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Trainers and trainees

Invite trainees, activate programs for them, follow their progress and adjust their runs.

Trainerflow was built for the trainer–athlete relationship, so it should come as no surprise that a trainer can program for other people. The people a trainer programs for are their trainees. This page walks through that relationship from both sides.

Inviting a trainee

As a trainer, open Trainees in the navigation. Type the email address of the person you want to train and press Invite. They get an email with a link, and appear in your list straight away, marked as invited.

An invitation is valid for 14 days. If it expires, or the email went astray, open the trainee and press Resend invitation for a fresh link. Changed your mind? Revoke invitation cancels it.

Accepting

The link in the email opens a page saying that you want to be their trainer. If they already have a Trainerflow account they press Accept invitation (or Log in to accept first); if not, Create an account takes them through signing up. Either way, once they accept, their account becomes a trainee account and they appear in your list.

Your trainees

Click a trainee to open their panel, which has three tabs:

  • Program: the program they are running, if any, and their runs of your programs.
  • Insights: insights drawn from what they logged.
  • Info: who they are.

Getting them started

A trainee with no active program shows Get name started. Pick one of your programs from Choose a program… and press Activate. The run appears in their app straight away.

Like everyone, a trainee can have only one active program at a time. To move them onto something else, stop their current run first.

Following and adjusting

Click a trainee’s run to open its run page: the whole timeline of what they did, with their notes. Reply to their notes to keep the conversation next to the session it is about.

As their trainer you can change their run whenever you like. Press Edit, adjust the run’s copy of the program in the SPDK and press Apply changes. It works exactly like changing your own run, and nothing changes for anyone else running the same program. You can also Stop the run, and when it hits a runtime error you are the one who fixes it.

The daily digest

Trainers can get a daily email with what their trainees did. Turn it on with Send me the daily digest under Preferences in the user menu.

Ending the relationship

Remove trainee ends the coaching relationship. Their runs of your programs stop, and they get an email letting them know. If you were their only trainer, their account goes back to being an athlete account, so they can write and run their own programs again.

The trainee’s side

A trainee sees a simpler Trainerflow. The website has My programs, with their trainer shown at the top and the runs their trainer has activated for them below. Until the first program arrives, it says Waiting on your trainer.

Trainees do not write, edit or stop programs. Their place is the mobile app: they open it, press play and train, entering what they did and posting notes as they go. Everything they enter shows up for their trainer.