Every roster has that athlete. The one coming back from a stress fracture on a modified build. The one peaking two weeks ahead of everyone else. The one who needs strides when the rest of the group needs rest.
Until now, your targeting options were the whole team or a group — so you either built a one-person group to work around it, or handled that athlete’s training off the books. This release adds the third option that was always missing.
Whole team, a group — or just the athletes you pick
In the Add and Edit Assignment forms, the old group row is now a three-way choice: Whole Team, Groups, or Athletes. Pick Athletes and a searchable roster picker opens — select one athlete or several, and the workout syncs to their watches only. Nobody else sees it, nobody else gets it.
Selections are sticky, mirroring how group targeting already works: the athletes you just assigned stay picked for your next assignment. Laying out a full return-to-run week for one athlete is pick-once, assign-many. (Editing an existing assignment deliberately leaves your sticky picks alone.)
On the athlete’s side, the day-view card carries a subtle “Just for you” caption — enough to say your coach built this for you without making a scene of it.
The schedule keeps individual work separate
The Training Schedule gains an Individuals row — in the desktop grid and the mobile band — that appears only when the week you’re viewing actually has athlete-targeted work. No clutter in weeks that don’t. Cards show a person icon with the athlete’s name, or a count like “3 Athletes” when several are on it.
The row carries its own training-load rollup, so an individual workout never inflates a group’s totals or the team’s. One athlete’s double day stays that athlete’s double day.
Drag-and-drop fully understands the new row. Rescheduling within it keeps the athlete list intact. Dragging an individual workout onto a group or the whole team asks before widening the audience. Dropping a team or group card onto the Individuals row is rejected — there’s no roster to infer. And undo restores the targeting along with the date.
If you train with your team, read this
Plenty of coaches do the workouts right alongside their athletes. Until now, every whole-team workout landed on every coach’s watch whether they wanted it or not — an accident of how coach accounts were wired, not a choice anyone made. From this release, it’s your choice.
There’s a new checkbox on your Account page: “I train with this team.” New coaches get it ticked by default at registration. But if you’re an existing coach who trains with your team, whole-team workouts stop syncing to your watch until you tick it — so take ten seconds this week and go tick the box.
While it’s unticked, you also won’t appear in the new athlete picker or in bulk health-metrics entry. Two things are unaffected either way: a workout explicitly targeted at you — individually or through a group you belong to — always arrives, and coaches who opt in also receive the new workout notifications described below.
Athletes hear about new work — automatically
For the first time, scheduling workouts tells your athletes about it. When you schedule future workouts, each affected athlete gets an in-app inbox message, a push notification, and an email.
And it’s built not to nag. Everything you schedule in one sitting coalesces into a single “4 new workouts” message per athlete, sent a couple of minutes after you finish — lay out an entire month and each athlete still hears about it exactly once. Only newly created future workouts trigger it; rescheduling existing work and logging past-dated sessions stay silent.
Small touches
The Preview for athlete button on the assignment detail page works again — it had been opening an empty menu instead of the roster.
Next time one athlete needs something different, choose Athletes in the assignment form and send it to just them — and if you train with your team, tick “I train with this team” on your Account page first so your own watch stays in the loop.