Real decision trees with automations

• This month, we will release a brand new decision tree feature called Automations. This new feature allows you to visually map out decision trees that will execute automatically in response to changes in athlete data. When an automation is triggered for a given athlete, they will traverse the nodes in the tree based on your conditional logic, and your specified actions will be executed along the way.
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• Automations provide coaches with a much more intuitive and flexible interface for creating automated decision trees, which can drastically improve coaching efficiency and the quality of athlete training.
• Like before, automations will be triggered whenever athlete data is updated. You can also setup automations to trigger on a timed basis (hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly).
• Groups will now be created and managed from the roster page.
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• IMPORTANT: In connection with the release of this new feature, all conditional logic currently associated with groups will be transferred to automations. The new automation objects will be structured with the necessary nodes and logic to maintain the current outcomes of existing group logic.
• Of particular note is the treatment of categorized groups. All groups for the same category will be combined into a single automation for the category name, and the conditional logic of each group in the category will be represented as if/else logic in the decision tree.
• For example, suppose you had four separate groups named Expert, Advanced, Intermediate, and Beginner. Also suppose that these four groups were categorized as "Training skill" and prioritized as 1, 2, 3, 4, respectively. Given this scenario, all these groups would be combined into a single automation like the example shown above, and it would be named "Training skill automation." The logic of the automation would be the same as the previous logic for the groups.
• Group categories will migrated to a more flexible tagging feature, which allows coaches to further refine group categorization. These tags can also be used in automations to remove athletes from all groups with a given tag.
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• In addition to the expanded flexibility and improved ease-of-use that this new feature provides, we anticipate adding many more capabilities to automations, which will further amplify your coaching power and help maximize athlete fitness.

Athlete measurement workflow

• We've improved the roster athlete profile interface with a workflow for recording new measurements for the athlete. For any given display card, you can now add a new measurement for the metric(s) displayed on the card by clicking the "Record new measurement" button in the top right of the card.
  
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Videos for KPIs, KPVs and assessments

• We added the ability to attach videos to your metrics that will be displayed to coaches and athletes where applicable.
• For example, we can attach a video to our Back Squat 1RM KPI, and it will be displayed to the athlete when they are assigned the KPI test in a workout.
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• The video will also be displayed for reference on the coach's side when adding a new measurement from the athlete profile workflow (described above).
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Athlete profile table view

• Athlete profile's have a new table view for displaying metric data.
• Simply add a new section and select the table type to view an athlete's data for the selected metrics.
  
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• You can initiate the new measurement workflow from the table view as well to record measurements for the table's selected metrics.
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Roster profile training section

• The roster profile now has a default section for training, which gives you a quick glance of the athlete's training history so you can easily see what an athlete has on their schedule.
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Athlete attendance reports

• FYTT has a brand new attendance reporting feature that allows you to view athlete attendance both over time and overall within a given time frame.
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• Athlete reports also have a new attendance section to display the same attendance data for the given athlete on the profile.
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• The reports dashboard has also been redesigned to make it easier to access all your reports from a single page:
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Calendar clipboard functionality

• The calendar has new functionality that enables you to perform copy/paste/insert functions for quicker calendar-based workflows.
• Hold down the Ctrl/Cmd button to enable selection mode.
• Once in selection mode, you can select an existing session, then get Ctrl/Cmd + C to copy it. From there, select any number calendar slots to paste the selected session into those slots.
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• You can also copy/paste multiple sessions at a time.
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• Alternatively, you can select one or more slots and insert a session template from your database.
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Updated roster features

• The roster has been updated so that clicking on an athlete now brings up a special athlete dashboard. This dashboard is customizable like the existing dashboards, but it has two pre-built sections for injuries and groups, as well as a few other features.
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• Clicking on the athlete's status allows you to choose from a comprehensive list of states that allow you to better communicate an athlete's status.
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• An injury record now has a free text field that allows coaches and trainers to make detailed notes about the injury so that they document important findings and planned interventions.
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Calendar week export

• You can now export a PDF of the calendar for each athlete's workouts for the week. This enables teams to utilize PDF/paper handouts as part of their workflow.
  
