The VDOT Coach Marketplace is a platform designed to connect runners with professional coaches who use the V.O2 platform. The marketplace allows runners of all levels to find a coach that suits their needs, whether they are training for a specific race, looking to improve their fitness, or seeking personalized guidance.
Key Features of the VDOT Coach Marketplace:
- Access to Professional Coaches: Runners can browse through a list of certified VDOT coaches, each with detailed profiles that include their coaching experience, specialties, and rates.
- Integration with V.O2: All training is integrated with the V.O2 platform, which tracks the athlete’s progress and adjusts workouts according to their fitness level.
Types of Products
- Personalized Training Plans: Coaches create customized training plans based on the V.O2 system, which is rooted in scientifically-backed principles of endurance training.
- Personal and Support: The platform facilitates ongoing communication between the coach and the athlete, allowing for adjustments to the training plan and providing motivational support.
- Automated Training Plans: Coaches can make their templates available for athletes to purchase training plans. Athletes can then self-select which days they’d like to run, complete quality sessions or take days off of running.
Setting up a Marketplace Account
This marketplace is ideal for runners looking to elevate their training with the help of expert coaching, leveraging the science-based approach of the VDOT O2 system.
Product Set-Up
Product Options:
Private Coaching: Private coaching is a one-on-one monthly subscription that allows coaches to provide and modify weekly training for athletes as well as communicate regularly about training progress.
To set up this product:
- Create a “Coaching Subscription”
- Complete the product options
- Important: Do not select “Template Based Plan,” as this will generate automated plans from your templates and prevent regular communication with athletes.
Personalized training plans: Personalized Training plans allow athletes to fill out a survey about an upcoming race or a specific training objective.
To set up this product:
- Create a “Training Plan”
- Complete the product options
- Important: Do not select “Template Based Plan,” as this will generate automated plans from your templates and prevent regular communication with athletes.
Automated Subscription: An automated subscription allows athletes to have access to training plans within a training focus that you’ve created. You can choose which plans will be available for athletes to select.
To set up this product (Watch Video):
- Create a “Coaching Subscription”
- Complete the product options
- Important: Select “Template Based Plan,” This will allow athletes to select your plans from your templates.
- Create Training focuses and choose which templates belong in the various training focuses.
- When athletes purchase a subscription, they will have access to your templates and the app will allow them to modify which days they would like to run, complete quality sessions, etc.
- Athletes will receive the upcoming 4 weeks of training at a time.
- Athletes will be billed monthly until they cancel.
Automated Training: An automated subscription allows athletes to purchase a training that you’ve created. You can choose which plans will be available for athletes to select for each product.
To set up this product (Watch Video):
- Create a “Training Plan”
- Complete the product options
- Important: Select “Template Based Plan,” This will allow athletes to select your plans from your templates.
- Create Training focuses and choose which templates belong in the various training focuses.
- When athletes purchase an automated plan, they will the app will allow them to modify which days they would like to run, complete quality sessions, etc.
- Athletes will be billed once and the entire plan will be sent to their V.O2 Calendar.
Coupons
Coaches can generate coupons using Stripe. Keep in mind that there are price minimums on the marketplace products that your subscriptions and training plans cannot go below and this includes coupons decreasing the price below the minimums. If you make a coupon, you can test your coupon on product check-out to ensure that coupon is valid.