🎯 Zones and benchmarks

Coaches set the zone percentages for the whole team in Team Settings → Team Zones. Each athlete’s own thresholds live on their Benchmarks page, and Smagpie combines the two, so a workout written in zones becomes personal paces, heart rates or watts for every athlete.

The team’s zones

In Team Settings → Team Zones, a coach chooses the zone set for each sport: pace, heart rate and power for Running, Cycling and Swimming, plus a shared heart-rate set for every other sport. You can start from a predefined zone system and preview it. There’s no fixed “Zone 2 = 65–79%” in Smagpie; the team’s settings decide.

Each athlete’s benchmarks

An athlete’s thresholds are on their Benchmarks page:

• Running: threshold pace (you can calculate it from a race time), threshold heart rate and functional threshold power (FTP).
• Cycling: FTP and threshold heart rate.
• Swimming: threshold pace (you can calculate it from a CSS test).
• General: resting heart rate and max heart rate.

Change a value and click Save.

Who can see Benchmarks

• Athletes find Benchmarks in the menu. It needs an Athlete Pass; without one, it isn’t in the menu.
• Coaches open an athlete’s benchmarks from that athlete’s dashboard: in Athletes, click the athlete, then go to their health metrics section. You can also get there from the athlete popup on Coach Hub.

The athlete’s completed run, ride or swim went well off the workout you assigned. A red ↑ means over plan and a blue ↓ means under plan, on load (how much work the session was) or intensity (how hard it was). Athletes who did what you planned get no arrow.

Seeing the numbers

On a computer, hover over the arrow. You’ll see something like “Load 94 / plan 70 (+34%)”, and an intensity line too if that was also off. On a phone, the Coach Hub shows one arrow, for whichever miss is bigger compared with its tolerance. Tap it to see both numbers.

What counts

• Only sessions linked to a workout you assigned. A run nobody assigned won’t show an arrow.
• Runs, rides and swims. Strength sessions are ignored.
• Load is the day’s total across the athlete’s assigned sessions. Intensity is the hardest single session.

How far off is “too far”

In Team Settings → Compliance:

• Load uses your team’s Yellow tolerance (%) under Endurance Compliance (20% by default). The arrow appears only beyond it.
• Intensity has its own Intensity tolerance (%) (10% by default). One training zone is roughly 10%, so the default flags a session run about a zone too hot or too easy.

Planned load and intensity come from each athlete’s benchmarks. If an athlete’s thresholds are out of date, their arrows will be too.