Coach Hub user guide

1Getting started

Sign up, look around the sample squad, then bring in your own.

1. Create your account with your email and a password, then tap the link in the email we send you.
2. Have a look around. A Sample Squad (delete me) is added for you: 12 players and four testing days, so every chart and report has something in it. Open any app from the home screen and try it.
3. Bring in your own players from a spreadsheet (section 3), or add them in Squad Dash.
4. Run your first test with the Testing Station, then look at the results in Squad Dash.

When you're finished with the sample squad, delete it in Squad Dash.

• Pick one aerobic test and stick with it, so results compare from one testing day to the next.
• Retest every 6–8 weeks in pre-season, and two or three times across the season.
• No timing gates? That's fine: players without a top-speed test are set from MAS instead.

3Bring in your data

Your players and old results from Google Sheets or Excel, in a few minutes.

1. From the home screen, tap ⬆ Bring in your existing data.
2. Upload the file, or copy the cells in Google Sheets and paste them in.
3. Check how it was read: each column is matched to a name, squad, date or test. Fix anything that's wrong before you import.
4. Tap Import. Players already in Coach Hub are matched, not added twice.

4Testing Station

Testing day on your phone, with helpers on theirs.

1. Pick the squad and the test, then tap Start station.
2. Tap a player and type their result. Mark anyone missing as Absent.
3. For the beep test, tap ▶ Start test: the beeps play from the phone, and you tap each player out as they drop. Their score saves itself.
4. For the Bronco or a time trial, type the time and the app works out MAS.

5Squad Dash

The whole squad on one screen.

Tabs along the top:

• Charts and Squad table: pick a test and see everyone ranked, compared with last time and coloured against your standards.
• Enter results: type results in at a desk.
• Squad: add, edit or remove players and squads, and add your club crest.
• ASR profile: each player's MAS, top speed and the reserve between them.
• RAST: repeated-sprint results and fatigue.
• Standards: what counts as Excellent, Good or Average for youth, teen and adult squads. Use ours or set your own.
• Tests: add your own test (e.g. RSI or max pull-ups) with its unit, and whether higher or lower is better.
• Cloud & data: sync, import and export.

6Player Dash

One player's story, in one tap.

• Choose a player; step through the squad with the arrows.
• The tiles at the top show their key tests, with the change since last time.
• Trend charts show every test over time, with the squad average alongside.
• Athlete report PDF makes a clean report to give the player or a parent.

7OffFeet Conditioning

Fitness without the pounding: rower, bike erg / Wattbike and assault bike.

1. Add players, then add their machine tests (peak power, 30 s, MAP, critical power and time trials). Each test unlocks more of their profile.
2. Their profile shows strengths and weaknesses in plain English, and their own training zones in watts.
3. Use New session or New block to build training from those zones, and PDF to share it.

8Strength Block Programmer

A whole squad's gym block, in one pass.

1. Pick the squad and two to four main lifts (players need a tested 3RM for each).
2. Choose a model for each lift, such as linear, block or undulating. 📖 Model guide explains each one.
3. Set your mesocycles and check the shape of intensity and volume on the chart.
4. Accept, move or skip the suggested deload weeks.
5. Generate squad program: every player gets their own weights, rounded to usable plate jumps.

Save PDF — squad sheet for the gym wall, or Save PDF — a page per player.

9Running Block Builder

From the test results to the cones: every rep set to each player.

The first time you open it

Your squads, players and their aerobic and speed test results come across from Squad Dash by themselves, and a sample block is planned for the sample squad so you can see a finished plan. If you test again later, use Settings → Import → Check for new results to bring the new results in.

Plan a block

1. Tap Plan, then New block.
2. Pick the squad, the type of block (pre-season, in-season, speed, an individual player or return to play), the start date, your training nights and how many minutes you have.
3. Add your fixtures: the hard running moves away from match days.
4. Every session for the block is drafted, with the players split into groups by fitness and each group's distance worked out.

Set up on your pitch in minutes

This is what saves you time on a training night. Every session card is drawn on your own GAA pitch, and every cone is placed off a line that's already painted: the 13, 20, 45, 65 or halfway. A card reads like "Cone 1 m short of the 20 line at the far end", so there's no measuring tape and no maths at the side of the pitch.

1. Add your pitch once in Settings → Pitches: the length and width, and the lines if they're not standard. Add the back pitch or the astro too (an astro has no lines, so pick full, ¾, ½ and so on on the night and cones are measured from your end).
2. Give each squad its home pitch and its usual minutes for running (Squads → edit). You can change the pitch or the minutes on the night.
3. Put the cones out: one colour per group, at the spot on the card. Each group knows its colour, so players find their own cone.
4. Run it: the session fits the minutes you gave it, so it slots in around the hurling or football.

Sessions

• Calendar shows the week. Tap + on a day for a quick one-off session for a squad or one player.
• Open a session to see the groups, distances and the cones on your pitch. Print / PDF or Share image to send it to the players or other coaches.
• Shuttles: long runs that don't fit the pitch can be split into shuttles. The turns are already allowed for, and the card tells you how often to blow the whistle (every 40 seconds, say) so players know when they should reach each cone.
• Tap Done after the session and confirm who was there, so the training load counts.

Speed

Speed sessions come from the TCP speed programmes (pre-season, in-season and juvenile). Speed always goes first, straight after the warm-up. Flying sprints show each player's target time from their top speed.

Nudge MAS

If it's been 5–6 weeks or more since a player's last test and they're still making their cones too easily over several sessions, Nudge MAS adds a little to their MAS (0.25 km/h by default) so their distances get longer. Players often make the cones easily early in a block just by pacing well, so that alone isn't a reason to nudge. Tick only the players who have been training regularly. A nudge is an estimate: it never changes the test results in Squad Dash or Player Dash, and the next real test replaces it.

• For players: the athlete report (Player Dash), off-feet results with their zones (OffFeet), and their own gym programme (Strength).
• For the squad: squad comparison and beep-test norms (Squad Dash), the squad strength sheet, and running session cards.
• For management: ratings against age standards and change over the season, with your club crest.

11Your data, helpers and help

• Your data is yours. Each coach sees only their own squads. Coach Hub stores birth month and year only, never a full date of birth.
• Export or delete everything from the home screen under Your data.
• Helpers (other coaches or parents helping on testing day) can be added by email. They see names only and record results in the Testing Station; you see who entered what.
• Need a hand? Email timcaseyperformance@gmail.com. A screenshot of the problem helps.

See also the Privacy Policy and Terms.