Course

Build a client's programme

From an empty programme to a full training block. This course covers workouts, exercises and their prescription, the two exercise styles, video demonstrations, folders, and reusing work across clients.

  • 6 lessons
  • 60 min
  • For coaches
  • Progress tracked

What you'll learn

By the end of this course, you'll be able to

  • Build a workout your client can follow without asking you what it means
  • Set sets, reps, rest and weight in the right units
  • Know which switches change what a client can log back
  • Choose between Conventional and Versatile, and know when a superset needs the second one
  • Attach a demonstration to the movements people most often get wrong
  • Organise a year of training into folders that stay readable
  • Reuse a workout across clients inside the 15-minute clipboard window

Before you start

  • At least one client who has finished onboarding

Lessons

  1. Lesson 1: Building a workout for a clientWorkouts belong to one client, hold the exercises you add to them, and appear in the order you set. How to create one and what to decide before you start filling it.Guide·2 min read
  2. Lesson 2: Adding an exercise: sets, reps, rest and weightEvery field on an exercise, what each unit choice changes for the client, and why the notes field carries a warning about personal information.Guide·2 min read
  3. Lesson 3: Conventional and Versatile exercise stylesTwo ways to structure an exercise. Conventional handles a straight multiset movement; Versatile groups several movements under one heading for supersets, tri-sets and cluster sets.Explainer·2 min read
  4. Lesson 4: Attaching a video to an exercisePick from your own uploaded videos or link an external one. Both are reviewable, and a demonstration answers the question a client would otherwise message you at 6am.Guide·2 min read
  5. Lesson 5: Organising workouts with foldersFolders group a client's workouts, with a name, description, icon and colour. They are the difference between a programme and a list of thirty workouts.Guide·2 min read
  6. Lesson 6: Copying a workout to another clientCopy a workout, move to another client, paste. The clipboard holds one workout for 15 minutes, and a copied workout still needs adjusting to the person receiving it.Guide·2 min read