Designing an effective cognitive training plan is key to optimizing athlete performance. The Soma Analytics Plan Builder is a powerful tool that makes it easy to create tailored cognitive training programs.

In this guide, we’ll walk you through the entire process—from setting up your plan to customizing drills—so you can build a structured, effective training program from scratch. Let’s get started!

Name Your Plan

Save the Plan As

We suggest setting up all your sessions first, configuring the scales for the athlete to complete after each task, enabling MoM mode, and naming each session before you start designing the plan.

Create Session

Click on “Add Session” to create a new session.

Name Each Session:

Use names like “Baseline”, “Session 1”, “Session 2”, etc.

Typical Session Layout:

Set Session Cycles

Determine how many times the athlete should repeat a session by entering a value in the “Cycles” field. By default, it is set to 1 cycle.
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Add Scales

Enhance session feedback by selecting scales from the dropdown menu.

Examples of Scales:

Activate Baseline Comparison (Optional)

Turn on Baseline Comparison to automatically generate and send reports after post-baseline tests. This should only be enabled for baseline sessions.

Note: Enabling this feature automatically sets session cycles to 2, so athletes complete the same baseline test at both the start and end of the plan for accurate comparisons.

Enable Minute-on-Minute Mode (Optional)

For detailed performance analysis, enable “Minute-on-Minute” tracking for each session.

Now that all your sessions are set up, it’s time to design the training plan.

Placement

Decide when you want your athletes to perform their cognitive training:

Soma’s dynamic menu adapts based on your selected placements. If you assign tasks only to “In-Session,” the other two menus will remain hidden within Soma NPT, ensuring athletes always know when to complete their cognitive training.

💡 Tip: You can leave notes for your athlete, but ensure the block contains tasks—otherwise, the note won’t be visible.
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Add Drill to Session

Click on “Add Drill” and select the task.

Set Parameters:

Repeat this process until the session is complete.

Once you’re satisfied with the session, click “Add Session” and repeat the process until the entire plan is complete.

💡 Tip: We recommend designing your athletes’ cognitive training program by consistently repeating a core set of sessions—Session 1, Session 2, and Session 3. Each week, you can either progressively increase the load or vary it through undulating periodization by adjusting the intensity, duration, or frequency.

💡 Tip: If you want to analyze the baseline data before completing all other sessions, we recommend setting up the session names and scales, and enabling MoM (Minute-on-Minute) mode. This preparation will save you time. After reviewing the baseline data, simply return to the plan and continue building it.

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To Schedule the Plan:

Make sure your athlete is on the Home Screen tab in Soma NPT. This step is required for the new plan to load when switching plans.

In the example below, the athlete was on the Tasks tab. Once they tapped Home, the plan updated from Soma 1.0 to Soma 1.1.

All plans are automatically saved as you create them.

To find a saved plan:

Deleting Sessions

If you delete a session that has already been completed by a user (or multiple users), all data from that session will be permanently lost.

This action cannot be undone. Once deleted, the data cannot be recovered.