Import your athlete roster into NoteFit by chat
What stops people moving tools is almost never the new tool — it is having to retype the whole roster. With the assistant connected, you paste the file you already have and it creates every athlete in one call.
1.The roster is the cost of switching
Anyone coaching twenty-five people has twenty-five names, dates of birth, goals and notes spread across a spreadsheet, another platform, or both. Typing that by hand into somewhere new is an evening of work, and it is the most common reason people stay where they are long after the tool stopped fitting.
It is a cost with nothing to do with training, and it is exactly the kind of mechanical work an assistant with access to your account can take off the table.
2.Paste the file and let it work
Export what you have — almost everything exports CSV — and paste it into the conversation with a line like "create these athletes in my account". The assistant reads the columns, maps them to the fields and creates them all in a single call.
The rows are independent, and that matters more than it sounds. If three of the twenty-five are malformed — an impossible date, an empty name — the other twenty-two are created anyway, and the three come back with their row number and the reason. You fix those and retry only those, instead of starting again.
3.How to prepare the file (barely)
The temptation is to tidy the file first. It is worth more to paste it as it is: the assistant copes with oddly named columns, different orders and fields that are simply absent. What it genuinely needs is to know which column is the name; the rest is welcome and optional.
Two things do pay off: removing people who no longer train with you, so you do not import a roster bigger than the real one, and saying in one line what a column is when the headers are cryptic. "The OBJ column is the goal" saves a round of questions.
4.What to do straight after
Importing the athletes is half of it. The other half is not writing the same plan twenty-five times: build one good week for one of them, save it as a template and have it applied to the others. The assistant does that in a sentence, and applying is additive — it appends to what the week already holds and deletes nothing. If it is each of their first mesocycle, better still — the template gives them the same starting structure and you adjust the training volume afterwards for whoever needs more or less.
Then ask for the summary: who ended up with no week planned, whose week is empty. That is the check that catches the athlete lost in the middle of an import, and it is faster than opening them one by one.
Tools
Open the calculatorWeekly volume calculator: sets per muscle group
Pick the week’s exercises, set the sets and see how many sets each muscle receives — no account needed.
Guides
Import your training history from a notebook into NoteFit
Years of training written by hand or in a spreadsheet, into NoteFit by chat: photograph the pages, the assistant reads them and creates the blocks, dated.
Read the guideAI for personal trainers: what it actually saves
What AI saves a coach with 10 to 30 athletes — and it is not writing the programme. It is the weekly upkeep, which is where the time goes.
Read the guideFrequently asked questions
What columns does the file need?
Only the name is genuinely required. Date of birth, goal, notes and measurements come in if they exist and stay empty if they do not — you can add them later without repeating the import.
What if I import twice by mistake?
You get duplicates, because creating is creating. Before repeating an import, ask for the list of athletes and check what is already there; it is one sentence and it saves the cleanup.
Can I import from another platform?
If it exports CSV, yes — it is the format that matters, not the origin. If it only exports PDF or nothing at all, you can still paste the text into the conversation, but then it is worth checking the result more carefully.
Does this delete anything I already have?
No. An import only creates. The connector’s write tools are mostly additive, and writes run with your own session, so the app’s permissions still apply.