Use Labs in your coaching week
Three practical coaching routines for daily readiness, weekly training review, and an end-of-block athlete conversation.
Build a repeatable review around the decision you need to make. If you have not set up a board yet, follow Your first Labs analysis first.
Before training: who needs a conversation?
Use Reports → Comparison with the Readiness board preset, then inspect the athlete rather than treating a colored cell as an instruction.
- In Setup, choose Date and the squad you are coaching today.
- Under Presets, apply Readiness board (wellness, effort, jump, resting heart rate, sleep, and weight).
- Scan each athlete’s row for values that stand out, and open their Profile to compare them with their own history.
- Check relevant wellness answers, injury reports, or recorded sessions.
- Speak with the athlete and decide whether today’s plan needs a change.
An empty cell means no value was recorded, not readiness. A value that stands out is a reason to investigate, not a diagnosis. See Wellness, sleep, and wearables for the metrics you can add. Use Coach Live for in-progress supervision.
Useful outcome: a short list of athletes to speak with, each with a concrete reason and supporting data.
After the training week: did we deliver the intended work?
Use Reports → Trend for changes over time, then Comparison for a multi-metric snapshot.
- Select a consistent squad and a window containing several relevant periods.
- Choose one metric that answers your question: weekly tonnage for delivered load, velocity loss for set fatigue, or the same exercise’s estimated 1RM for performance context.
- Verify the metric’s calculation and exercise. Keep filters consistent across reviews.
- Inspect the period values and Growth, then open History for outliers or gaps.
- If useful, compare this with wellness or a second performance metric on Comparison.
The date window determines whether Trend buckets by day, week, or month. Its changes compare measured periods; a gap is not automatically a drop. If the period granularity changes between reviews, revisit the window before comparing the charts.
Do not infer that a training change caused an improvement just because the two moved together. Relationship helps explore associations, while the source sessions and coaching context remain important.
Useful outcome: a documented observation about delivered work and response, with the same scope and calculation available for the next review.
End of a block: explain one athlete’s progress
Use Profiles to keep the conversation centered on the individual.
- Choose the athlete and the training-block window.
- On Overview, select the qualities that mattered in the block. Replace irrelevant preset exercises.
- Use Trends to see whether the change was sustained across measured periods.
- Use Records to identify new bests within the chosen window. Its first period establishes the starting mark; “new best” is window-relative, not automatically an all-time personal record.
- Use Ranks only when comparison with a deliberate group is relevant. Only measured athletes are ranked.
- Open the matching modality’s Insights to investigate lifting, jump, sprint, or reaction details.
If you use Benchmarks, explain that its percentiles come from the selected squad and date window, not a population standard. Changing the selection changes the reference. For an athlete conversation, keep that reference visible and consistent.
Useful outcome: a small set of understandable changes, the measurements supporting them, and a clear focus for the next block.
Keep a repeatable review workspace
Create a private Dashboard for your recurring review. Give widgets descriptive titles, use a deliberate shared scope, and check autosave before leaving. Other coaches do not automatically receive your dashboard.
Use Scoresheet when entering squad measurements by hand. It writes measurement records; the report boards analyze them. Check the date, units, athlete, and metric before saving a testing-day batch.
When the answer is “not enough data”
Check the recording and upload first, then the organization, scope, exercise, calculation, and filters. Expand the date window only if it still answers the question. See Labs troubleshooting rather than replacing missing cells with zero.
Get your first useful answer from Labs
A guided first visit: choose a coaching question, scope a board, check its calculation, and verify the result against recorded work.
Configura una board di Labs
Usa Configurazione per scegliere l’intervallo di date, la squadra, gli atleti, i filtri sugli atleti e le metriche, salvare e gestire i preset, aggiornare, esportare o interrogare l’Assistente.