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Read a workout

Tap any day in Home or Agenda to open the session. Everything you need before you start is on that one screen, in the order you need it.

The top of the screen

The header names the day rather than the date, so it reads Today, Tomorrow or Yesterday where that is clearer, with the date on the right.

Under it sits the session title, the part of your training it serves, and a line giving the estimated time and the number of exercises. That estimate is added up from the exercises themselves, so it moves if you edit the session. A move done on each side, like a stretch held 40 seconds a side, counts both sides.

The INTENSITY row underneath is the effort the session is written for, shown as a word on a colour scale. It is a plan for how hard this should feel, not a measurement of how hard it was.

A workout screen in Smash Coach showing the title Lower Body Strength, the estimated time and exercise count, an intensity reading of hard, and a start button
One day, one screen.

The row of actions

Under the start button is a row of chips. Which ones appear depends on the session.

  • Mark done opens the check-in. It appears on today and on past days, never on a future one.
  • Reschedule moves the session to another day.
  • Duplicate makes a copy on a day you pick.
  • Skip marks it skipped and asks why, so your coach knows. The rest of your week stays as it was.
  • Edit opens the session editor, where you change the exercises themselves. An exercise done on each side keeps that through an edit, and the editor says so under its amount (10 reps per side). Rename it and the new exercise decides for itself.
  • Share makes a picture of a finished session to post or send. On a session not done yet it tells you it can be shared once it is.
  • Delete removes it from the plan for good.

Once a session is done the row changes: Share moves to the front, and Mark as undone replaces the ones that no longer apply. A skipped session offers Unskip, which puts it straight back without asking, and Log as done.

What your coach says about it

The gold card under the chips is your coach talking about this particular session. Tap WHY THIS DESIGN to open the reasoning behind it, and the assumption it made if it had to make one. The label flips to HIDE REASONING while it is open.

The exercises

  1. Scan the list

    Each row carries a sketch, the kind of block on the left, the target on the right, the exercise name, and a short cue under it. Rest rows sit in the list as their own entries, so the time between sets is part of the session rather than something you guess.

    A move done one side at a time keeps one row, with per side after its target, as in 0:40 per side: do that much on the left and the same again on the right. Workout mode runs it as a left step and then a right step.

  2. Tap a row for the full explanation

    The sheet gives the rounds and the target on one line, the sketch at full width, and a written description of how to do the movement. Pinch the sketch with two fingers to zoom in. Tap GOT IT to close.

    The exercise detail sheet for a goblet squat, showing the target, a labelled AI sketch of the movement and the start of the written description
    The same sheet opens from workout mode.

What it is for

Below the list, CONTRIBUTES TO shows the goals this session serves, or your next event if it serves the race directly. TRAINING EFFECT breaks the session into endurance, strength, balance and mobility, so you can see what a session is actually buying you.

Both disappear once a session is done, and stats and splits take their place. That is covered on the page about marking a workout done.

Days with nothing on them

A future day with no session reads Recovery is training. Let the week's work land. That is deliberate, not a gap. You can still add a session to it.

In a week that came back with fewer coach sessions than you asked for, an empty day ahead reads Not planned yet instead, on Home too: that one is a gap, and your coach is looking at it.

A past day with nothing reads Nothing was scheduled or logged on this day. If you trained, you can still add it. The button under it logs a session on that date.

Common questions

Why does the day say Rest when I wanted to train?
Rest is the absence of a session rather than a session called rest. Your coach fills the number of sessions you asked for and leaves the other days alone. If you want to train anyway, add your own session from the plus button, and it becomes yours.
What does the number before each exercise mean?
It is the position of that kind of block in the session. Exercise 1 and Exercise 2 are the first and second working exercises, and Warm-Up and Cool Down are labelled as such. A bar down the side with a multiplier such as three times marks steps you repeat. A bar holding one exercise and its rest is straight sets: do all of its sets, then move on to the next exercise. A bar holding two or more exercises is a superset or circuit: one round of each in turn, then the next round.
There are several sessions on one day. Where are the others?
A strip of tabs appears under the header, one per session, each showing its sport. Tap a tab to switch. This happens when one of your own sports lands on the same day as a coach session.
Why can I not open the exercises?
If the list is replaced by a panel saying the coach is still working, the session has been placed but not written yet. It fills in on its own. See the page on a session still being written.
What does per side mean after an exercise?
Do that amount on one side, then the same again on the other: 0:40 per side is 40 seconds on the left and then 40 seconds on the right. Workout mode runs it as a left step and then a right step, and the session's length counts both sides.
What is the small mark next to the sport name?
It says who owns the session. The coach logo means your coach wrote it. The person mark means it is yours, either because you added it or because you moved or edited a coach session. Your coach plans around a session that is yours rather than replacing it.

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.