A volume jump is a single run or ride that’s more than your team’s limit longer than the athlete’s longest of that sport in the last 30 days. Runs are measured by distance, rides by moving time. Out of the box the limit is 12% for runs and 25% for rides.
Why one session, not a big week
The largest running-injury study yet followed 5,205 runners. Runs just 10–30% longer than a runner’s recent longest came with about 60% more overuse injuries. Weekly mileage changes did not predict injury. The session to watch is the one big step past recent ones. Read the research.
There’s no cycling study behind the ride limit yet. It’s the running rule applied as a coaching rule. Rides are measured in time, so a trainer ride counts the same as one on the road.
What counts
- Only running and cycling sessions are checked.
- The ceiling is the athlete’s longest session of that sport in the 30 days before this one. The session itself doesn’t count toward its own ceiling.
- A session exactly at the limit isn’t a jump. It has to go past it.
On Coach Hub, an athlete whose completed run or ride was a volume jump gets an amber marker on their row. Hover or tap it to see how far past their 30-day longest it went and your team’s limit. A Volume jumps chip above the list counts them; tap it to show only those athletes.
The athlete’s coach (or the head coach, if no coach is assigned) also gets one push when the session comes in. Tap it to open the workout.
On the workout
Open the completed workout and a Volume jump pill, such as Volume jump +22% (distance), sits with the other results. Below it, the Long-Run Ceiling (or Long-Ride Ceiling) panel shows every run or ride from the last 30 days as bars, with lines for the athlete’s longest and for your limit. It opens on its own when the session was a jump.
On Team Schedule, a run or ride card shows an amber badge with the number of athletes it would push past their limit. Tap it to see who, each athlete’s 30-day longest, the planned distance or time, and how far over it is.
In Add Assignment, once you’ve picked the workout, the date and who it’s for, an amber strip under the date says how many athletes would make a volume jump. Tap Show to see their names. You can still save the assignment; the strip is a heads-up, not a block.
Planned sessions count
The schedule looks at what’s already planned, not just what’s done. If Saturday’s long run is on the schedule, it raises the ceiling for a run after it, and it gets the badge itself if it’s the jump.
A planned run uses the athlete’s own distance for that workout. If the workout is written in time, Smagpie estimates the distance from the athlete’s pace and marks it est.
Go to Team Settings → Compliance. There’s a Running section and a Cycling section, shown for the sports your team has turned on. Each has:
- An on/off switch. Off means that sport is never checked.
- Jump limit (%): how much longer than the 30-day longest a session can be before it’s a jump. Running allows 5–50%, cycling 5–100%.
- Days with a run (or ride) needed: how many days of that sport the athlete needs in the last 30 before there’s a ceiling. 1–10; the default is 3.
Click Save Compliance Settings.
An athlete is building a base when they’ve done that sport on fewer than the needed days in the last 30 (3 by default). With so little recent training there’s no fair ceiling to compare against, so Smagpie doesn’t call anything a jump.
You’ll see a grey marker instead of an amber one: on the athlete’s Coach Hub row, as a grey new count on Team Schedule cards, and as a grey line in Add Assignment.
Only if you turn it on. In Team Settings → Compliance, switch on Athletes see it. Athletes then see the Volume jump pill and the ceiling panel on their own completed workouts.
It’s off to start, so only coaches see volume jumps. Coach Hub, Team Schedule, Add Assignment and the push are always coach-only.
Open Notifications, tap ⚙ Settings, and turn off push on the Volume Jumps row of Notification Preferences. You can also get there from your account page.
Volume jumps still show on Coach Hub and on the workout. Only the push stops.