This month, we released a brand new surveys feature that allows professionals to build athlete-friendly surveys for collecting data. From within the Metrics Hub, coaches can design surveys with a variety of input types to make survey completion dead-simple for athletes.
Input forms include binary choice, multiple choice, scale, integer, and decimal.
Under the hood, surveys use normal metrics to store measurement data, so you can use these metrics in reports, conditional logic, etc.
Surveys can be deployed by inserting them into any workout, so they can be baked into your programming. You can also deploy surveys using a new type of action within automations.
To get started creating surveys, head to the Metrics Hub and click the "New Metric" button. There, you'll find a new option for creating surveys.
In connection with the surveys feature release, the timed automation trigger was improved so that the daily timed trigger can be limited to specific days.
With these additions to the automations feature, you can automatically deploy surveys to athletes in targeted, useful ways.
Automations can now be triggered when a new athlete joins the team. This allows you to do things like add them to a group for further onboarding, or having them start a program that walks them through some instructional content, or deploys an intake survey.
Institution managers now have a bulletin board where they can post general information. This is a free text box that allows you to create lists, add links, and insert images. The bulletin board can be accessed in the institution's settings, and is visible to athletes on their mobile devices.
The mobile interface now shows athletes the attributes of their 10 most recent sets for the current exercise.
By knowing exactly where they've been, athletes can stay more motivated and accountable to where they should be going for every set they perform.
A new setting was added to sets within the workout builder, which enables you to designate a set as a "testing set." After a testing set is recorded, a new measurement will automatically be recorded for the athlete for the relevant metric. In particular, this makes it easier to prescribe AMRAP sets with a target intensity.
For example, maybe you want the athlete to perform 6 reps at 65% and 75% for the first two sets. However, you want to the last set to be as many reps as possible at 85%, and you want the performance to be used for calculating an estimated 1 rep max. To do this, you would simply need to have an E1RM formula established for the metric and check the "Testing set" option for the last set.
This adds more flexibility in how you can write workouts and capture performance measurements.
The training logs feature got an improved interface as well as a new name: Training Report. The new training report design makes it easier to parse out athlete activities.
There's also a new compliance measurement that displays the percentage of completed sets for the reporting period, as well as the percentage of completed sets for each week.
The Training Report can be accessed from the Reports section for any given team. It can also be accessed from an athlete's dashboard (accessible from the roster).