Athlete Start Guide

This guide will help you set up Vekta step by step and get to know the platform. It is designed to walk you through creating your account, syncing your devices, joining your coach’s Workspace, and making the most of Vekta’s tools to track your training, recovery, and performance.

Your Vekta journey starts in the mobile app.

1. Download the Vekta App
   Available to download here for iOS and here for Android.

2. Sign up with Google or Apple
   Create your account in just a few taps.

Syncing your devices ensures your training and recovery data flows automatically to and from Vekta.

1. Connect devices
   When prompted, connect your training devices and wearables.

2. Historical data
   Past training history uploads automatically during device sync, giving you immediate visibility of past sessions, recovery markers, and performance trends.

3. Ongoing sync
   All future planned sessions are automatically pushed to your calendars and devices, while completed sessions and recovery data sync back.

4. Support if needed
   Our team is on hand to verify data migration to ensure nothing is missed.

Learn more about our integrations here

Your coach’s Workspace is where all of your training comes together. Once connected, your coach can view your training and recovery, plan upcoming sessions, analyse your workouts, and keep communication tied directly to your progress.

1. Receive coach invite
   Your coach will invite you to their Workspace, and you will receive an email with a unique code.

2. Enter the code
   In the Vekta app, go to Settings > Workspaces and add the code to join their workspace.

3. Join Workspace
   Once connected, your training and recovery sync into the Workspace, giving your coach everything they need to guide your plan, analyse your progress, and keep communication tied directly to your sessions.

The Vekta Athlete App puts your training in one place. Whether you’re working with a coach or training on your own, it connects your sessions, recovery, and insights so you can stay on track and keep moving forward.

1. Planned sessions
   View upcoming workouts in detail, including planned intervals and structure.

2. Completed sessions
   Review full breakdowns of your workouts, complete with completed intervals and a power profile.

3. Communicate with your coach
   Share comments and reflections directly after each workout. Your coach receives them instantly, supported by an AI-generated summary highlighting key takeaways.

4. Calendar tab
   Scroll through planned and completed sessions with ease, keeping your training journey visible at a glance.

5. Daily Wellness Check-in
   A quick way to report readiness each morning. Your responses add context beyond the numbers, helping you and your coach align training to recovery. Over time, results are combined in the Insights tab so you can track patterns and make adjustments.

6. Add weight
   Log weight updates directly in the app. Entries will automatically sync to the desktop platform.

7. Profile
   Access a complete view of your current fitness, training zones, and key performance markers, updated daily.

While the app keeps you moving day to day, the desktop platform unlocks the detail. Powerful tools to plan, review, and understand your training at a higher level.

1. Getting started on desktop
   Log in here and sign in with the same Google or Apple account you used for the app.

2. Switch seamlessly
   Everything you do in the Vekta app is mirrored on desktop, so you can move between them without missing a beat.

3. App + desktop together
   Use the app for day-to-day on the go and the desktop for more detailed planning and reviewing. Both work hand in hand to keep you progressing.

Your Calendar is the centre of your training life in Vekta. It unifies sessions, performance data, wellness metrics, feedback, and events into a single view.

1. Track sessions
   Planned and completed workouts are shown here, with Automatic Stimulus Tagging applied to completed sessions.

2. Monitor recovery and wellness
   Recovery and wellness metrics appear at the top of each day, along with Daily Wellness Check-in, including weight updates.

3. Add sessions
   To Create a Session, hover over a day and select the + icon to add a planned workout or event.

4. Create notes
   From the + icon, select Note, choose a category (Rest Day, Availability, Training, Medical, Nutrition, Mental, or Other), add any additional details, and save. Learn more about creating a note here

5. Review Weekly Summary
   In the right-hand panel you will find the Weekly Summary, providing a real-time snapshot of key performance and training metrics.

6. Copy, Paste & Cut
   For quick adjustments and repeated sessions, use the copy/paste or cut/paste functions.

Learn more about the Athlete Calendar.

Vekta’s Workout Builder uses generative AI to create structured and personalised workouts in seconds.

1. Add a session
   Hover over the desired day in the Calendar, click the + icon, and select Session.

2. Describe the workout
   Give the session a title and write the workout in plain language. For example: 15 min warm-up, 5 × 4 min at threshold, 2 min recovery, 10 min cool down.

3. Generate the structure
   Click Generate Structure to automatically build the workout, personalised to the athlete’s training zones.

4. Add additional info
   Include details such as distance, RPE, elevation, and carbohydrate intake if required.

5. Save to your Training Library
   Check the box in the bottom-left to save the workout for future use.

6. Save workout
   Click Save in the bottom-right to add the workout to your Calendar. The session will then sync directly to your device.

Learn more about how to create a session here.

Every race, competition, or test is a key milestone in your journey. Scheduling these events in Vekta ensures your training is aligned with upcoming goals.

1. Open the Calendar
   Select the date where you want to schedule an event.

2. Add an event
   Click the + icon and choose Event from the session type options.

3. Enter details
   Pick the sport, add a name, and include an optional description to provide context.

4. Save
   The event will now appear in your Calendar, giving both you and your coach a clear target around which to structure training.

Learn more about scheduling events here.

Your Vekta Training Library is your central vault where every session can be saved, organised, and reused seamlessly. This allows you to quickly build and adapt your training plans.

1. Access the Library
   Open the Training Library from the library icon in the bottom-left corner of the Calendar.

2. Organised storage
   Workouts are automatically organised by training stimulus and aligned to your training zones.

3. Add a session to the Calendar
   Drag and drop a saved session from your Library onto the desired date in the Calendar.

4. Customise sessions
   Click a session once added to the Calendar to edit or make adjustments.

Learn more about the Training Library here.

