Nutrition programs are built as a set of days ("Training Day," "Rest Day," "Game Day," and so on). With calendar scheduling, you decide which day appears on any given date, and it loads for your athlete automatically.
This article walks you through setting up recurring weekly defaults, overriding individual dates, and understanding what your athletes see.
Finding the Calendar tab
Open the nutrition program you want to schedule. On the program detail page, you'll see a new Calendar tab between the Nutrition and Assigned Members tabs.
Before you start, add your days first. Scheduling controls only appear once your program has at least one nutrition day. If the program is empty, the Calendar tab prompts you to add days on the Nutrition tab before you can schedule anything.
Everything you set on this tab saves the moment you make a selection. There's no save button to hit.
Two ways to schedule days
There are two cards on the Calendar tab, and they work together:
Select Defaults sets a recurring weekly pattern (for example, every Monday is a Training Day). Choose this when your week follows a consistent rhythm.
Individual Dates pins a specific day to a specific date, overriding the recurring pattern (for example, this Saturday is a Game Day). Choose this when a one-off event breaks the normal week.
Most coaches set their recurring defaults first, then layer overrides on top for special dates. Here's how to do each.
Step 1: Set your recurring weekly defaults
The Select Defaults card has seven columns, one for each day of the week (Sun through Sat).
In any weekday column, open the day dropdown and select the nutrition day that should recur on that weekday (for example, set Mon, Wed, and Fri to "Training Day").
Repeat for each weekday you want to schedule (for example, Tue and Thu to "Rest Day"; Sat and Sun to "Light Day").
To leave a weekday unscheduled, select None from its dropdown. Athletes fall back to picking a day manually on those days.
When a day is selected, the dropdown shows a color accent matching that nutrition day, so you can scan the week at a glance. Empty slots read Select Day.
Once your defaults are set, the Individual Dates card automatically fills in every future date with its matching weekday's day.
Step 2: Override a specific date
Use the Individual Dates card when a single date needs a different day than your recurring pattern: a game day, a travel day, or a holiday where no plan should load.
In the Individual Dates card, find the date you want to change.
Open the day dropdown on that date's cell and choose the day you want (for example, select "Game Day" for an upcoming Saturday).
An OVERRIDE tag appears on the cell to show it's been changed from the recurring default. The rest of your Saturdays keep the default.
A date override always wins. If Monday's default is "Training Day" but you override one specific Monday to "Game Day," your athlete sees "Game Day" on that date only.
To have no meal plan load on a specific date (for example, a holiday), open that date's dropdown and select None. This overrides the recurring default just for that date and leaves every other week untouched.
If you set a date back to the same day as its recurring default, the override is removed, and the OVERRIDE tag disappears.
What your athletes see
When nutrition days are assigned to weekdays or dates, your athlete's app loads the correct day for them automatically:
Today and future dates show the day you assigned (a date override first, then the recurring default). If nothing is scheduled for that date, the app falls back to the athlete's last-selected day.
Past dates show whatever day the athlete actually logged on that date.
Manual picks still work. If an athlete opens a different day on a given date, that choice sticks for that date only. The next day, scheduling takes over again fresh.
Assigned days roll over at midnight in the athlete's local time zone, so the right plan is waiting first thing in the morning.
A few things to keep in mind
Deleting a scheduled day: If you delete a nutrition day that's assigned on the calendar, you'll see a confirmation prompt first. After deleting, that day is cleared from any recurring defaults and specific dates it was assigned to.
Cloning a program: When you clone a program that has a calendar schedule, you'll be asked whether to keep the calendar or start fresh, so you're always in control of whether the schedule carries over.
Completed programs: The calendar for a completed program is locked. Hovering over a day shows the message "Completed programs cannot be edited."
If you have any additional questions, reach out to us at support@bridgeathletic.com.