What Metrics Are
Metrics are the data points you track for each client - weight, body fat percentage, circumference measurements, ratings like sleep and energy, or anything else you want to monitor over time.
Metrics can be logged by you (from the coach side) or by the client (from the app), depending on how your setup is configured.
Standard Metrics vs. Custom Metrics
CoachWay has two types of metrics:
1. Standard (System) Metrics
These are pre-built metrics with a logic tied to them - meaning the system knows exactly what to do with the data. They include for example:
Weight - connects to the weight chart, goal tracking, and progress calculations on the Development page
Body fat % and Muscle mass % - connect to body composition tracking
Circumference measurements - chest, stomach, arm, forearm, waist, hip, glutes, thigh
Standard ratings - energy, sleep, workout, nutrition, average rating
These metrics are built into the system, so you cannot create a duplicate of them. If you created a new metric called "Weight" manually, the system would not know how to connect it to the weight chart, goal tracking, or progress indicators (and would not show up in a check-in). That is why the defaults exist.
2. Custom Metrics
For anything beyond the standard metrics, you can create your own. Go to Metrics in the sidebar and click + New Metric. Common examples:
Muscle mass in kg (instead of %)
Visceral fat
Metabolic age
Sleep hours
Water intake
Custom rating scales (stress, confidence, motivation, etc.)
For each custom metric you define:
Name: what it's called
Type: Number, Rating, or other format
Unit : kg, %, cm, hours, or anything that fits
⚠️⚠️ Why You Cannot Just Rename Fields ⚠️⚠️
A common misunderstanding: that you can create a new metric called "Vægt" or any other name and expect the system to use it for weight tracking. That will not work.
The system does not interpret what you type in the name field - it relies on the built-in standard metrics for features like the weight chart, goal progress (green/red indicators), and body composition tracking. Custom metrics are tracked and displayed, but they do not trigger the same logic as standard metrics.
If you want weight tracking with all the built-in features, use the Weight standard metric. If you want to track something additional, create a custom metric on top.
Metrics in the Development Page vs. Check-in Forms
There are two places metrics lives:
1. Development Page
The Development page is the overview - it pulls together all metrics tracked for a client and shows trends over time. You can:
Add or edit measurements manually
See the Body progress, and custom metrics in one place
Compare changes between check-ins
For more information, see Understanding the Development Page - Quick Overview
2. Check-in Forms
Check-in forms are where metrics get collected on a schedule. When you build a check-in form, you add the metrics you want the client to log: weight, measurements, ratings, etc. When the client submits their check-in, those values are automatically logged to the Development page.
In other words:
Forms = how you collect data
Development page = how you review data
What Clients Can See
Clients see their own metrics in the app on their Progress page.
What appears there is driven by what has actually been tracked, not only by what is in their check-in form.
As soon as a metric has a logged value, it shows up. That includes values from:
a submitted check-in
a measurement the client logs directly in the app
a measurement you add yourself on the Development page
Metrics that have never been logged do not appear, so a client's Progress page only shows what is actually relevant to them.
Weight drives the weight card with starting weight, goal weight and percentage completed. Body fat percentage and circumference measurements appear under body measurements.
👉 For the full walkthrough of what this looks like on the client's phone, see How clients see their Progress in the app.
Recommendations
Use standard metrics for the basics.
Weight, body fat %, circumference - always use the built-in ones so all the automatic logic (charts, goal tracking) works correctly.
Use custom metrics for specifics.
If you coach a niche (PCOS, powerlifting, hormonal health), custom metrics let you track what matters without cluttering the default view.
Review metrics periodically.
If you've had a personal metric active for 3 months and never looked at it, you can archive it.