Coach Start Guide

This guide will help you set up Vekta step by step and get familiar with the platform. It is designed to walk you through creating Workspaces, onboarding athletes, and applying data-driven insights to coaching with precision from day one.

Workspaces are the foundation of Vekta. They are your coaching command centre, keeping athletes, teams, and coaches organised. Workspaces centralise data, communication, and training management in one environment.

1. Sign up or log in as a Coach
   Sign up here or log in here if you already have an account.

2. Create your Workspace
   From the Workspace menu in the upper-left corner, select Create a Workspace. You can also join an existing Workspace if one has already been set up. There is no limit to the number of Workspaces you can create.

3. Organise your athletes
   Each Workspace allows you to group athletes in a way that reflects your coaching structure. For example, you might group by team, gender, or create custom categories.

4. Set billing preferences
   Choose the billing plan that works best for you, either monthly or yearly. Learn more here.

You can access your Workspaces, or create new ones, anytime from the Workspace menu in the upper-left corner of your screen. Learn more about Workspaces.

Athletes are added to Vekta through your Workspace. Once invited, their account, data, and training history sync automatically to your Workspace.

1. Invite athletes by email
   Enter one or more email addresses to send invitations to your athletes.

2. Athlete setup
   Each athlete receives an email with a unique code and a link to download the Vekta mobile app. After creating an account and syncing their devices, they can connect to your Workspace.

3. Join your Workspace
   From the app, athletes navigate to Settings > Workspaces and enter their code.

4. Access training history
   When device syncing is complete, their historical training data and ongoing performance metrics become available in your Workspace.

If you need any help with athlete onboarding, our support team is here to assist.

The Coach Dashboard gives you a clear overview of all your athletes’ training and recovery status inside a Workspace.

1. Track training
   Review completed sessions and planned workouts, with highlights making it easy to spot what has been done.

2. View athlete data
   See key recovery metrics including Sleep, Resting Heart Rate (RHR), Heart Rate Variability (HRV), and Wellness Score.

3. Select time periods
   Use the time selector in the top-left corner to adjust the date range you want to view.

The Athlete Calendar gives you a detailed view of each athlete. It unifies sessions, performance data, wellness metrics, athlete 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, individualised workouts in seconds. Describe the session and it will generate a workout, personalised to your athlete.

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 the athlete’s Calendar. The session will then sync directly to their device.

Learn more about how to create a session here.

Every race, competition, or test is a key milestone in an athlete’s journey. Scheduling these events in Vekta ensures their training is aligned with upcoming goals.

1. Open the Calendar
   Select the date you want to schedule an event for your athlete.

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 the athlete’s Calendar, giving both you and your athlete 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 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 stored automatically by training stimulus and personalised to each athlete’s individual 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.

Every coach has a library of proven workouts. Vekta makes the transition smooth and effortless by helping you transfer your entire TrainingPeaks workout library in just a few minutes.

1. Book a call
   Simply book a call with one of our experts who will quickly transfer your library, ensuring every session is imported accurately.

Speak with our team to transfer your library

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 and your athletes 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 athletes 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 an athlete’s best power values from the session against their season and all-time records. Go deeper by analysing 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 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 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 an athlete spent in each zone over the course of their race, and how the effort was distributed.

4. Intervals
   Automatically detected climbs provide a detailed view of how your athlete 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 coaching workflow. It gives athletes space to share feedback in the moment and gives you the context to respond with precision.

1. Open chat
   From the Workout Analysis page, click the chat icon in the top-right corner.

2. Direct communication
   Athletes can share comments and reflections directly after each workout in the Athlete App. You can respond without leaving the platform, keeping conversations tied to their training and progress.

3. Vekta AI Agent
   After every session, you’ll both receive an AI-generated summary highlighting key takeaways. These insights sharpen post-session conversations, helping you adjust strategy and keep athletes on track.

Learn more about communicating with athletes here.

The Athlete Profile gives you a complete view of each athlete’s current fitness, training zones, and key performance markers.

1. Accessing profiles
   From the top-right corner of the screen, select an athlete’s profile to open their 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 athlete’s 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 the athlete’s 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 the 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 athletes to report readiness each morning. It gives you context beyond the numbers, helping you adjust training to recovery status.

1. How it works
   Athletes 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 Coach Dashboard and Athlete 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 an athlete’s 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 the athlete’s 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 athlete health. Learn more about Wellness Check-in