Coach guide
For coaches running sessions and squads
about 8 min to read
IDPlans gives you one screen each day for what's on and who's available, a planner for building sessions from your own exercise library, and monitoring that turns your players' check-ins into load and availability you can act on.
1.Start with Home
Home is the daily driver. Pick a day on the week rail and a team, and you have the session and the squad in one place.
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The session card
Today's session, with a quick editor for title, theme, load and parts. Add another session for double days.
Open /home → - 2
Availability
Tap a chip to mark a player available, modified or out. The headcount updates live, so you know what you're working with before you walk out.
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Call-ups
Short on numbers? Pull a player in from another team for that session only — their load still tracks back to their own record.
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Send to players
Shares the session so it appears on their Today screen, and pushes a notification to those who've enabled it.
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Print it
PDF gives you a clean field sheet — diagrams, cues, kit and bibs — named for the team, session and date.
2.Build your exercise library
The library is yours and your club's. It's what makes session building fast later.
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Add exercises
Name, objective, how it runs, coaching cues, equipment and constraints like players and area.
Open /planner/library → - 2
Draw or photograph
Sketch a drill on the pitch canvas, or upload a photo of a whiteboard or a page from a book.
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Tag them
Tags are how an exercise surfaces later against a session's theme. A few minutes tagging saves hunting every week.
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Bulk import
Already have a library in a spreadsheet? Import CSV brings the lot in at once, and you can add diagrams later.
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Look before you pick
Click any exercise to see it full size — diagram, setup and cues — without opening the editor.
3.Plan a season, not just a week
Periodization sounds heavier than it is: describe a typical week once, and the planner stamps it across the season for you to adjust.
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Create a plan
Team, name, start and end dates. Guided setup walks you through it.
Open /planner/plans → - 2
Describe a typical week
Tick the training days and sketch what each one is — a Tuesday pitch session, a Thursday gym session. Days can hold more than one session.
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Add fixtures
Matches and events drive the match-relative rules, so 'the day before a game' means something.
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Generate the weeks
This is the step people miss — the pattern is only a template until you hit Generate weeks. 'Fill empty days' is the safe option; it never touches what you've already built.
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Then adjust
Open any day in the Planner calendar to build it properly: pick exercises per part, ranked by how well they fit that day's focus.
Sessions you create by hand are kept when you regenerate a plan — only the generated ones are replaced.
4.Monitoring: turning check-ins into decisions
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Attendance and RPE
Mark who trained and what they rated the session. That's what produces training load.
Open /monitoring/sessions → - 2
Watch the trends
Acute vs chronic load shows who's spiking. Wellness flags show who's reporting poor sleep or high soreness.
Open /monitoring/trends → - 3
Availability board
The squad at a glance — who's fit, who's modified, who's out, and who hasn't checked in for a few days.
Open /monitoring/availability → - 4
Nudge people
Chase missing check-ins with one button rather than a group chat message nobody reads.
5.Reports
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Create a draft
Pick a player and a template. Physical test scores are pulled in automatically from Testing.
Open /reports → - 2
Let the player contribute
If a section is marked for the player, they get a prompt on their Today screen to fill in their side before you publish.
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Choose a few focus areas
Three is plenty. The player sees these first, and they're what the next block of training should be about.
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Publish
The player — and their parent, where set up — can then read it. Anything you left blank simply doesn't appear.
