Sharing your training with a coach
Coaching data belongs to the athlete, not to the coach's spreadsheet. Here's how access works in Eccentric — you keep the account, you invite them in, and you grant one kind of access at a time. Letting a coach write your programme does not let them see your sleep.
Most coaching software gets the ownership backwards. The coach holds the account, the athlete is a row inside it, and when the relationship ends the athlete leaves with nothing — no history, no loads, no record of what worked. This works, but it doesn't give the athelete any feeling of ownership over their training nor the ability to review their perfromance over time.
Eccentric is built the other way round. The athelete owns their account. A coach is someone you invite into it, with access you choose, that you can withdraw. If you stop working together, your training doesn't go anywhere; theirs does.
Access is granted one kind at a time
There are six kinds of access, and each is granted on its own:
- Author plans — create and edit training plans
- Comment — comment on sessions, plans and exercises
- Log sessions — log or import completed workouts
- View analytics — progress and performance analytics
- View context — sleep, HRV, readiness, bodyweight
- Manage members — invite people, assign and revoke access
View context is never bundled into anything else. It is the one marked sensitive, and it is the one that stays off unless you deliberately turn it on. A coach who can author your plans has not thereby been given your health data — that is a separate switch.
The presets
Four presets cover the usual shapes, and each one is just a set of the switches above:
- Coach — author plans, comment, log sessions, view analytics. No biometric access.
- Coach + context — the same, plus sleep, HRV, readiness and bodyweight.
- Reviewer — a read-only second opinion: comment and analytics only.
- Manager — coach access plus the ability to manage other members.
Inviting someone
Members → Invite member. Pick what they should be able to do, and either send it to an email address or generate a shareable link and pass it on however you like. The line under the picker spells out in plain words what you are about to grant, before you grant it.
They accept, and they show up in the matrix.
What a coach can actually do
With Author plans, a coach writes into your account — the plan appears on your phone, under Plans, like any other. With Comment, they can leave notes on a session, a plan or a specific exercise, and you get notified.
The one worth calling out is Propose changes. Rather than silently rewriting next week, a coach can send changes as a proposal: you see what would change, item by item, and accept or decline each one. The programme still moves, but nothing changes under you without your saying so.
And if a coach points an AI assistant at your account, it inherits exactly the access they have — no more. An assistant working on behalf of someone with Coach access cannot read your sleep data, for the same reason the coach can't.
Taking it back
Revoke on the member card ends it, immediately. Access changes are logged — Access history on the Members page shows what was granted or withdrawn and when — and both sides get notified when access changes, so nothing moves quietly.
Your history stays. The plans they wrote stay. What ends is their ability to see and change anything new.
If you're the coach
The same model, from the other side. Each athlete owns their account and invites you in, and you switch between them from the account switcher in the sidebar; a banner shows whose account you're currently in, so you never write into the wrong one.
That's more than a safety rail — it means every athlete's equipment, working loads, saved curves and effort history live in their account rather than in your notes. Nothing to migrate when you take someone on, nothing to hand back when you stop.
Short version: you keep the account, you grant one kind of access at a time, and your health data stays yours unless you say otherwise.
New to the trainer? Start with the getting-started guide — build a plan, record it, read it — then come back and hand it to someone.
Train on purpose.
Eccentric turns what your equipment records into progress you can read. It's free to start.