How to Read Your Squad View
Your dashboard lists every athlete in your squad. For each one you see their most recent session, a badge per sport with a training status, how many active goals they have, whether they have sent you a message you have not read, and a Draft Email button. This guide explains the badges, because they are the part that carries a judgment.
The statuses are a classification Simma makes from an athlete's sessions. This guide says exactly what each one is computed from, so you can decide how much weight to give it.
What a status is made from
Each status is per sport. A triathlete has one for swimming, one for cycling and one for running, and they can differ.
The system reads the last sixteen weeks of an athlete's sessions in that sport. From them it derives two things it needs before it can classify anything:
- Their normal cadence. The typical gap between sessions for this athlete in this sport. A weekly swimmer and a daily runner have different clocks, and every "gone quiet" judgment is made against the athlete's own clock.
- Their form pattern. A form score per session from load against fitness, and the shape those scores make across recent sessions: oscillating, climbing, falling, flat.
- Their own zones. Once four weeks and four sessions exist, the athlete's own spread of form scores is cut into zones, so "deep" means deep for them. Before that, fixed zones are used.
Then it applies rules, in order. The status you see is the first rule that matched, with a short reason underneath it.
The statuses
Getting started (blue). Only one or two sessions recorded in this sport. There is no pattern to read yet.
Welcome back (blue). The athlete had a history in this sport, then a gap of more than fourteen days, and has now recorded sessions again. The first sessions back look harsh in the numbers. This badge says that is expected.
On track (green). Sessions are landing within the athlete's normal cadence and form is oscillating: stress, recovery, stress. This is what steady training looks like in the data.
Building (green). The same oscillation, sitting in the athlete's grind zone: regularly fatigued and still recovering between sessions, which is what a productive block looks like.
Recovering (green). Form has improved across the last two or more sessions after a hard stretch.
Monitor (amber). Something worth a look but not alarming on its own: form drifting down without being deep, unusually volatile swings, an athlete who came back from a break with several hard sessions rather than easing in, or a healthy rhythm sitting deep in the strain zone. The reason line says which.
Undertrained (amber). A flat pattern sitting in the decondition zone. They are showing up. The load is light for them.
Quiet (amber). Past their own normal gap by more than two days, with nothing recorded in the last seven. Due, not yet gone. A weekly swimmer reads as quiet from about day nine.
Disengaged (amber). The gap since their last session is more than two and a half times their normal cadence, with a floor of seven days. A daily runner reads as disengaged after three days, the weekly swimmer after about seventeen. If the athlete is active in their other sports, the reason says so, because a swimmer who has gone quiet in the pool during a cycling block is a different case from one who has gone quiet everywhere.
Overreaching (red). Three or more consecutive sessions with falling form and no recovery between them, while already in the strain or grind zone; or a flat pattern sitting in strain, which is sustained deep fatigue with no variation. These are the two shapes the system will call red on its own.
Inactive (grey). No sessions in this sport, or a gap of more than five times their normal cadence with a floor of twenty-one days. Inactive sports with no history are hidden from the badges.
What the badges do not know
They know sessions. They do not know that the athlete told you on Tuesday they had a cold, that the light week was planned, that the missed swims are because the pool is shut. An amber badge is a reason to look, not a conclusion, and a green badge does not mean there is nothing to say.
The Draft Email button on each row writes a draft from the same data. The reason under the badge is a good place to start a check-in from, whether or not you use the draft.
The same question, asked of your assistant
If you have the connector installed, "who in my squad needs attention this week?" returns the same statuses with the same reasons, and the assistant can go on to open an athlete, read their recent sessions and the message thread, and draft a message. Every Simma Connector Tool lists what you can ask. The web view and the assistant read the same record; neither has data the other lacks.
Want a different view of your squad?
The thresholds above are Simma's defaults: two and a half times cadence for disengaged, three falling sessions for overreaching. Training Status Explained sets out every rule in order.
If you want your assistant to answer a squad question these statuses do not cover, athletes whose easy pace is drifting, everyone within six weeks of an event, a status tuned differently for one athlete, email coaching@getsimma.com and tell us the question. We build tools from those.