# Online strength coach client onboarding checklist

A strong onboarding flow teaches clients how to train, log, ask questions, and understand feedback before the first block begins.

Audience: online strength coaches
Intent: checklist

## Takeaways

- Set expectations before the first training week.
- Show clients exactly how to log workouts.
- Connect goals, program structure, and feedback cadence.

## Set expectations before week one

Onboarding should answer the questions that create early friction: how often the client trains, how they ask questions, when feedback arrives, and what progress looks like in the first block. Clear expectations reduce message overload and make clients more confident before the first workout.

## Collect the inputs that shape the first program

Ask for training history, schedule constraints, equipment access, injury notes, and the lifts or goals that matter most. The goal is not a giant intake form. The goal is enough context to assign a sensible first block and avoid rewriting the program after two sessions.

## Teach clients how to log workouts

A client who cannot log cleanly is harder to coach. Show them exactly what good logging looks like: completed sets, true loads, skipped work, substitutions, and short notes when something felt off. Make this part of onboarding, not a correction three weeks later. Walk the first week with the client onboarding checklist so the logging habit starts before the first block.

## Connect goals, program structure, and feedback cadence

Explain how the first block supports the goal, what the coach will review each week, and how adjustments will be communicated. When clients understand the loop, they stick with the process longer and send better training information.

## Where Lyfta Coach fits

Lyfta Coach can be introduced as the training home once the onboarding flow explains how clients should log and review their work.

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