How to Read Your Monday Pre-Screen Dashboard

It's Monday morning. You've got 34 athletes on your squad. Before Simma, you'd spend the first hour (or two) opening session files one by one, trying to work out who had a good week, who's accumulating fatigue, and who you need to check in with. By the time you found the athlete who needs attention, you'd already spent most of your energy on the athletes who didn't.

The Pre-Screen dashboard flips that. It reads every session from every athlete and gives you a squad-level view before you open a single file. Here's how to use it.

What you're looking at

The Pre-Screen dashboard shows every athlete in your squad with a status: on track, monitor, or needs attention. Think of it as triage — the dashboard has already done the screening pass that would normally take you an hour, and it's telling you where to focus.

The statuses aren't arbitrary labels. They're calculated from each athlete's training data — load trends, compliance with the plan, fatigue markers, session quality, and any anomalies in their metrics.

What each status means

On track

The athlete had a week that looks like it should. Load is progressing as expected, sessions were completed with reasonable consistency, and nothing in the data is flagged. These athletes don't need your intervention this week — they need you to keep doing what you're doing.

That doesn't mean you ignore them. They'll still get a weekly summary (and the summary agent handles the detail). But when you're deciding where to spend your coaching time on a Monday morning, these aren't the athletes who need it most.

Monitor

Something is worth watching but isn't urgent. This could mean load has been creeping up and fatigue is building, a couple of sessions were missed or significantly modified, a metric trend is shifting (heart rate drift on easy sessions, for example), or the athlete is approaching a volume or intensity threshold.

Monitor athletes are the ones you'll want to glance at more closely before their weekly summary goes out. You might add a sentence to the summary flagging what you've noticed, or you might decide it's fine and let the summary stand as drafted.

The key: monitor doesn't mean "problem." It means "pay attention." In a squad of 30, you might have 5-8 athletes in monitor status on any given Monday. That's normal and expected, especially during build phases.

Needs attention

Something in the data warrants a direct coaching response. This could be a sharp spike in acute load, multiple missed sessions in a row, a significant change in a key metric (resting heart rate elevated for several days, pace deteriorating despite consistent effort), or any pattern that suggests the athlete might be heading toward overtraining, injury, or disengagement.

These athletes should get your time first. Open their data, look at what triggered the flag, and decide what to do — adjust next week's programme, send a direct message before the weekly summary, or simply make sure the summary addresses the issue head-on.

In a healthy squad, needs-attention athletes should be a small number each week — typically 2-4 out of 30. If you're seeing a higher proportion consistently, it might be worth reviewing your programming or checking whether the squad is in a particularly demanding training phase.

How to use the dashboard in your weekly workflow

The dashboard is designed to be the first thing you look at on Monday. Here's a workflow that most coaches settle into:

First, scan the full squad view. Get the lay of the land. How many on track, how many monitor, how many needs attention? This takes thirty seconds and tells you what kind of Monday you're in for.

Second, open the needs-attention athletes. Look at what triggered the flag. Decide whether it needs an immediate message or whether you'll address it in the weekly summary. If it's urgent (possible injury, significant overtraining pattern), reach out directly.

Third, review monitor athletes before sending summaries. The summary agent will have drafted something for each athlete. For monitor athletes, read the draft and make sure it reflects what you'd say if you'd reviewed the data yourself. Add a line if needed, adjust the emphasis, or approve as-is.

Fourth, approve on-track summaries. These are usually good to go with minimal editing. Skim them, check that nothing reads oddly, and send.

This whole sequence — for a squad of 30 — should take a fraction of the time you'd spend manually screening every athlete's calendar.

What the dashboard doesn't do

The Pre-Screen dashboard handles the screening — it tells you who needs attention and why. It doesn't make coaching decisions for you. Whether you adjust a programme, send a check-in message, or decide that a monitor-status athlete is actually fine, that's your call.

It also doesn't know things that aren't in the data. If an athlete mentioned in your last call that they're moving house this week, or that they've got a cold coming on, the dashboard won't know that. Your coaching context still matters — the dashboard just makes sure you're not spending your context on athletes who had a straightforward week.

For more on the screening-vs-coaching distinction and why it matters for scaling your squad, see How Many Athletes Can One Coach Realistically Manage?.

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