Coaching
Coach Mode: your clients
See how each client is really doing, only as far as they let you.
What Coach Mode is
Coach Mode is the part of the app for coaches. A head coach runs a club: they open it (see Membership and billing), set its look, invite the other coaches and can see every client. A coach is invited by the head coach and sees only their own clients. Clients are adult members who accept your invitation; they decide what you see.
Open Coach lens from the account menu (tap your photo), from the clipboard button at the top of a phone, or from the foot of the sidebar on a computer. The menu and the bar change to Clients, Messages, Plans, Insights and, for the head coach, Club. Member lens takes you back to your own training. If you are also an admin, the gear at the top switches to Admin mode.
Your clients
Clients lists the people you coach. The head coach sees My clients first, then each coach's group with that coach's seats used. The header shows client seats used out of your allocation, with active clients and pending invitations listed separately; a pending invitation holds a seat until it is accepted, revoked or expires. Filter by All or Slipping (nothing shared in 7 days or more), and look for tags such as Slipping and Ending soon, each in words as well as colour. A number beside a name is unread messages.
Search by any part of a name or email address (the head coach can also search for a coach, which lists their clients). Tap the empty search box to see Recent, the clients you opened lately, kept on that device. Export clients (CSV) downloads your roster.
Invite a client
Tap + Invite client, enter their email and (as head coach) pick which coach they will train with. They get an email, and a notification if they already use the app, then choose what to share and accept. The link works once and expires in 14 days. The Invites button lists everything waiting, where you can Resend or Revoke an invitation. Coaching is for adults, so someone who has not confirmed they are 18 cannot accept.
A client’s Overview
Tap a client (on a computer, pick them on the left) to open their dashboard. At the top you see who they are, when you started coaching, and exactly what they share. Manage client holds Reassign to another coach and End coaching. A phone switches between Overview, Plan, History, Progress, Habits, Body, Nutrition and Notes with the Client sections menu; a computer shows them as a list beside the page.
Overview opens with Needs you: a missed workout, no log in 7 days or more, a new PR this week, or a program ending within a week, each with one button (Open plan or Send a message).
Compliance, figures and PRs
Under it, Compliance, last 4 weeks shows the share of planned workouts done, and this week day by day: done, missed, planned or no plan, always in words and shapes, never colour alone. Today and days ahead are never counted as missed. Then come workouts in the last 30 days, volume this week against last, trend weight, the last log and days of food logged, a chart of their best estimated one-rep max on their three most-trained lifts over 12 weeks (Table lists the same numbers) and their latest PRs, where an estimated PR reads as an e1RM rather than a lifted weight.
Anything a client keeps private says Not shared; it is never shown as zero.
Plan
Plan shows the routines assigned to the client with the version they have, an Assign routine button, and any program they are on with their place in it (“Day 13 of 28”). Remove takes a routine off the client; their own copy stays with them. See Coach Mode: routines, programs and calendar for building them.
History: a month at a time
History is a calendar, not a list. It opens on the client's latest month with workouts; step months with the arrows (never before their first workout or past this month). A day they trained is a large button showing how many entries it holds, and days with nothing are plain squares.
What they did on a day
Tap a worked day to open that day's sets, Failure and Belt marks, PR badges and notes. On a phone it fills the screen. A PR that was estimated says so (“PR · Est.”); an actual lifted weight reads as a plain PR. Only what the client shares appears.
Progress and Habits
Progress shows the client's Exercise History KPIs: strength trend, volume load, acute-to-chronic load ratio, PRs, cardio minutes against the weekly 150, pace or distance and mobility days. They measure training, never just logging.
Habits shows when and how much they train: sessions each week, food days and weigh-ins, the busiest weekdays, morning to evening split, their streak in weeks and top exercises, plus this week's load against their usual week.
Body and Nutrition
Body shows the weigh-ins and trend weight the client shared (and measurements or progress photos only if they ticked them; you always see body fat % when a client has Nutrition targets, to set them properly). Nutrition shows weekly calories and macros eaten against their target, with what you recommended.
Recommend nutrition targets
Tap Recommend targets to set calories and macros (the macros set the calories: 4, 4 and 9 per gram) and add a note. You see the client's BMR workings as they do: their formula, every formula's result, maintenance calories and their latest weigh-in. Your recommendation never applies itself: the client chooses Use these or Keep mine, and only one is open at a time, so a new one replaces it. The app raises a target below 1,200 (women) or 1,500 calories to that minimum on use. The client must have set up Nutrition first. If the client doesn't share nutrition, the tab says Not shared.
Coach notes
Notes are yours: write what you want to remember, pin the important one. Only coaches at your club can read them, and the client never can.
Messages
Messages lists a thread for every client with the last line of each; Unread only narrows it. The same inbox opens from the Messages button on a client's page. Only you and the client read the thread: never the head coach on another coach's client, an acting admin or ChatGPT. A client you reassign starts a new thread with the new coach.
A thread
Write in the box and tap Send. The client is told once per run of unread messages by a notification that never contains the text. Read shows under your message once they open it. New-message alerts reach you as notifications on the web while the page is open and as notifications from the Android app; use Notify me in a thread to allow them. When coaching ends neither side can send, and each can still export the history.
On a computer
On a computer the roster stays on the left while the client's page and its section list open beside it, so you can move between clients without going back. Coach areas are in the sidebar, and you can drag them into the order you work in (Alt and an arrow key moves one from the keyboard); your order is saved on your account for every device.
Common questions
Why does a client's page say Not shared?
The client has not ticked that part under Privacy. It is never shown as zero, and workout figures such as compliance leave the client out rather than counting them as missing.
A client I invited hasn't answered
Open Invites in Clients. An invitation lasts 14 days; Resend sends a new link and Revoke frees the seat. The invitation only shows on the account that uses the email you typed.
Can I coach someone under 18?
No. Coaching is for members 18 and over, and an invitation cannot be accepted until the member has confirmed their age.
Can the head coach read my messages with a client?
No. Only you and the client read the thread — not the head coach, another coach, an app administrator or ChatGPT. If you reassign a client, they start a new thread with the new coach.