For most people, IntervalCoach is the coach. The AI rewrites your plan overnight, picks today's workout from how you're recovering, and answers your questions in Coach+ in between.
But sometimes you still want a human peeking over your shoulder — someone who's coached people through the same race, the same plateau, the same injury comeback, and can tell you the thing the AI can't quite know yet. That's what Coach Mode is for.
What's in it
A coach can be invited two ways: by email, or with a one-time link. Either side can send the invite. The athlete picks whether the coach gets full access or just view-only.
View-only means the coach can read everything the athlete can — dashboard, weekly plan, calendar, activity history, analytics, and the Coach+ chat thread. It's the "second pair of eyes" mode.
Full access means the coach can also edit the weekly plan, swap or modify workouts, change the goal event, and adjust training preferences. Every change is attributed and shows up in the athlete's history. Nothing happens silently.
Coach+ chat is shared. If the athlete asked the AI a question on Tuesday, the coach can read the answer on Wednesday and follow up. The next plan generation sees both sides of that conversation.
There's no cap on the number of athletes a coach can be linked to.
What it costs
Coach Mode is free for coaches. No platform fee, no setup fee, no per-athlete fee.
The athlete pays €8/month for Max — the same Max subscription any IntervalCoach athlete pays for, with the same Coach+ allowance, the same analytics, the same daily-adapting plan. The coach connecting to that account doesn't change the price for either side.
How it splits
The coach sees the same dashboard the athlete sees. Same readiness card, same weekly plan, same activity history, same analytics — not a separate coach view, the actual athlete view. That's deliberate: you and your coach are reading the same thing, which makes it harder to drift apart.
Coach+ is shared the same way. If you ask the AI a question on Tuesday and the coach reads the answer on Wednesday, they can correct it, expand it, or just sit with it. One conversation, not two parallel ones.
Where the coach shapes the AI is through coaching instructions — free-text guidance the coach writes that the AI reads every time it picks today's workout or generates next week's plan. "Sarah is building toward a hilly century in eight weeks; bias sweet spot over VO2 right now." That kind of thing. The instruction lives in the athlete's settings and gets pulled into every daily and weekly generation, so the coach's voice ends up in every plan — not only the ones they edit by hand.
Who it's for
Coaches working with a handful of athletes — cyclists, runners, triathletes — who want to be in the loop on the AI plan their athlete is following, edit it where they have something to add, and talk training in the same place the athlete is asking the AI questions.
If you want to try it, sign in, head to Settings → Coach, and send an invite. The new /coaches page has the longer how-it-works.
— Martijn