Apply a change from chat
Ask for something and your coach proposes it rather than doing it. Nothing reaches your plan until you tap Confirm.
How it goes
Ask for what you want
In your own words. Move Thursday to Friday, make this week easier, add a swim on Sunday, rebuild the whole thing. A suggestion chip sends a full question for you.
Read the card
A card appears headed COACH RECOMMENDS. Under it is the day and session it will change, such as Sat 3 Oct · Baseline Press, then one line saying exactly what it will do, and two buttons. Check the day is the one you meant. Ask for two changes and you get a card for each.
If what your coach wrote does not match that session’s day, or the card would quietly change a different day from the one you asked about, you get a question instead of a card, so the wrong session is never one tap away. Ask to shorten a day that only has your own sport on it and your coach says that session is yours, then offers to change its nearest one, naming the day.
Confirm or dismiss
Confirm applies it. A rebuild takes a few minutes and tells you what it is doing as it goes. If your phone locks part way, the card says the rebuild started and your plan shows how far it got, with no second Confirm to pay for it twice. Dismiss leaves your plan alone and the card says so, so you can see later what you decided.
Check your agenda
A green tick replaces the buttons, naming what happened. Your plan is already refreshed by then, so the change is on your agenda when you look.
When a card says DOUBLE-CHECKING
Occasionally a proposed change does not pass the automatic safety check. The card header changes to DOUBLE-CHECKING, there is no Confirm button, and your coach explains why in its own words.
A person then looks at it. Your coach writes back to you either way, telling you it has been added or that it decided against it and offering to explain. You do not need to chase it, and asking again will not speed it up.
What it will not change
A session you have already done or skipped cannot be moved, reprogrammed or deleted from chat. It is a record of what happened, and rewriting it would make your history a fiction. Your coach says which it is, done or skipped. Asking to skip one you already skipped is fine: nothing changes.
Goals, injuries, sports and races have their own screens, so your coach sends you there with a link rather than guessing at the details.
Common questions
- Nothing happened until I tapped Confirm.
- That is how it works. Your coach never changes your plan from a message alone. It shows you exactly what it proposes and waits.
- The card has no Confirm button.
- It says DOUBLE-CHECKING at the top. That change did not pass the automatic safety check, so a person looks at it before it reaches your plan. Your coach messages you either way, so you do not need to ask again.
- I dismissed a card by mistake.
- Ask again in the same conversation. Your coach will propose it afresh.
- Why did my chat start empty afterwards?
- A conversation is finished once a change in it has been applied and no other card in it is still waiting for you, so the next time you open the chat you get a clean one. The old conversation is still in your history.
- It said it could not apply the change.
- Read the message carefully, because it adds that the change may already have gone through. Check your agenda before asking for it again.
- My coach asked which day I meant.
- The day it named, or the day you asked about, did not match the session the change would touch, so it checked rather than change the wrong one. Tell it the day and it will set the change up again.
- It said it couldn't package that change.
- Your coach has already tried once more by itself before saying so. Ask again, in other words if you like, and it will set the change up.
Still stuck
Open the app, go to You, and tap the feedback row at the bottom. It reaches a person, not a queue. Or write to hello@smashcoach.app.