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Not every coach plans in rigid four-week blocks. If your coaching style is more fluid, or if you simply need to prescribe a quick, one-off recovery session, Relay gives you the flexibility to program day-by-day. This section covers how to assign single workouts directly to an individual, along with our recommended workflow for keeping on-the-fly programming scalable for larger groups. By the end of it, you’ll know how to manage immediate training needs without losing the ability to edit in bulk.

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Option 1: Direct to the athlete calendar

If you just need to give one specific athlete a workout for today, you can bypass the program builder entirely and drop it right onto their schedule. How it works:
  1. Navigate to the Athletes tab in your sidebar.
  2. Click on the specific athlete to open their profile and view their individual calendar.
  3. Select the day you want them to train.
  4. Build the workout directly on that day (add your exercises, sets, and reps).
  5. Click Save. The workout is immediately live for the athlete.
Behind the scenes: When you assign a workout this way, Relay automatically creates a custom program called “Quick Workouts” in the background for that athlete. This ensures their data stays organized and tracked, even when the workout isn’t part of a larger macrocycle.

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Option 2: The “Continuous Master” approach

Option 1 is great for a single athlete. However, if you prefer to program day-by-day for a group of athletes, assigning workouts individually will quickly become tedious. You lose the ability to make bulk updates. To maintain flexibility while saving time, we recommend using an “Empty Master” program. How to set it up:
  1. Go to the Programs tab and create a new program (e.g., “In-Season Training”).
  2. Assign the program immediately, even if it is completely empty or only has the very first workout built. Use your tags to assign it to the relevant group of athletes.
  3. Now, whenever you are ready to write the next workout, open your “In-Season Daily Training” master program.
  4. Build the single workout for the upcoming day.
  5. Click Synchronize.
The Payoff: By using this method, the athletes still receive their workouts day-by-day, exactly how you like to coach. But because the workouts live inside a master program, you only have to build the workout once, and the Synchronize button pushes it to the calendars of every assigned athlete simultaneously. This gives you the ultimate flexibility of on-the-fly programming, backed by the scale of a structured system.