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Athletes and phone data

Athletes are the people whose training you follow. Their data comes from the cronowiz app on their phone: runs, strength sessions, heart rate, measurements, video analyses. An athlete can be linked to a gym member, but they are two separate things.

How to add an athlete

There is no "New athlete" form: an athlete is created by importing their first backup from the cronowiz app. You can change the name later in Athlete settings.

In the cronowiz app on their phone, the athlete exports a backup and sends you the .cwbackup file (by email, chat or USB stick).
Open Import in the menu and drag the file into the box, or press Browse….
If the backup is protected, type the passphrase the athlete chose and press Decrypt.
The Import preview shows how many sessions are new, updated or unchanged.
Choose New athlete and enter the name (the profile name is suggested), or Existing athlete if you are updating someone already there.
Press Apply import. At the end you will find Open athlete →.
For a new athlete the program asks Create a member profile too?: answer Yes, create member if they train at the gym.

When updating an athlete who is already there, choose Existing athlete, or import from their own page (next section). Choosing "New athlete" creates a duplicate: every backup from the app carries a new identifier and the program cannot tell on its own that it is the same person.

Updating an athlete's data

There are three ways. All of them merge new sessions with the existing ones, without duplicates.

Way	When to use it	Internet needed
File (Overview or Athlete settings → Import backup)	the athlete sends you the file	No
QR (Athlete settings → Show QR)	the athlete is with you, phone in hand	Yes
Code (Athlete settings → Receive via sync)	the athlete is elsewhere and reads you a code	Yes

With every import, the athlete's training plans, settings and measurements are replaced by those on the phone. If you edited a plan in Studio, send it to the athlete first (see Training), or the next import will put it back as it was.

Receiving data with a QR code

Open the athlete → Athlete settings → Data management box → Show QR.
The athlete scans the QR with the cronowiz app. No passphrase to type: it is in the QR.
The status goes from "Waiting for the athlete…" to "Athlete connected, transferring…" and at the end tells you how many sessions were saved.

The QR refreshes every minute and stops after about 5 minutes: if the athlete did not make it in time, press Regenerate.

Receiving data with a code

In the cronowiz app the athlete starts a sync, choosing to send their data, and gives you the code (for example AB3K7Q).
Open the athlete → Athlete settings → Receive via sync, type the code in Session code and press Connect.
When the transfer is done, type the passphrase the athlete set in the app and press Decrypt and import.

The code works once and for about 5 minutes. The limit is 50 MB per transfer: for very long histories use the file.

Importing a .fit file (Garmin, Coros, Suunto…)

Open the athlete → Cardio → Import from device.
Drag or choose one .fit file exported from the watch, Garmin Connect or Strava (the "original file").
Check the preview (sport, date, distance, time, heart rate) and press Import.

Cardio activities only (running, walking, cycling), one file at a time, for an athlete who already exists.
Importing the same file again creates no duplicates. The same workout arriving both from the cronowiz app and from a .fit, however, shows up twice.
GPX, TCX and zip archives are not supported.

Linking athlete and member

In the Overview or Athlete settings, Gym member box: Create member creates a member with the same name and links it; Link to existing member searches the members not yet linked. Each athlete links to one member only.

The link brings the athlete's workouts into the gym reports and into the "Fewer workouts" sign for members at risk.

The athlete list and overview

An athlete overview with indicators, form chart, weekly load and calendar

Athletes (at the top of the menu) shows a card per athlete with sessions, distance, time and two numbers: Fitness (condition built over recent weeks) and Form (green = ready, amber = caution, red = fatigued).
Click to open the Overview: totals, form chart, weekly load, distance by sport, estimated VO2max, body weight, tonnage by muscle group, an 8-week activity map, the month calendar and the latest sessions.
In the calendar, click a day to list its sessions; click a session to open it.

Athlete settings

Name: saved when you leave the field.
Physiological profile (age, sex, weight, height): comes from the app and is read-only here.
Thresholds: max HR, resting HR, threshold HR and threshold pace. The program estimates them from the data ("auto"); you can correct them ("manual") and go back to the estimate with re-estimate. Max HR drives heart-rate zones and load: set it if you know it.
Muscle group mapping: fix the group assigned to an exercise if the automatic classification gets it wrong.
Delete athlete: permanently removes the athlete and all their sessions. Single sessions cannot be deleted.