Coach Focus: why some sources matter more for your training

Where Coach Focus comes from

Focus is neither set manually nor invented by the model — it is derived deterministically from your athlete profile using transparent rules:

• Sports and their proportions — for example, running 60% · cycling 40%. Directly relevant running and cycling sources rank higher.
• Training phase — base, specific preparation, race build, taper, recovery or off-season. Your race calendar determines it: eight weeks out and two weeks out call for different material.
• Contextual topics — such as recovery or training methodology when your current situation calls for them.

The Why? button beside the focus chips explains exactly which profile settings produced the current result. Change your sports or goal and Focus recalculates, with a Focus updated note explaining what changed.

How Focus shapes recommendations

Sources whose tags match Focus are labelled in focus and receive higher retrieval priority during plan generation and morning reviews. This is a ranking adjustment, not a filter: the rest of the library remains available.

Chat retrieval is broader. If you explicitly ask about skiing while Focus is set to running and cycling, the coach will retrieve and use skiing material. Focus defines what matters by default; a direct question takes precedence.

Your controls

1

Personal source weighting: ×0.5–×2

Every book has a weighting control: ×0.5 de-emphasises it, ×1.5 marks it as important, and ×2 makes it central. You might de-emphasise a skiing manual for the summer or prioritise a particular running book. The weight applies only to that source and is visible in search results.

2

Manual tag editing

For sources you upload, sport and training-phase tags can be corrected in the expanded source card if automatic tagging gets them wrong. These tags determine whether a source enters Focus.

3

Profile and goals

Your profile is the strongest control: sports and their proportions, upcoming races and coach mode. Focus follows these inputs rather than developing a life of its own.

What Focus does not do

• It never overrides medical constraints. Health constraints sit above every setting: no source weight or focus can make the coach propose something unsafe.
• It does not disable sources. Material outside Focus remains searchable; it is simply less likely to rank first.
• It does not replace your data. Focus selects which evidence to draw on; decisions still depend on your training, recovery and goal.

Read the Knowledge base guide for the full library architecture, or Source citations to verify an individual recommendation.