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How to approach strength coach software for working weights

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

Judge whether calculated loads sit beside percentages and logs

A useful working-weight surface shows the plate-friendly loads clients should open next to the assigned percentages and the sets they logged. If percentages stay on the program while working weights live as mental math or a separate sheet, every session rebuilds the load from scratch. Evaluate whether the product keeps those calculated loads on the program and log coaches already use.

Prefer readable working weights over a bare percentage ladder

Good working-weight tools make the load clients should rack readable after the training max and percentages update, so clients do not convert % of TM mid-warm-up. Prefer software that keeps calculated loads attached to the assigned plan over a percentage ladder that never shows the working weight beside each prescription.

Separate working weights from percentage prescriptions and progressive overload

Percentage-prescription software evaluates whether % of TM work stays readable beside a visible max and logs. Progressive-overload software evaluates planned vs performed visibility across targets and logs. Working-weight software is narrower: it evaluates whether calculated loads from % × TM stay readable beside those percentages and performed sets—not whether the bare % ladder exists, and not whether the overload chart is clear.

Where Lyfta Coach fits

Lyfta Coach can be evaluated when coaches need working weights beside assigned programs and individual workout logs, not only as bare percentage prescriptions with no calculated loads or a progressive-overload chart alone.

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