How to Invite Athletes Using Your Coaching Link

Once your Simma coaching account is set up, the next step is getting your athletes on board. Simma uses a coaching link — a unique, branded URL tied to your account — that handles the entire athlete onboarding process. You share the link, they follow it, and they land on your squad dashboard ready to go.

Here's how it works from both sides.

Where to find your coaching link

Your coaching link is in your Simma dashboard under your account settings. It's based on the slug you chose during signup — something like getsimma.com/join/coach-mike — and you can update it any time from your profile settings. It's clean enough to drop into a text message, email, or your website, and because you chose it, it's easy for athletes to remember.

How to share it with your squad

The link works anywhere you'd normally communicate with athletes. The most common approaches:

Email your squad. A short message is all you need. Something like: "I'm setting up Simma to help me track your training and send you better weekly feedback. Click this link to get started — it takes a few minutes and you'll need your Garmin account handy." No need to oversell it. Coaches who frame it as a tool that helps them coach better tend to get faster adoption than coaches who pitch it as a new app for athletes.

Drop it in your group chat. If you use WhatsApp, Telegram, or a team messaging app with your squad, the link works well as a pinned message.

Add it to your website or coaching portal. If you have a site or use a platform like TrainingPeaks, you can add your Simma coaching link to your onboarding flow or welcome email.

Share it one-on-one. For new athletes joining your squad, include the link in your onboarding email alongside whatever else you send (training plans, expectations, logistics).

What athletes see when they sign up

When an athlete clicks your coaching link, they're guided through a short onboarding flow:

1. Create their account. Name, email, password. They'll see your name and profile as their coach, so they know they're in the right place.

2. Connect their Garmin account. The athlete authorises Simma to read their training data — sessions, heart rate, GPS, the lot. This is a one-time setup; after that, data syncs automatically.

3. Set their levels. Athletes are asked to set their current level for each relevant discipline — swim, bike, and run. This gives Simma a baseline for understanding their training context. It doesn't need to be precise — a general self-assessment is enough for the agent to calibrate its analysis. You can adjust these levels in the athlete's setting as well as precisely setting their FTP and threshold pace once they're in your squad.

4. They land on their athlete dashboard. The dashboard populates with activities as they happen from this point forward — so athletes will start seeing their sessions appear as soon as they log their next workout. Once you've sent one, their weekly summary from you shows up here too.

The whole process takes a few minutes. You don't need to do anything on your end — once an athlete completes onboarding through your link, they appear on your squad dashboard automatically.

What you see on your end

As athletes join, they populate your squad view. You'll see their name, connected device, and status. Once they've logged a few sessions, their training data starts feeding into your Monday Pre-Screen dashboard — on track, monitor, or needs attention.

Athletes who have connected their device but haven't logged any sessions yet will show as inactive until data starts flowing. This is normal during the first few days of onboarding.

Tips for a smooth rollout

Onboard in batches if your squad is large. If you're bringing 30+ athletes onto Simma, consider doing it in waves — start with 10-15, get comfortable with the dashboard and summaries, then bring the rest on. This lets you refine your tone of voice and instructions (see How to Set Up Your Weekly Summary Agent) before the full squad is active.

Set expectations. Let athletes know what Simma does for them: they'll get a weekly summary from you grounded in their actual data, and they can ask questions about their training through the app. They don't need to do anything differently — just keep wearing their watch and logging sessions as usual.

Follow up with stragglers. There will always be a few athletes who don't click the link the first time. A simple reminder a week later usually does it. If an athlete doesn't have a Garmin device, they won't be able to join yet — Simma currently requires Garmin for data sync.

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