Training Profiles & Stats — Working on One Thing at a Time

If you've ever taken a lesson, you know how it goes: your coach gives you one thing to work on — usually one specific feel or one specific position — and tells you to grind on it for the next month. Training Profiles are how MotionEdge tracks that one thing across every swing you take, automatically grades whether you're nailing it or not, and lets the AI Coach build feedback around your stated goal instead of giving you generic advice.

This article covers what profiles are, how to create one, how to read the stats they generate, and what "Active Profile" means when you see it on a swing.

What is a Training Profile?

A Training Profile is a named goal — like "Shallow the transition", "Steady tempo at 3:1", "Quiet upper body in the backswing" — paired with the specific measurements that tell us whether you hit it or not.

When a profile is active:

• Apple Watch gives you live tempo or hand-speed feedback at the range matched to that goal
• Every swing you capture gets graded against the profile's thresholds (not just the default thresholds)
• The AI Coach knows what you're working on and frames responses around the profile rather than throwing general critique at every swing
• Session Stats and Training Stats show you trend lines specific to the profile's metrics, so you can see whether you're actually getting closer

Think of it like setting a north star for a session, week, or month of practice. Without a profile, MotionEdge measures everything; with one, it measures everything and tells you specifically whether the thing you cared about is improving.

Where to find profiles

Settings → Training Profiles.

The screen shows the list of profiles you've created, plus a few defaults to get you started, and a + button to add a new one. Tap any profile to edit its name, the metrics it tracks, and the thresholds for each metric.

The currently-active profile is highlighted at the top of the list. Switching active profiles is a single tap.

How a profile is structured

Each profile has:

• A name — the thing you're working on, in your own words ("Slow my backswing", "Hands inside on the downswing")
• One or more metrics it tracks — picked from MotionEdge's full set (tempo ratio, hand path grade, hand speed, release quality, spine tilt loss, etc.)
• Custom grade thresholds for each tracked metric — what counts as Green, Yellow, Red for this profile. Often tighter than the default thresholds, because if you're explicitly working on tempo, "close to Tour ratio" matters more than the default "any sensible ratio."
• Optional Watch settings — for tempo profiles, the Watch can chime at your target ratio so you feel the rhythm; for hand-speed profiles, it can show live speed during practice swings

The defaults that ship with the app cover common scenarios — tempo work, transition shallow, peak hand speed development, release timing. They're a fine starting point; clone one and tweak the thresholds as you learn what works for your swing.

What "Active" means on a swing

In Video Review, the Training Profile panel shows the profile that was active when the swing was recorded. It's read-only — you can see what you were working on at the time of the swing, but switching the active profile after the fact doesn't retroactively change the swing's data.

This matters because:

• You can see, on a swing you captured 3 weeks ago, what your goal was that day
• The grade circles you see on the swing reflect that profile's thresholds, not whatever profile is active right now
• The AI Coach reading that swing knows what you were working on at the time

If you switch profiles mid-session, swings before the switch use the old profile and swings after use the new one. There's no need to "freeze" a profile — it's automatic per-swing.

Reading the Training Stats screen

Session Stats has a Training tab that shows the per-swing grade history for whatever metrics your currently-active training profile tracks.

What you see:

• The metric name(s) the profile tracks across the top
• One row per swing in the session with each metric's value and grade circle (green / yellow / red)
• A trend indicator — are you getting better at this metric across the session, or are your scores drifting?
• Summary at the top — how many greens, yellows, reds; what your best/worst values were

The point of this view is signal vs noise: if your profile is "shallow transition" and you're seeing more greens late in a range bucket than early, you're getting it. If you're seeing more reds, the feel you tried isn't working. Either way, you have actionable data, not just a vague "did I improve?" feeling.

The grading is based on whatever profile was active when each swing was captured. Switch profiles partway through a session and the Training Stats tab shows two different sets of grades — one per profile.

Working with the AI Coach + profiles

When a profile is active, the AI Coach reads it as part of every swing analysis. So when you ask "how was that swing?", the AI isn't just looking at the swing in isolation — it's evaluating it against your stated goal. The response shifts from generic ("your tempo is 3.2, which is good") to goal-anchored ("your tempo hit your 3:1 target on 7 of the last 10 swings, but the last 3 drifted toward 2.7 — you're rushing the transition again").

This is the difference between a coach who watches you swing once and one who knows what you've been working on for the last month. Use it.

For "swing change project" conversations in the AI Coach tab, reference the profile explicitly: "How is my work on the Shallow Transition profile going across this week?" — the AI will pull the relevant swing history and grade against the profile's specific thresholds.

Building a profile that actually helps

A few tips after working with profiles for a while:

• Name it the way you'd say it out loud. "Don't slide my hips" is a better profile name than "Lateral Hip Translation Reduction." Future-you reading it on a swing card needs to understand it in a glance.
• Track 1–2 metrics, not 5. A profile with too many metrics dilutes the signal. The point is to focus on the one thing.
• Set thresholds tighter than default. If you're working on tempo, a 3.5 isn't "yellow, mild concern" — for this goal it's "I missed." Make the thresholds reflect your real target.
• Switch profiles weekly or monthly, not per session. You don't learn a feel in one bucket of balls; give yourself enough swings to see the trend.
• Archive old profiles instead of deleting. When you've genuinely changed a swing pattern, retire the profile but keep it visible — the historical swings still reference it, and you can re-activate it if the old pattern creeps back.

What profiles are NOT

To set expectations:

• They don't dictate the swing. A profile is your goal — the app doesn't enforce it or block swings that don't match.
• They don't change capture behavior. Recording, detection, video quality — all of that is independent of which profile is active.
• They don't replace the default grades. Every swing still gets the standard Tempo Ratio, Hand Path, etc. grades. The profile just overlays your targeted measurement.
• They're not shared. Each user / device has their own profiles. If a coach builds a profile for you on their device, you'll need to recreate it on yours (or we'll add sharing in a future release — it's tracked).

Within those limits, profiles are the single feature that turns MotionEdge from "video analysis app" into "practice partner that knows what you're working on."

See also: Tempo Ratio for one of the most common profile metrics. Hand Path Grading for the over-the-top metric that's often the focus of a "shallow" profile. Apple Watch Overview for the Watch's role in live feedback against a profile. AI Coach for how the AI uses your active profile when analyzing swings.