Activity: plan

In this section you will find information about two types of activities in Staminity and about how to:

• Create a simple activity manually;
• Create a structured activity manually;
• Create an activity with a template;
• Create one or several activities by copying;
• Create an activity for several athletes at once;
• Planning for a group of athletes.

Types of activities in Staminity

There are two types of activities in Staminity: simple activities and structured activities. The coach and the athlete can choose a suitable option for different types of activities.

• Simple activities. The plan for it is set for whole activity with summary indicators, and the details is described by the text.

• Structured activities. This activity plan is divided into segments. Duration/distance and intensity are planned for each segment. The card in the calendar shows the load profile.

For structured activities, completion is calculated automatically for every segment, which lets the coach check faster whether the task was done correctly.

Planning activities and competitions for future days is available on the “Premium” tariff (for yourself) and on the “Coach” tariff (for athletes).

How to plan an activity - simple activity

In the calendar:

1. Open your calendar or the athlete's calendar, if you plan the activity not for yourself. The athlete is chosen in the top bar of the calendar, next to the month name.

2. Move the mouse over the required day and click the “+” button at the bottom of the day. A choice window opens: an activity by sport, a competition, an event or a measurement. Choose the sport of the activity:

3. In the activity window, set:

• the activity category;
• the plan by duration (either total time or total distance), and if needed - the plan by intensity (heart rate, pace or power);
• the coach's task. The task text can be formatted, and links, images and YouTube videos can be inserted.

The intensity plan can be set either as one value, the average for the activity, or as a range of values.

In the dashboard (for coaches):

1. Open the coach dashboard and move the mouse over the required day in the athlete's row.

2. Click the “+” button in the day cell or choose “Create” in the day menu:

3. Create the activity following steps 2-3 as described above.

How to plan an activity - structured activity

1. Start creating the activity in the calendar or in the dashboard, as described above.

2. In the activity window, set the activity category and switch to the plan by segments. If the simple activity already has a manually entered fact, switching is not possible - the app explains why.

3. Plan the segments of the activity, setting duration and intensity for each of them.

To add a default segment, click the add button. The arrow next to it opens a list: single segments - warm-up, work interval, default interval - and ready blocks of segments:

• Intervals series - a series of a main work interval and a rest after it;
• Warm-up + Work + Cool-down - an activity of a warm-up, the main part and a cool-down;
• Warm-up + Intervals + Cool-down - a warm-up, the main interval work and a cool-down;
• Warm-up + Tempo + Cool-down - a warm-up, tempo work and a cool-down.

Having selected several adjacent segments, you can join them into a group and set the number of repeats - useful for interval activities. There, too, a segment can be marked as key or deleted. The number of repeats of an existing group is changed in its counter.

4. Set the coach's task (if needed). The task text can be formatted, and links, images and videos can be inserted.

You can go back to a simple activity with the switch to a simple activity - the app asks to confirm, because the segments are removed.

Plan an activity with a template

Templates help create activities much faster. If you often do similar activities, save them as a template and save time when planning. How to create a template, see the separate section.

The most convenient way is to drag a template from the left templates panel to the required day of the calendar or to the athlete's row in the dashboard. The templates panel is available on a wide screen.

A template can also be chosen when creating an activity: the templates button in the activity window shows how many templates match the chosen sport and category, and opens their list.

Create one or several activities by copying

A new activity can be created by copying any existing one.

To do it, select one or several activities in the calendar and click “Copy” in the day menu or in the top bar.

Then choose the required day and click “Paste”. New activities will be created based on the copied ones.

Please note:

• only activities with a plan can be copied: a completed activity without a plan is not copied - there is nothing to copy in it;
• only activities can be copied, events, measurements and competitions cannot be copied;
• when copying activities between athletes, the intensity is recalculated based on the athletes' threshold values.

How to create an activity for several athletes at once

One activity in the activity window is created for one athlete. To give the same task to several athletes:

• copy the activity and paste it into other athletes' days in the dashboard - the app asks to whom to paste and recalculates the intensity for each athlete's threshold;
• or put the activities into a training plan and assign it to several athletes at once - see below.

Planning for a group of athletes

If a coach works with groups of athletes, it is most convenient to use “training plans”. For details about training plans, see the separate section: Training plans - Working with groups of athletes