As a coach, you’re constantly expected to read the room and adjust your plan based on how the team is feeling. You need to connect with each athlete - who (on average) is less comfortable opening up than in the past.

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It’s a big problem! We’ve seen the mental health stats from the CDC showing over a third of young people are chronically depressed.

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Leading coaches have started to implement a daily check-in survey:

• It’s focused on athlete well being.
• They can see both individual responses and trends
• Coaches then prioritize which conversations to have on a given day.

It seems like a lot to do this successfully, but here’s how it works for my team on CrewLAB:

1. Everyone’s prompted daily by the app to record how they’re feeling and how they’ve slept.

2. This is encouraged by a streak and a summary - athletes learn to associate wellbeing with training, and over time they develop better habits.

3. It’s all aggregated in my coach dashboard under the “insights” tab - color coded to highlight at-risk athletes.

I get a pulse on everyone the team. Athletes become more mindful about their sleep, mood and more; and they’re already in the right place to check today’s schedule and get updates from the chat. That’s why on CrewLAB, check-ins are just the start.