A useful article often finds you before you need it. You might be reading between practices when a coaching tip catches your attention, or exploring a skill when an explanation finally makes something click. You recognise its value, but your next session is still days away. By the time you want to use it, you may have forgotten where you found it.
Whether you are planning your next practice or working on a skill, the Ascend app gives you a place to explore content and keep helpful ideas close at hand. With the Favourites feature in the app, you can save articles that matter to your goals and return to them when you are ready to put what you have learned into action. All you need to do is press the ‘star’ icon and the article automatically becomes part of your Favourites folder.
Keeping that content within reach helps you carry an idea from the moment you discover it to the moment you can put it into practice.
Give Good Ideas Somewhere to Go
Coaches are constantly gathering ideas. An article might offer a different way to explain a movement, encourage participation, or approach a challenging conversation with an athlete. Some ideas fit immediately into your plans, while others need the right opportunity.
Saving an article gives you somewhere to keep that possibility. If your team is working on communication, for example, you can save relevant coaching guidance and return to it before your next practice. Reading it again with your athletes’ needs in mind can help you decide which advice is useful and how to adapt it to your group.
Your Favourites folder can also support preparation across several sessions. As a team’s goals develop, you can gather articles that connect with those priorities. Having them together makes it easier to revisit an approach, refresh your understanding, and bring a considered idea into practice.
Build a Resource for Your Own Development
For athletes, useful information can become more meaningful as training progresses. An explanation that seems straightforward when you first read it may raise new questions once you have tried the skill yourself.
Saving that article allows you to return with experience. You might notice a detail you overlooked, understand an instruction more clearly, or find language for a question you want to ask your coach. Reading becomes part of an ongoing exchange between learning about a skill and practising it.
Your saved content can reflect what you are working towards, whether that means understanding technique, developing confidence, or finding a more thoughtful approach to preparation. As your priorities change, the articles you choose to save can change with them.
Turn a Saved Article Into a Useful Action
The value of Favourites grows when you make a habit of returning to what you have saved. Before a practice, take a few minutes to open your folder and revisit an article connected to the session ahead.
Choose one idea to explore. A coach might try a different explanation during a drill, while an athlete might bring a specific question to training. Keeping the action manageable gives you room to observe what happens and decide whether the approach helps.
Afterwards, you can return to the article and consider it alongside your experience. Did the advice fit the situation? Does it need adapting? Is there something you understand differently now? Those questions help connect the information you read with the decisions you make.
Keep Your Goals Close
Ascend gives you the option curate. Start with the content that speaks to a current goal, answers a question, or offers something you would like to explore. A thoughtful selection gives you a useful place to return when you need guidance or inspiration.
Over time, your Favourites folder can grow alongside your training, bringing together ideas that remain relevant as you learn and develop.
Next time an article in the Ascend app gives you something to think about, tap the star. Keep it within reach, revisit it with purpose, and give that idea a chance to shape your own next practice.