Vekta’s AI-driven training analysis turns post-session review into a fast, intelligent, and actionable process. Instead of sifting through raw data, you receive meaningful insights instantly, helping you make data-driven decisions, faster.

1. Overview
   Visualise adherence by comparing the planned versus completed session, supported by deeper insights through Vekta Volume & Intensity, and key workout statistics. Learn more about Vekta Volume & Intensity here.

2. Streams
   The Streams view brings all metrics together in one place. Power, heart rate, torque, W′ balance, and more. All overlaid in a single chart. Toggle multiple streams, detected intervals, and power zones to uncover relationships between variables.

3. Zones
   View time in zone across both power and heart rate. This breakdown shows how long you spent in each training zone, helping you assess session intensity distribution and alignment with prescription.

4. Intervals
   Intervals are automatically detected and tagged with the appropriate training stimulus. Access clear performance summaries for each interval, and use toggles at the top to filter the intervals you want to focus on for a concise view. Learn more here.

5. Peaks
   Compare your best power values from the session against your season and all-time records. Go deeper by analysing your peaks at different fatigue levels (0–50 kJ/kg) to understand durability and performance under load, a critical insight for endurance athletes. Learn more here.

6. Comparison
   Session Comparison instantly lines up similar workouts, visualising how your performance has changed across time. Using a proprietary similarity score, Vekta retrieves the most relevant past sessions and displays them side by side for data-driven review. Learn more here.

Learn more about Session Analysis here.

Races provide the ultimate test of preparation. Vekta’s Race Analysis gives you the same powerful tools as Workout Analysis, with additional features designed for competition.

1. Overview
   Review Vekta Volume & Intensity, and race summary statistics to assess your execution and outcomes.

2. Streams
   Overlay real-time data such as power, heart rate, and W Prime. Toggle multiple streams, detected climbs, and power zones to explore performance patterns.

3. Zones
   View time in zone across both power and heart rate. See exactly how long you spent in each zone over the course of the race, and how the effort was distributed.

4. Intervals
   Automatically detected climbs provide a detailed view of how you performed on key segments.

5. Peaks
   Compare best power values from the race against season and all-time records. Analyse how performance held under different fatigue levels (0–50 kJ/kg).

6. Comparison
   Line up the race against similar past events. Vekta highlights differences in raw data, intervals, and performance metrics for meaningful, data-driven comparisons.

Vekta makes communication seamless by integrating chat directly into the Vekta app and desktop. It gives you space to share feedback in the moment and ensures your coach has the right context to respond with precision.

1. Open chat
   Either open chat from the Workout Analysis page on desktop, or communicate directly from the Vekta app after each completed session.

2. Vekta AI Agent
   After every session, you and your coach will both receive an AI-generated summary highlighting key takeaways. These insights sharpen post-session conversations, helping you and your coach adjust strategy and keep on track.

Learn more about communicating with athletes here.

Your Profile gives you a complete view of your current fitness, training zones, and key performance markers.

1. Accessing profiles
   From the top-right corner of the screen, select Profile to open your data.

2. Key performance markers
   At the core of every profile are Critical Power (CP), W Prime (W'), and Peak Power. These markers update daily, giving you a profile that always reflects your true capacity. Learn more about Critical Power & W Prime

3. Power Profile
   The Power Profile acts like a fingerprint of performance, showing best efforts across different durations. Compare today’s estimated profile against your 16-week history to track changes over time. Learn more here

4. Adaptive Training Zones
   Vekta Adaptive Training Zones are based on a seven-zone model and continuously analyse your latest performance data. Zones adjust daily using recent performance markers such as Critical Power, Pmax, and W′. This keeps training prescriptions aligned with current fitness levels, not last month’s. Learn more here

The Vekta Daily Wellness Check-in is a quick way for you to report readiness each morning. It gives you context beyond the numbers, helping you and your coach adjust training to recovery status.

1. How it works
   You answer four questions each morning in the Vekta Athlete App, scored 1–7. Lower scores indicate high readiness, higher scores signal fatigue or strain.

2. The questions

   • Fatigue – highlights recovery status and potential overtraining

   • Sleep – captures quality of rest, a key driver of performance

   • Mood/stress – reveals mental readiness and recovery capacity

   • Soreness – indicates how the body is responding to recent training

3. How you view
   Results appear in your Calendar, and are combined over time in the Insights tab so you can track trends and adjust training when required.

Learn more about Wellness Check-ins

The Insights tab gives you a zoomed-out perspective of your training, performance, and recovery over time. It brings long-term patterns into focus so you can connect daily training to overall progression.

1. Accessing Insights
   Click the Insights tab in the top-right corner of the screen. From here, you’ll have access to five additional views.

2. Load
   Track training volume and intensity distribution over time to see how work is accumulating. Identify trends in workload and how they relate to performance and recovery. Learn more about Vekta Load

3. Training
   Break down sessions by intensity and map them against your power profile, making strengths, weaknesses, and training balance clear.

4. Performance
   See the evolution of power profiles, durability under fatigue, and when peak performances occurred. Track the balance of Critical Power and W′ for a clear view of aerobic versus anaerobic capacity. Learn more about Peaks

5. Race
   Review overall race volume and key statistics. The Race Power Profile shows best outputs achieved during competition across different durations and fatigue levels, helping you compare race-day performance to training benchmarks. Learn more about Race Classification

6. Wellness
   Monitor recovery and readiness with markers such as HRV and resting heart rate. View sleep quality broken down into REM, light, deep, and awake stages, alongside daily wellness check-ins, to build a complete picture of your health. Learn more about Wellness Check-in