescribe the How:

• Heat exposure protocol
• Environment and setup
• Cooling strategy
• Hydration and fueling

That knowledge shouldn’t be in a separate document. It belongs with the workout.

Create Once, Use Individually for All Athletes

In AZUM, you don’t have to build these complex sessions with specific instructions from scratch every time. You build a template once, save it, and can reuse it at any time—across all your athletes!

The big advantage: You don’t have to worry about individual zones. Once you assign the template to an athlete, the performance data (like watts, pace, or heart rate) automatically adjusts to the specific metabolic profile of that athlete.

Practical Example: Setting Up a Heat Training Protocol in AZUM

Let’s look at how easily heat training can be mapped out as a template in AZUM. Instead of just typing blocks of text, you create specific exercises corresponding to the different phases of the heat training.

A perfect setup in AZUM looks like this, for example:

1. The Checklist: The first “exercise” of the session is a checklist consolidating all essential heat training information (safety precautions, required setup, hydration strategy).
2. The Heating Phase: A detailed description of how the athlete safely raises their core temperature.
3. The Isothermal Phase: The actual working phase where the temperature is maintained.
4. The Cool-Down: Clear instructions for active and passive cooling.

The best part: You can easily add detailed descriptions, as well as videos or pictures, to each of these phases and exercises. The next time you schedule heat training for an athlete, you simply drag and drop the template into the calendar. In no time at all, the specific training is created with all the necessary information.

Detail Isn’t Complexity – It’s Part of the Prescription

This approach saves you an immense amount of time as a coach. The constant, repetitive explaining of the execution is eliminated because all important information is already bundled, visually supported, and attached directly to the workout.

AZUM wasn’t built simply to put workouts into a calendar. It is built to translate coaching knowledge into athlete execution. Your athletes shouldn’t have to interpret what you meant. They should open their training and know exactly how you want it executed.

See what high-performance training planning looks like in AZUM.

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