Weekly review

The weekly review is a short note that lands with your athlete on Monday morning, in their own time zone. It reads like a coach’s check-in: how last week actually went against the plan, what the coming week asks of them, and one thing worth their attention.

What’s in it

The review opens with the week’s headline numbers: sessions completed against planned, training load, hours, where fitness finished and how far it moved, and how much of the planned load the week actually did.

Under that, three short sections, each with the week it describes laid out day by day:

• Last week. Training load done versus planned, which sessions were completed, missed, or added, what drove any big difference, how fitness moved, and how resting heart rate compares to the athlete’s recent baseline. The calendar beside it shows every day of the week: what was on the plan, what was done, and how the two compared.
• The week ahead. What the plan asks for, the one or two sessions that matter most, and where fitness is projected to land if the week is completed as written. Its calendar shows the coming week’s schedule, with the key sessions and the one worth protecting marked. The review describes the plan as it stands: it never tells the athlete to cut, add to, or reschedule it, so changing the plan stays your call as their coach.
• One focus point. A single structural observation — for example, intensity running ahead of what the plan intended while endurance volume falls behind — ending in something concrete to do about it. The action is always about how the athlete rides the coming week, not about rewriting it.

Every number in the review comes from data already on the platform: the athlete’s weekly totals, their completed and planned workouts, their fitness trend, their resting heart rate, and next week’s schedule. The AI writes the words; it never invents a figure or overrules the analysis. Where a figure has no data behind it, the review shows a dash rather than a zero.

The email ends with a reminder to the athlete that the review is not medical advice, and that any changes to their plan should be discussed with you.

The athlete’s email, the athlete’s own page, and your view of the same week all show the identical report — you always see exactly what they were sent.

Turning it on

Open the athlete from Managing athletes, then switch on Weekly review in their settings. You can also turn it on while activating an athlete — the activation dialog asks for it alongside the plan type and feedback approval. From that point on, the first review is for the week that closes next — enabling mid-week never sends a review for a week that has already ended.

The review is written for an athlete steering their own training, so it is only available to athletes on an off-the-shelf plan. The switch stays off, with a note saying why, for an athlete on a custom plan or with no plan type yet — change their plan type first and it becomes available. It works best paired with auto-approve, where nothing waits for you week to week, but that pairing is a recommendation rather than a requirement: an off-the-shelf athlete on coach review can be enrolled, and their review goes out every week without an approval step.

If you later move an enrolled athlete to a custom plan, their enrolment is kept but paused: no review is sent while they are off the shelf, and their settings say so. Move them back to an off-the-shelf plan and reviews resume with the next week that closes — the weeks in between are never sent after the fact. You can switch the weekly review off for a paused athlete at any time.

Switching it off stops future reviews immediately. Reviews already generated stay where they are, and you can still read them.

When it arrives

Reviews are prepared once a week, after the athlete’s Sunday ends in their own time zone, so an athlete in Auckland and one in Lisbon each get theirs on their own Monday morning. If some of the week’s analysis is still being processed, the review waits a little for it rather than going out thin.

Some weeks won’t produce a review at all — if the athlete recorded nothing and had nothing planned, there is nothing to write about, and their portal says so plainly instead of showing an empty note.

What athletes see

Enrolled athletes get a Weekly review card on their dashboard with the latest week’s note, plus an email with the same three paragraphs and a link back to the portal. They can give each review a thumbs up or thumbs down — that rating is visible to you, so you can tell quickly whether the notes are landing.

Athletes who would rather not get the email can switch it off under notification preferences in their settings; the review still appears in their portal.

Things worth knowing

• Fitness projections are estimates. The projected figure assumes the coming week is completed as written, and the review says so.
• New athletes get a lighter review. Fitness numbers need several weeks of history before they mean much, so the review leaves the projection out until then.
• Resting heart rate is only mentioned when it’s available, and it’s treated as a signal to watch, never a diagnosis.
• Non-cycling weeks still get a review — the sections that depend on cycling-specific analysis are simply left out rather than filled with guesses.