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PHI access control

• You now have the ability to explicitly give PHI access to each coach/trainer on a team. This feature currently has no effect. However, in a future release, the ability to view and edit athlete injuries will be restricted to coaches/trainers who have explicitly been granted PHI access.
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• All roles have PHI access set to "No" by default, so no one has PHI access to start with, including institution managers.
• Staff members without PHI access will only be able to see an athlete's status.

Association of injuries and programs

• When scheduling a program for an individual athlete, either through the calendar or onto the plan, you can now designate a specific injury that the program associated with. This allows staff to better keep track of prescribed interventions for injuries.
  
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• When viewing a program that has been deployed in connection with one or more injuries, you will see an "injuries" link in the top right that allows you to view the injuries for which the program has been deployed. These programs can only be viewed by staff members with PHI access.
  
  
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• When viewing an injury on the athlete's profile, you will also see its associated programs listed in the view:
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Revamped leaderboards

• Leaderboards have a new and improved look, along with a new "TV mode" that allows you to expand the screen for optimal viewing and minimal distractions on a TV screen.
  
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• Most of the leaderboard options are now at the metric level. For each metric, you can configure one or more groups to filter which athletes should be ranked. There's also a new feature that allows you to select the date range that should be used when pulling data to be ranked.
  
  
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Improved group editing on the roster

• The roster interface has been improved so that it's easier to modify athlete groups.
• First, a new "Modify all groups" feature was added, which allows coaches to modify multiple groups for all athletes selected on the table. This saves you a lot of clicks when moving athletes around between multiple groups.
  
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• The add and remove functions for a single group have now been combined into a "Modify single group" interface, where you can either add the selected athletes to a group/coach assignment, or remove them.
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FYTT Practitioner's Manual

• We added a new practitioner's manual to help coaches learn the ropes of using FYTT. The manual covers all the basics that will enable coaches to be proficient users of the software.
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• We have plans to add more sections in the future that will cover advanced topics and delve into the features that help coaches be extremely efficient and data-driven.
• You can access the manual by clicking on the logo in the top-left of the application.

Height and Weight KPV export

• Height and Weight were added as metrics that can be exported using the KPV export tool.
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Session start attendance

• Team's now have a "session start attendance" setting. When turned on, athletes will automatically be marked as present on the session's attendance records so that coaches don't have to manually take attendance if they don't want to.
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Update software versions

• In order to maintain the highest levels of security and reliability, and to enable us to keep innovating and adding features at a rapid pace, we updated our underlying software stack to newer versions. This change provided an improvement in app-wide speeds, and it will help us to continue to maintain a robust, reliable product far into the future.

Customer needs survey

• As part of our effort to continually incorporate customer needs and expectation into the software, we launched a customer needs survey. This survey is designed to help us surface the most important areas where we can help professionals get their jobs done better.
  
  If you feel so inclined, please take customer needs survey to provide your feedback for future improvements.

Plan builder improvements

• The plan builder was updated with some changes to the interface to make plan building faster and more intuitive. First of all, adding a new program is now done by clicking the Add button in a given week on the top row.
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• Additionally, after adding a new or existing program, the plan reloads rather than redirecting to the program. This makes it easier to lay out the overall structure of the plan, then dig into the details of each program once you're ready.
• We've also improved the scrolling on the plan interface so that both the header and the first column are fixed, which makes it easier to keep track of things as you're scrolling through.
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Attendance export feature

• The attendance page now has an export feature that downloads the session's attendance data to a CSV file.
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Improve exercise search within workout builder

• The workout builder was updated with the ability to search exercises by tag, in addition to exercise name. This makes it much easier to find the right exercise for a given modality or category.
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KPI/KPV import by first and last name

• The KPI and KPV importers were improved to be able to import data by first and last name without an email address. While email is always preferable, not all external technologies use email to identify athletes, so this change makes it easier to import data from other systems.

