Our native Suunto integration is now live!

This will be in two parts, the first is to for athletes to be able to connect their device and automatically sync workouts to their account. This is live now.

The second part will allow Suunto users to send planned structured workouts so they can complete them on their device while being guided interactively. Suunto refer to this feature as "Guides" and is similar to our existing feature for Garmin users. This feature will be coming soon.

Coming Soon

We are also getting close to completing our Wahoo integration, again this will be in two stages, first syncing completed data, and then sending structured workouts to devices.

Coros is also underway with the same approach. Zwift is still on the plan, but we are still waiting on Zwift to set up things on their end for us. That's a work in progress.

You and your athletes can now share completed activities publicly with a link. The shared activity will display your logo and link back to your website (configure your website in settings if it's different from Training Tilt).

You can find the sharing tool in the new analytics view of any completed activity. It's perfect for showcasing your coaching expertise—talk through a workout on social media and share the link for others to see. Athletes can also share their workouts with their own networks.

To share, just click the lock or share icon to make it public, then copy the link.

Once you share the link it will show a read only view of the activity and anyone with the link will be able to view the workout, and zoom the charts.

We are planning on adding a few more charts to the performance dashboard, but before we do that we wanted to ensure the dashboard is configurable to ensure it doesn't become cluttered with charts that aren't relevant to all coaches or athletes.

Coaches and clients can now choose which charts they want to display on the performance dashboard.

Coaches can configure their own preferred charts and they can also set a default for all clients.

Clients will inherit the default setting unless they configure their own settings.

To access to the chart configuration, click the cog icon on the performance dashboard.

Select the charts you want to display.

Drag and drop a chart to change the order

Use the save button to save your own settings. Coaches can use the "Make Client Default" button to save this as the default setting for all clients in the system. You can also reset your own settings or the client settings back to defaults.

New group coaching feature enhancement!

With our group coaching feature you can now make changes to the centralized group training plan and then sync changes using a specific "from date".

How is this useful? For example if you are only giving your coaching group two weeks of training in advance prior to this feature if you wanted to allow your athletes to customize their own workouts you would then need to wait till Sunday night to sync the next two weeks otherwise you would overwrite their customizations with the sync.

Not ideal to have to do this at the same time every week, especially on a Sunday!

Now you can do the sync at any time by choosing a specific sync from date.

As we start to phase in our new workout planned and analysis views we will start making them more prominent and easier to use.

The first part of this is enabling a coach or athlete to open them in a new tab so they can easily compare to the planned workout or just have the calendar and the workout view open at the same time.

You can access the new way to analyze a completed or view a planned workout in two different places. The first is the calendar item menu, and then also within an open workout.

From an Open Workout

From the calendar item menu

The workout will then open inside a new tab in your browser. You can also switch between analyze and planned view from the new window using the "Analyze" or "View Planned" buttons.

Our AI Coaching Assistant can now help coaches by suggesting comments to add to completed activities or help with replies to your clients.

The goal of the assistant in this case is not to automate comments to your clients but rather a way to speed up the process and save you from having to type all of what you wanted to say.

The assistant is aware of the clients details including their training zones and some other specific information about their training. This enables the assistant to be more accurate when suggesting comments for you to use.

You can and should also give the assistant specific instructions and some example comments to ensure that the suggestions are in line with your tone, your coaching principles and any specific way of structuring feedback. The more detailed instructions and examples you configure more the suggestions will align with your own style of feedback.

IMPORTANT: If you don't customize the instructions the suggestions just won't be very good. The best way to get the best results is to add instructions and examples and then run the suggestions and see what comes out. Each round of testing you can add to the instructions explaining what you don't like and hopefully each iteration will get closer and closer to what you would have written anyway. It's worth the extra time and effort to train the assistant properly.

The assistant is currently only available in the web version of the platform in the new activity insights view.

There are more details on how to get to the new screens here 

When you add a new comment, you will see a new "Suggest" button with a drop down with additional options.

