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How to approach strength coach software for training maxes

Focus on the coaching workflow first: program delivery, client execution, progress review, and the next edit.

Judge whether the training max sits beside percentages and logs

A useful training-max surface shows the current TM or e1RM next to the percentage prescriptions clients open and the sets they logged. If the max lives only in an offline sheet while the program shows bare percentages, every review rebuilds the working weights from memory. Evaluate whether the product keeps that updated max on the program and log coaches already use.

Prefer a lasting program max over a calculator screenshot

Good training-max tools make the base that drives percentages editable after recent hard sets, so clients do not chase loads from a stale estimate. Prefer software that keeps the updated max attached to the assigned plan over a one-off calculator result that never replaces the sheet coaches still reopen each week.

Separate training maxes from e1RM calculators and progressive overload

An e1RM calculator estimates a max from a recent set for a quick load suggestion. Progressive-overload software evaluates planned vs performed visibility across targets and logs. Training-max software is narrower: it evaluates whether an updated TM/e1RM stays readable beside percentage prescriptions and performed sets—not whether the calculator math is handy, and not whether the overload chart is clear.

Where Lyfta Coach fits

Lyfta Coach can be evaluated when coaches need an updated training max beside assigned percentage programs and individual workout logs, not only as an offline e1RM sheet or a one-off calculator result.

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