What your coach sees. And what they never do.
A coach notices an athlete is not recovering before it becomes a problem, instead of after — from watch data the athlete chose to share, category by category.
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What goes wrong without it
A community coach is responsible for forty players they see twice a week, and has no idea what any of them did in between. Who lifted. Who ran. Who is carrying a hamstring and has not mentioned it. Who has quietly not trained in three weeks.
Every decision they make about load is a guess, and the first they hear about a problem is when someone pulls up in the warm-up.
The tools that claim to fix this mostly do not. An athlete app that stores a tick can tell a coach a session was “completed”. It cannot tell them the athlete did it at half the prescribed intensity.
What the app actually does
Two streams feed the console, and both are the athlete’s to grant.
The watch. With explicit consent, sleep, heart-rate variability, resting heart rate, session heart rate, workouts and daily activity leave the phone and become recovery and training trends the coach can see. That is how a coach spots an athlete who is not responding to a block in week two rather than week six.
The program itself. Because the app prescribes the session — sets, reps and a weight — it also knows what was supposed to happen. Logged load, reps and RPE sit alongside the plan, so the console can compute the gap between the two.
Those combine into six signals, each of which exists only to produce a flag that says what to do about it:
The parts that matter
- Compliance
- Did the prescribed work actually happen — as a fraction of the sessions the block asked for, not a vague activity count.
- Divergence — prescribed vs actual
- The one most tools cannot compute. A tick says a session was done; divergence says whether it was done at the intensity the block asked for, by comparing logged load, reps and RPE against the prescription.
- Training load
- Acute load against the athlete’s own four-week chronic load, flagged when it spikes — the pattern the IOC consensus statement associates with raised injury risk.
- Readiness trend
- The direction of an athlete’s recovery over days, not one bad morning. Built from sleep and HRV against their own baseline.
- Pain and soreness
- The direction of travel in the rehab check-ins, and where an athlete reported soreness after an unusually hard session.
- Dark days
- Days since the last logged session. The break killer, and the one that is invisible without this.
Is this you?
Club strength and conditioning staff, head coaches carrying the S&C job as well, and personal trainers who want to know what happened between sessions.
Coach visibility — questions
What health data can a coach see?
Can a coach see health data the athlete has not shared?
Is consent all-or-nothing?
What can team-mates see?
What happens if an athlete revokes consent?
Does every staff member with a login see health data?
Related
The club console
Squads, blocks, the Monday board and testing days — from A$119.99 a month for the whole squad.
OpenRecovery & readiness
Where the watch data comes from, and how it changes the athlete’s own session.
OpenTraining load explained
What the acute:chronic ratio can and cannot tell you.
OpenStart training properly
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