Coaching: data overview for a group of athletes

Feature Requests
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Hello,

I’ve been using this website for a couple of years as a personal user. Coming from TrainingPeaks and Today’s Plan it seemed like a more customizable suite. Therefore I’ve been happily using it for a couple of years.

Fast forward to today and I am in a position where I am using this website to help a division of our rowing club. It brings great pleasure to work out a training plan on the site and I can analyse each athlete in great detail.

What is missing for us as (rowing) coaches is the ability to have a good overview of all our athletes in certain groups (like certain tagged athletes on intervals). It would entail a weekly overview in which a coach can look at activity data vs planned and wellness data to get a snapshot of how an athlete is doing. Neither TrainingPeaks nor Today’s Plan has the function to create such an overview. Therefore I think it could be a big advantage for Intervals to create such a feature for coaches.

So here is my idea:

Much like the overview tab you select a tag. Then you can see the athletes on a table where it brings a weekly overview, or perhaps an overview based on the range given. It would be amazing to have customizability for that table to show things such as:

  1. amount of training sessions/hours/load vs planned
  2. time in zones (hr) vs planned
  3. wellness data vs last week (hr, hrv, sleep time, weight etc.)

All in all this would create a suite in which a coach can analyse larger amounts of athletes. It can point them towards athletes that need closer attention whilst saving time for coaches by not having to look at every individual. For a head coach that would amount to nearly 40 athletes. By allowing coaches to look into all of the groups it would give him/her the chance to allocate time wisely.

I have already been thinking and somewhat trying to create such a feature with the API and Excel, but it is a bit too complex for my skillset. It seems to be a bit too much to bundle the API data of larger groups of athletes. However, if anyone knows of a way to do it; let me know ;).

I also understand it would take considerable work. But I’m also really interested to know what other people think about the idea. It could be a big selling point for certain team sports.

Sincerely,
Gilles Aarts

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Thanks. I am planning to add an “Athletes table” with columns like the activity list view that would go some way towards this requirement. It might not be possible to fit everything in though especially for multisport. Time in HR zones for swim, bike, run quickly takes up a lot of space. The new compliance tab does cover some of this.

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Is there a way to be a coach and an athlete? I will be coaching some junior cyclists but would also like to able to continue to see my data. Would I need a separate account and add me as an athlete under that account and the juniors? Please advise.

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Yes, this is how I operate. You do not need different accounts. just add the junior cyclist(s) as athletes accordingly.

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I’m the same as Olly; if you have a coach, you can add them as your coach all on the same account.

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