Improve Action

The simplest new feature is a way to improve the grammar, spelling or structure of a comment. This is great as you don't need to have perfect grammar or spelling or spend time editing potential mistakes, just type your comment and then use the "Improve" option to improve the content.

Before Improving

After Improving

Suggested Comments

The assistant is aware of previous comments in the message thread so will suggest replies related to any specific questions your clients may have asked or address any specific feedback they have given. It will also give feedback based on the planned and completed data in the activity based on the clients training zone data.

It is recommended that you create your own custom instructions and examples for the assistant to use to match your tone, principles and structure. But first it is a good approach to use the generate button to see what responses the assistant gives without any customization. That should give you a starting place to build your custom instructions and examples from.

Use the "Generate" button for generate some suggestions. Don't worry the assistant will never comment for you, it will just provide suggestions and you will need to click "Save" to actually send them to your clients.

Customize Suggestions

Initially you will notice that the comments are a little generic and lacking personality, this is where it is worth the effort to give the assistant some custom instructions and examples. You can do that from the "Customize" item from the Suggest button.

General Instructions

You will then be able to add some general instructions on how you want the assistant to respond, what details to include, and what tone to use etc. The more context you give the better, less generic results you will get. You might need to iterate through these instructions and examples a few times before you get the results you are happy with.

To add some examples for the assistant to use, click the Add Example button. You can add as many examples as you like. It's a good idea to copy and paste some real examples from previous feedback you have given as real data will be the most effective. For each example you can add some specific instructions about the example and when might be a good situation to use it.

Adding Examples

You can add multiple examples. Start by clicking the add example button.

You should include some specific instructions for each example explaining the context of the example, why and when to use them. Make sure you hit the save button after adding your examples and instructions.

After adding an example, ask the assistant to generate the suggestions again and you should see a much more specific suggestion that matches more closely your example. Some extra time spent iterating and experimenting here should get some really good results.

We've just pushed a new beta feature live. It's a new "View" mode of planned workouts in calendar mode on the web version of the platform.

Currently when a coach or an athlete opens a workout it shows the editable view. This is good while you a planning workouts but not that good if you just want to see the details of the workout without needing to edit it. It should make it clearer for athletes and coaches what has actually been prescribed without needing to click through the tabs.

The new screen is not the default view and you need to select it from the context workout menu, but once we iron out any issues it will be come the new default view when you click on a planned workout. Please test it out and let us know any feedback so we can make any changes or suggestions before it becomes the default view.

You can open it from the context menu on a workout here (and don't forget about the new analysis view for completed workouts we launched a while back too)

You can also access the new view inside the current workout view.

You can see from the screenshot below of an example workout you can see everything you need to know about the workout in a single screen, including the description, structured workout, downloadable files.

Some Details

Downloadable workout files are now inside a new toolbar alongside an "Analyze" button to switch to the Analyze view of a completed workout.

Switch to Analyze

Download Workout Files

Hey! Sorry to say that Strava had some major issues yesterday which resulted in some downtime and problems with our sync service.

It looks like this might have resulted in some athletes being disconnected from Strava.

If you aren't seeing your athlete data coming through from Strava or your athletes mention it to you, they may just need to reconnect their Strava account to get up and running again.

Apologies for any inconvenience here!

Here is the guide to share with your athletes if they need to reconnect their account.

 http://support.trainingtilt.com/en/articles/372356-how-to-sync-with-your-strava-account 

Once reconnected your or they can manually sync up any completed workouts that were missed. The guide for that is included at the bottom of the same article.

In our new activity analysis view you can now select a lap which will automatically zoom the timeline charts for power, pace, heart rate etc.

When you want to reset the zoom click the refresh icon.

In our new workout builder pace will now show as minutes per 100 m by default instead of the mins per km or mile that was previously used.

This was always difficult for coaches to prescribe swim pacing.

Also when setting up an athletes zones the pace will also show as minutes per 100m. We've chosen not to use yards here because although the US is not using the metric system, many pools and official races are measured in meters.

You can still force a workout to use yards if you would prefer, but zones setup will always be in meters for the Swimming workout type.

Zones