Workout modifier group option

• Workout modifiers now have a group parameter, which allows you to create rules to apply workout adjustments based on group membership
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Whiteboard spreadsheet export

• The whiteboard can now be exported to a spreadsheet so you can download all activity data for a given session. This gives you the same information as the whiteboard and in essentially the same format.
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• You can also download this same spreadsheet from the session pane on the calendar:
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Improved attendance management

• The session attendance page was updated with the ability to quickly change the coach assignments for the session. When you make coach assignments, the whiteboard is filtered to only show athletes assigned to the coach who is viewing it. Note that changing coach assignments for a session does not affect any original group assignments.
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• Additionally, a link to the attendance page was added to the whiteboard for faster switching between the two screens.
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FYTT content transfers

• We released a new feature that allows coaches to transfer their content out of an institution for use in a new institution. This allows coaches to take their programs, processes, and workflows with them whenever they change jobs.
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• We've built in an approval process to help institutions ensure the safety of intellectual property and athlete data.
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• Once an export has been approved and completed, coaches can use their content in their own newly created institution, or they can import it into an existing FYTT institution.

Program Builder 2.0

FYTT's program builder received a major overhaul with huge improvements in speed and functionality. Among many awesome updates, here's a few of the major changes:
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Select and copy/paste/delete functionality

The new program builder gives you the ability to select workouts or days and perform copy/paste/delete operations with your keyboard, very similar to how you would use a spreadsheet. Using Ctrl-Click, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, and Delete keyboard commands, your program building experience will be massively improved. Dare we say that it might be faster than Excel? It just might be.

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Improved workout/session insertion

Paired with the new day selection functionality is a better experience for adding new database workouts and sessions. With your desired days selected, you can now pull up your workout library and insert multiple workouts at once in the order you select them. You can also open up your session database to search for and insert a session.
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Revamped progression builder

The progression builder has also been improved with select/copy/paste interactions, and it's now more flexible. Instead of being limited to fixed weekdays, progression workouts can happen on any day of the week throughout the program. And you can more freely edit them and move them around from the program interface.
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Training videos

To go along with these updates, we've created some training videos that we'll be adding to the FYTT Practitioner's Manual (coming soon). You can check out these videos ahead of time to get a good sense of how programs and progressions will work once the new program builder is live.
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Program Builder (the good stuff starts at ~2:00)

Progression Builder

These updates are a huge contribution to our commitment of providing the best tools for maximizing athlete fitness and creating high performance teams.

Import/export overhaul

• FYTT's data import/export utilities got a complete overhaul. The old CSV format was clunky and non-intuitive, so we adopted a new, more familiar format that allows coaches to import and export data for multiple metrics at once.
  Importing this CSV data will find or create each of the metrics listed and create measurements for each athlete on each date for the given metrics.
• You can now scope imports by team to find or create the athletes for the team as well.
• You can now scope exports by team/institution and metrics to extract all the data you need in a single download.

Inline exercise videos

• Athletes previously had to navigate to the "Exercise info" section to view videos for the exercises in a workout. We've improved the interface so that exercise videos are loaded inline within the workout log form so that athletes can quickly view any videos attached to the exercise.

TV view

• We added a new "TV view" that provides a TV-optimized view of a session that coaches can display on large screens in the weight room. This makes it easy for everyone to see the overall workout structure.
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• The TV view is accessed from the session card on the team calendar using the desktop application:

Restricted sessions

• We added a new feature that allows you to control the visibility of individual sessions or entire programs. This allows you to set a session's visibility to "restricted," which hides the content from the athlete until you enable the session from the calendar.

