Linear
Add the same amount every time every set lands. The step is smaller on upper-body lifts than on lower ones, because a bench press and a back squat do not climb at the same rate and pretending they do is how a novice stalls in week five.
For coaches and trainers
A block you can see all of at once
A training block is a grid before it is anything else. Loopa’s builder is that grid, on the desktop web where there is room for it: weeks running down, the seven days running across, and your routine library sitting beside them. Drag a routine onto a day, or select it and click the day.
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| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Push | Easy Walk | Pull | Rest | Legs | Rest | Rest |
| Week 2 | Push | Easy Walk | Pull | Rest | Legs | Rest | Rest |
| Week 3 | Push | Easy Walk | Pull | Rest | Legs | Rest | Rest |
| Week 4 | Push | Easy Walk | Pull | Rest | Legs | Rest | Rest |
Still yours to changeAlready trained
Progression
Set the rule once. It decides the next number.
Progression belongs to the program, not to a cell you remember to edit. Pick the rule when you build the block and the target for the next session is worked out before your client is standing under the bar.
Double progression
Work up through a rep range at one weight. Hit the top of the range on every set and the weight goes up and the reps drop back to the bottom. The rule that suits accessory work, where adding weight every session was never realistic.
Percentage of one-rep max
Targets are a percentage of the estimated one-rep max Loopa is already keeping from the sets your client logged. The block follows the strength they have this month rather than a number somebody wrote down in January.
No rule
Sometimes the answer is that you decide each week and no formula gets a vote. Leave progression off and the numbers stay exactly as you wrote them, week after week, until you change them.
Assigning
Give it a client and a start date
The program lands on that person’s training calendar from the date you chose. Open today in the app and the exercises, the sets and the targets are already there.
One client or several
Assign from the client’s own page when the block is for them alone, or from the roster when the same block is going out to a group. Everyone gets their own copy with their own dates.
They have to have shared training
Assigning is refused unless that client has turned on the workouts category. A coach cannot schedule someone’s week on the strength of being on their roster.
Then you read it back
The sessions they log against the block come back to you set by set, with the records they set and how they said the session felt. Programming without that is writing into a void.
Editing a live block
Change week four without touching week one
Plans move. A client travels, a shoulder complains, a deadline eats a Thursday. Editing the weeks ahead is normal work and it costs nothing behind them.
Everything ahead is open
Swap a routine, move a session to another day, add a week, empty one out. Sunday night is when most of this happens and it takes a minute.
A trained day is finished
Once your client has completed a day, that day stops being editable and the server is what refuses it, not the screen. What they did stays what they did, which is the only version worth reviewing.
Their log is theirs either way
Nothing you change reaches into what they logged. Edit the plan all you like; the sessions, the sets and the records they earned are their record and they keep them if they leave.
What you build from
The library is already stocked
Six starter programs and fifteen routines ship with the platform, on top of an exercise catalog you would otherwise be typing in yourself.
Routines
Fifteen of them, ready to drop on a day
Full Body A and B, Push, Pull and Legs, Upper and Lower, Squat Day, Bench Day, Deadlift Day, Press Day, two bodyweight days, walk and run intervals, and an easy walk that exists because recovery counts.
- Six starter programs built out of them
- Save any of your own and reuse it
- Your client can start one straight from the app too
Exercises
453, each one described
Every exercise carries its muscle groups, the equipment it needs, the movement pattern it belongs to and a one-line form cue that shows under the name while your client is logging it. Filter the picker by muscle or by equipment, which is how you find the three things that work in a hotel gym.
- Eight movement patterns: push, pull, squat, hinge, lunge, carry, core, cardio
- Anything missing can be added, and it behaves like the rest
- The whole catalog is free, for your client and for you
Templates
Build it once, run it for years
The block you wrote for a first-time lifter is the block you will want again next month. Save it as a template and assign it to the next person who walks in.
Private until you use it
A template belongs to you. No other coach can see it, and no other coach can assign it. What you have refined over twenty clients stays yours.
Assigned copies stand alone
Each client gets their own copy from their own start date, so tailoring one person’s week four leaves everybody else’s alone.
Where the line sits
Free here, Premium there.
Your client does not need Premium to be coached. This is exactly which parts of this page cost nothing.
Free
Costs nothing, forever
No card, no ads, no daily cap.
- Logging workouts and cardio sessions
- The whole 453-exercise library
- Exercises they add themselves
- Personal records and full workout history
- Three saved routines
- Everything on the client side of coaching
Premium adds
Everything below comes with Loopa Premium, and Loopa Premium Family covers up to six people.
- Programs and the training calendar
- Progression rules on a program
- Volume and strength analytics
- Unlimited saved routines
- CSV export
There is no coaching fee and no cut of what you charge. The client pays for Loopa Premium, which is what the training feature is part of (the same price whether they train alone or with you) and while you are coaching, your own account runs on Premium.
Common questions
Do I build programs on my phone?
The builder is a desktop web screen, because a grid of weeks and days needs the room and a routine library needs somewhere to sit beside it. Your client never sees the builder. They see the sessions on their training calendar in the app, on the dates you put them.
How long can a program be?
Anything from one week to fifty-two. A new program opens at four weeks, which is the length most blocks want, and you change the number and the grid grows.
What decides the weight for the next session?
The progression rule you set on the program. Linear adds a fixed step when every set lands, and the step is smaller on upper-body lifts than on lower. Double progression climbs a rep range first and raises the weight when the top of the range is hit. Percentage works off the estimated one-rep max Loopa is already tracking from the sets your client logged. Or set none and the numbers stay exactly as you wrote them.
Can I change a program after a client has started it?
Yes, for every day still ahead of them. A day they have already trained is refused on the server, so the record of what they did stays the record of what they did. In practice you edit next week on a Sunday night and this week is untouched.
Do I have to build every program from scratch?
No. Six starter programs and fifteen routines ship with the platform, from Full Body A and B through Push, Pull and Legs to an easy walk. Build on top of those, or save your own program as a template and use it again. Your templates are private to you until you assign them.
What does my client have to share before I can program for them?
Workouts. It is one of ten sharing categories and it starts off, like all ten. Until your client turns it on, assigning a program to them is refused. That is also the switch that lets you read the sessions they log against the program.
Bring your clients
Four short pages, about five minutes, and a person reads every one of them.