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getting started.
Two tracks, because Trainbase is one system with two faces: the coach's command center and the athlete's companion. Every step below is a real screen; the links need a sign-in, and will take you there first.
getting started as a coach
From an empty roster to a client training against their own numbers, in six steps.
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add your first client
From the roster, add a client with their name and email. They get their own sign-in and see only their own data from the moment they exist.
open add client - 2
record a check-in
Open the client from your roster and record a body reading: weight and body fat. A live preview shows where the reading lands against their current numbers before you save it.
open the roster - 3
build their diet
On the client's diet screen, compose meals from the 1,300+ food library or your own private foods. Calories are derived from the macros, so the plan can never disagree with itself.
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assign a program
From the client's page, assign a program from the 1,600+ template library or one you built yourself. Every set written as a percentage of one-rep-max resolves to concrete weights against that client's own numbers.
browse templates - 5
read the progress table
The client's history screen puts every check-in on one date axis: body and strength as snapshots on the day, diet, training, and notes as the span since the last check-in. It is the ledger behind the charts.
- 6
watch the roster
The roster ranks your clients worst-first, with a fat-trend sparkline on every row drawn to one shared scale. You see who needs you before they message.
open the roster
getting started as an athlete
Your coach sets the plan. Your job is the honest inputs: the sets you lift, the plan you follow, and the goal you agree to.
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see your body
Your body screen shows your recomposition honestly: lean and fat mass as columns, current beside goal, with the gap between them as the thing you are closing.
open your body screen - 2
log your training
Your training screen shows the program your coach assigned, with your working weights already resolved. Log each set as you finish it; your estimated one-rep-max updates from what you actually lift, always marked as an estimate.
open training - 3
report your diet compliance
Your diet screen shows the plan your coach wrote. Report how closely you followed it, honestly; the trend only means something if the inputs are true.
open your diet - 4
accept your goal
When your coach proposes a new goal, it appears on your body screen as pending. Your targets do not move until you accept it; a goal is an agreement, not an assignment.
check for a pending goal - 5
read your history
Your full history puts every check-in on one date axis, and your performance screen tracks each exercise's estimated one-rep-max over time.
open your history
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