Whiteboard flow

• We changed the whiteboard flow to improve the consistency of interacting with the whiteboard.
• Previously, the session page would have a "Start session" button at the top if a whiteboard session had not been started yet. Once started, you would then access the whiteboard again from a different button in a different location on the session page.
• This new flow provides consistent access to the whiteboard through a static "Whiteboard" button:
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• Once in the whiteboard, you now start, stop, or reactivate the session from the primary action button in the top-right corner:
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Speed improvements

• Improved loading times of the athletes tab on the roster by ~75%
• Improved loading times of assessment tabs on the roster by ~50%
• Improved loading times of data management sheets by ~25%
• Improved speed of exercise search from the workout sheet by ~60%

KPVs

• Added the ability to hide/show KPVs on the roster. This gives coaches more control over what metrics they see on the roster, which is particularly useful for organizations that have very large data sets.

Catapult integration

• Fixed a bug where the sync would fail if a previously imported athlete is no longer on the team.

Catapult integration

• FYTT now has an officially supported Catapult integration. This new integration enables you to import data from Catapult into FYTT, which you can use to generate reports and feed into conditional logic. The flow of data from Catapult to FYTT creates an unprecedented opportunity for coaches to provide truly individualized, data-driven workouts to their athletes using real-time, on-field analytics.

Workout modifiers

• Workout modifiers are a brand new feature that enable coaches to add conditional logic to individual workouts.
• For example, if you have a "Soreness" survey metric that you collect from athletes, you could implement something to the effect of "If soreness is greater than 5, then change reps by -3 and weight by -20%."
• Modifiers allow you to modify virtually all attributes of the workout sets based on athlete data. You can target specific exercises in the workout, or all exercises at once.
• With this new feature, decision tree logic is no longer scoped by group membership. You can create a workout with modifiers, and the logic will be applied to anyone who receives the workout, and modifications are made if the athlete meets the criteria you've laid out.

Improved team/institution context

• In-app context for coaches has been improved so that coaches can now work on multiple teams in different browser tabs without issue. Previously, having multiple tabs open for different teams would often lead to mismatched team context between tabs.
• The in-app context for the athlete mobile interface was also improved. In the past, athletes who were part of multiple teams/institutions had to explicitly select a team context to view assigned workouts from that team. This is no longer necessary. Athletes can now see their assigned workouts from all teams that they belong to without any context switching.

Improved UI for athlete workout form

• Some coaches and athletes provided feedback that the number of buttons and the wording of the buttons in the workout form was confusing. To improve clarity and to simplify the athlete experience, the workout form has been updated with fewer buttons and clearer wording.
• For each set/superset, the wording for the button has been changed from "Log" to "Record set as complete" and "Record superset as complete." This makes it more clear that the athlete is recording their results and marking the work as complete.
• The wording for the "Log all & continue" button was change to "Complete all & continue." Again, this change is meant to improve clarity about what the button does. This button was also given more prominence in the UI, because athletes are usually marking the entire workout as complete rather than making incremental changes.
• The "Save" button wording was changed to "Save as is & continue" to make it clear that the athlete can save the workout in its current state (with complete and/or incomplete sets) and move on. This button was given less prominence in the UI because it is a less common scenario.
• The "Continue" button was removed altogether, because it was mostly redundant and created unnecessary clutter in the UI.

Improved athlete import workflow

• When importing athletes, you can now use a placeholder email for the initial import. This means that coaches can quickly create athlete profiles without having to collect emails. You can then update the roster with real emails, then invite athletes when and if you want them to access their FYTT profiles.

API additions

• You can now delete KPIs and KPVs via the API, so cleaning up unused metrics is much easier.

Progression speed and UI improvements

• Progression loading times decreased by about 5%.
• You can now add KPIs, KPVs, and assessments to workouts from the progression interface.

Whiteboard fixes

• There were a few bugs in the whiteboard interface that would cause column misalignment of data under certain conditions. These bugs were fixed to ensure proper data display in the whiteboard.

Support page

• We added a dedicated support page for submitting tickets or initiating an in-app conversation. In conjunction with this, we removed the chat bubble from the rest of the app, because it was interfering with the user experience for some interactions. The new support page can be found here: app.fytt.io/support.