How Training works

Team

Everything belongs to a team: its coaches, its athletes, its weeks and the training logged against them. You start a team at weights.page with your email. You're its admin, so you add people, publish weeks and change the team's settings. One email can coach up to three teams and switch between them in the portal.

Coaches and athletes

Nobody joins a team on their own. You add each person, and each gets an invite that works once.

• An athlete gets a link and a six-digit code. Opening the link on their iPhone opens Training straight into joining; the code works too, typed into the app. Athletes never need an email or a password.
• A coach is added by email. They sign in at coach.weights.page with that email and a code we mail them, on the web or in the app. Any coach can be allowed to plan the team: write and publish weeks.

Invites last 14 days. A new invite ends the old one, and once someone has joined, their row says Joined. Training is on the App Store by link only, so the invite carries the link to the app.

Columns

A week is a grid. Its columns are the headings you'd write across the top of your sheet: one per group that trains differently (Sprints, Hurdles, Jumps, Throws), or one per athlete. An athlete's column is what they do: each athlete picks theirs in the app, and when you add an athlete you can put them in one.

Groups

A group is a saved set of athletes, like "Sprints" or "Short hurdles", that a column can point at. When a column has a group's name, that week's sessions under it go to the group's athletes. Groups save picking the same athletes every week; change a group once and every week after follows.

The week

The week is days down the side and columns across the top. Each cell names the sessions for that day and column, like Speed A or Lift 2, the way you'd write it on paper. Each day can have a location. You can start a week from last week's and change what's different.

Definitions

A session's name is defined once, under the week, the way you'd write it: 4x4 cleans (from box), 3x150m @ 90% (5' rest), Hurdle mobility. Training reads each line as you type and shows what the athlete will get: exercises, sets, reps, loads and runs. When it reads something differently from what you meant, you fix the line or pick the reading.

Publishing

Nothing reaches athletes until you publish. When you do, every athlete gets the week on their phone at once, with only the sessions for their columns. If you change the week after publishing, the portal shows what changed, and publishing again sends the changes. Workouts athletes have already started are left alone unless you choose to update them too.

On the phone

Your athletes open Today and see the day's sessions, already read. In a workout they tick every set as they go, with last time's weight filled in and their records kept. Runs take times; lifts take loads, in kilograms or pounds. Everything they log stays on their phone and, because they're on your team, comes to you when they finish.

Live

While your team trains, Live shows who has started, what they've done and what's next, set by set, as it happens. From the app you can time an athlete's rep with one big Start and Stop, and the time goes onto that rep on their phone.

Ask

Ask answers questions about your team's training in plain words: "Who missed sessions this week?", "How has Maya's squat moved since September?". It reads what the portal already holds for you (the weeks, the workouts and sets your athletes logged, absences and meets) and points you to the page it's talking about. Each Sunday it also writes a short summary of the week. Athletes' notes are only read when the athlete has allowed it.

Privacy

You see what your athletes share with the team: their finished workouts, the day's workout while it's under way, their absences and their competition results. Their notes come to you only if they turn on Share notes; goals only with Share goals. Everything else stays on their phone. An athlete can stop sharing at any time from the app, and what they shared is deleted from the team. The privacy policy says exactly what goes where.