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Strength Training for Coaches

Program gym sessions with the exercise and workout libraries, schedule them for athletes, and review completed strength work.

Use the shared Library and Coaching → Calendar to prescribe strength work the same way you prescribe endurance sessions—then review what athletes actually logged.

Build reusable strength content

Exercises

  1. Open Library → Exercises (coach library when coaching context is active).
  2. Create exercises with movement pattern, intent, muscle groups, prescription defaults, and optional video/instructions.
  3. Keep naming consistent so athletes and staff can search the same catalog.

Gym workout templates

  1. Open Library → Workouts → New Workout → type Gym.
  2. Structure the session with blocks (warmup, single exercise, superset, circuit, cooldown).
  3. Pull exercises from the library, set rows and load fields the editor supports, and save the template into a folder if needed.
  4. Set planned duration or TSS override when you want calendar load to reflect the gym day.

See Coach Library & Sharing for folders, ownership, and Private / Team / Public visibility on plans.

Prescribe to an athlete

  1. Open Coaching → Calendar.
  2. Select the athlete.
  3. From the Workouts drawer, schedule a Gym template onto a date (or pull a session from a plan blueprint).
  4. Adjust the week with move/copy as availability changes.

Athletes can also schedule their own library copies from Activities. Clarify with each athlete whether gym days are coach-owned or self-managed.

How athletes log sets

There is no live in-app set logger for athletes today. Typical completion paths:

  • Hevy sync into Coach Watts (athlete connects Hevy under Settings → Apps)
  • .fit upload or a manual strength/gym activity
  • Matching the completed activity to your planned Gym session on the calendar

Point athletes at Strength Training and Hevy Integration.

Review completed strength work

  1. Coaching → Overview — compliance and recent activity signals.
  2. Coaching → Calendar — planned vs completed vs matched coloring; open the completed summary.
  3. Coaching → Athletes → athlete profile — recent completed work; use workout comparison when you need side-by-side sessions.

Message Athlete opens AI Chat with athlete context; it does not notify the athlete. Use your normal messaging channel for feedback. See Messaging & AI-Assisted Review.

Programming tips

  • Prefer library exercises over one-off inline definitions when you will reuse the movement.
  • Keep strength and endurance on the same calendar so load and recovery stay coherent.
  • For team catalogs, use Team visibility on shared plans/workouts rather than emailing files.
  • Be explicit about RPE, tempo, or rest in exercise instructions if those fields matter for your method—the editor exposes the prescription fields available in product; put coaching cues in instructions when a field is missing.

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