Written once, used everywhere
Build a routine, keep it in a folder, drop it onto any day of any program. The 453-exercise catalog is there, and you can add your own.
For Loopa Coaches
Build the training block. Put it on their calendar.
Create multi-week programs, reuse your routines, apply progression rules and assign the finished block to clients who have chosen to share training with you.
Requires Loopa Premium Included for approved Loopa Coaches. Clients need Premium.
Coaches hold a Loopa Premium membership of their own, bought on the web during onboarding.
Why it matters
The programming is the work. The admin is not.
Most coaches are writing blocks in a spreadsheet, exporting a PDF, sending it, and then asking how it went. The gap between what you wrote and what they actually did is where coaching gets guessed at. Writing the block into the app your client already logs in closes it.
Write the routinesOnce, and reuse them
Lay out the weeksA seven-day grid, as many weeks as the block runs
Set progressionOr set every target by hand
Assign itTo one client or to a group
Read what happenedThe sets they logged, not the plan you sent
The builder
Weeks across, days down
The grid is the whole idea: a training block is a shape, and a shape is easier to see than a list.
Seven days across, week by week
Put a routine on a day, move a day, leave a day empty. What the client sees is the same calendar, in the app, with today one tap away.
Permanently
A day your client has trained is finished. You can change what is ahead of them and never what is behind.
Independent copies
Assign to several clients at once and each gets their own dates and their own results. They cannot see each other.
Progression
Four rules, and all four are suggestions
Loopa proposes the next target from the rule you picked. Nothing is written without somebody deciding.
A fixed increment
Adds weight when every set hit its target reps. The default increments are larger for lower-body lifts than upper, which is a convention you can change, not a fact about bodies.
Reps first, then load
Climbs the rep range at one weight, and only adds load when the top of the range is hit on every set.
Of the current estimated one-rep max
Targets are a share of the client’s current estimate, which moves as they train. Always the estimate, never a tested max.
You set every target
For anything the other three do not describe.
Where a target comes from a one-rep max, it comes from an estimated one-rep max, calculated from logged sets. Loopa never presents it as a max the client actually tested, and above twelve reps it declines to estimate one at all.
Consent
Being on your roster is not permission to program their training
This is the part of the platform worth choosing it for, and it is not negotiable.
Per coach, and off by default
A client shares training with you explicitly. Absence of a grant is a refusal, not an oversight, and nothing you do can create one.
And it is retroactive
Revoke and you stop seeing their training immediately, including what you could see yesterday. You cannot edit a day, assign again or comment. Their schedule stays on their calendar.
And logged
Nothing is cached and there is no second route in. A coach who cannot see a client’s training also cannot point at a piece of it.
Throughout, and afterwards
If the relationship ends, their history stays with them, and any routine of yours they accepted was copied into their own library so it survives too.
What it costs
No seat fee for you. Premium for them.
Both halves matter, and the second one is the awkward half, so it is stated plainly rather than left to be discovered.
Start here
For an approved coach
No seat fee, no per-client charge.
- The program builder, with no seat fee
- Your routine library and folders
- The 453-exercise catalog
- Group assignment
- Reading what a consenting client logged
- Session comments, capped at ten per client per day
- Your own Loopa Premium, bought on the web during onboarding
For your client
Worth checking before you promise a block.
- Loopa Premium, to open anything you assign
- The workout feature is Premium in full
- Sharing training with you is their decision
- They can revoke it at any time
- Completed sessions can never be edited by you
- Their training history stays theirs
- Routines they accept are copied into their library
FAQ
Questions coaches ask
Including the entitlement one, which is the awkward one.
What does the program builder cost a coach?
Nothing on top of your own Loopa Premium membership. The builder is included for approved Loopa Coaches, with no seat fee and no per-client charge. A coach approved from September 23, 2026 holds a paid Premium membership of their own, at the published $12.99 a month or $69.99 a year, bought on the web as a step in onboarding; coaches approved before then keep Premium free while they coach.
Does my client need Premium?
Yes. The workout feature is part of Loopa Premium, so a client needs Premium to open an assigned program, the training calendar, a routine or a session. Being on your roster does not grant it. Worth knowing before you promise a block to somebody on Loopa Basic.
Where do I build a program?
On desktop, in a browser. The apps are where training gets read and logged; the builder is where it gets written, and a seven-day grid across several weeks is not a phone screen. Members can build their own routines on a phone.
Can I assign a program to several clients at once?
Yes, and each one gets an independent copy with its own start date, its own days and its own results. Tailoring week four for one person does not touch anybody else. Clients cannot see each other’s training, and a client who has not shared training with you is named back to you as refused rather than silently skipped.
What progression rules are there?
Four. Linear adds a fixed increment when every set hits its target. Double progression climbs the rep range at one load and only adds weight at the top of the range. Percentage works from the client’s current estimated one-rep max. Or none, and you set every target yourself. All four are suggestions the client or you can override, and nothing is written automatically.
What happens if a client revokes training sharing?
You stop being able to see their training immediately, including what you could see yesterday, and you cannot edit a day, assign again or comment. The schedule already on their calendar stays where it is. Their log is theirs throughout.
Can I edit a session my client already did?
No. Future programming can change; completed sessions cannot. That is enforced where the write happens rather than by hiding a button, so there is no route to it.
Is there messaging?
No, and that is deliberate. You can comment on a session you already have permission to see, up to ten times per client per day, and your client can reply on a thread you opened. There is no open channel, which keeps the relationship on the training rather than turning it into an inbox you have to answer at eleven at night.
What happens when a coaching relationship ends?
Your access ends, every standing permission is revoked and every open share is withdrawn. Their training history stays theirs, and any routine of yours they accepted was copied into their own library, so it survives too.
Bring your roster somewhere they already log
The program builder is included for approved Loopa Coaches, with no seat fee and no per-client charge.
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