Workout planning for independent coaches
Build the plan your client will train from.
Design preview · Planned connected Mako Coach workflow. Illustrative records.
Give each client a clear training block, from the first exercise cue to the next agreed session. Create the program in Mako, offer it through Beta Training and keep future changes connected to the work your client completes.
Clients log assigned training and reply in Beta Training, included with your coach plan.
7 days for $1 USDThe complete core, then the plan for your active clients.
Alex’s strength block
- Goal
- Three sessions a week
- Equipment
- Client’s available set
- Program version
- Draft 1
Start from a reusable template, then adapt the prescription to the client.
01 / Workout Planning & Assignment
Start with your method. Make it their plan.
A useful program reflects the person doing it: their goal, available equipment, training days and the instructions you want them to remember. Build a program from scratch or adapt a reusable template, then shape the exercises and progression around that client.
Organize sessions across days and weeks. Add clear instructions and demonstration links beside the exercises they explain. Keep required work and optional extras distinct so both of you understand what completing the plan means.
- Specify supported sets, reps, rest, loads and units.
- Add supported alternatives, durations and exercise groupings.
- Review the whole block before offering it to the client.
Alex’s strength block
- Goal
- Three sessions a week
- Equipment
- Client’s available set
- Program version
- Draft 1
Start from a reusable template, then adapt the prescription to the client.
02 / Workout Planning & Assignment
Prescribe work your client can record.
The workout your client opens in Beta Training should match the plan you prepared in Mako. Exercise instructions, targets and supported recording fields belong together, so a client can see what you prescribed and enter what they actually did.
Assignment depends on support throughout that journey. A duration, effort field or grouped exercise format must be supported by the assigned workout experience before you can offer it. An unavailable result stays labelled unavailable. The plan should never silently turn a prescription into a different activity.
Targets they can record
- Goblet squat
- 3 × 8 reps
- Load
- 20 kg total
- Recording fields
- Supported in Beta
Unsupported formats must be resolved before offering the plan.
03 / Workout Planning & Assignment
Agree the plan before filling the calendar.
Publishing creates a specific version to offer. Your client reviews the program in Beta Training, including its notes, equipment and expected workload, then accepts or declines. You can see whether the offer is delivered, awaiting acceptance or ready for scheduling.
After acceptance, agree dates or recurring training days in the client's timezone and review conflicts. This gives the block a schedule both of you understand. Work from an unaccepted offer does not become a training obligation, and accepting an offer does not silently replace an existing calendar.
An offer, then a schedule
- Program offer
- Awaiting acceptance
- Training dates
- Proposed
- Due sessions
- None created yet
Acceptance and agreement come before scheduled training obligations.
04 / Workout Planning & Assignment
Change the next block without rewriting the last one.
Training changes as you learn more about a client. Prepare a new program version, explain the change and offer a replacement with an effective date. The client accepts that replacement before it takes over the agreed future work.
Started and completed sessions keep the prescription they belonged to. When you review a result later, you can still see what the client was asked to do at the time. That history helps you discuss a change in exercise selection or workload without losing the earlier coaching context.
Change future work
- Original version
- Completed logs kept
- Replacement version
- Client review needed
- Effective date
- Next agreed block
Completed sessions keep the prescription that applied at the time.
A coaching example
A coaching example: Alex's first strength block
Alex wants three strength sessions each week and has a limited selection of equipment. You adapt a template, choose supported exercises and add cues for the main lifts. You offer the finished block through Beta Training, where Alex reviews and accepts it.
You agree Monday, Wednesday and Friday training dates. Later, Alex asks for a different exercise because equipment access has changed. You prepare a replacement version and agree when it starts. Alex's completed workouts retain their original instructions and recorded results. This example is illustrative.
Program version 1
- Client decision
- Accepted
- Completed sessions
- Keep original instructions
- Training days
- Monday / Wednesday / Friday
The historical result stays tied to its original prescription.
Program version 2
- Change
- Equipment alternative
- Effective date
- Next agreed block
- Client decision
- Awaiting acceptance
An unaccepted replacement does not silently change future training.
Future work agreed
- Replacement
- Accepted in this example
- Next block
- Uses version 2
- Completed history
- Still version 1
Only future eligible work changes; the completed training history remains intact.
Illustrative change only. Nothing is sent.
Fictional client and records. These controls change this illustration only; they do not send messages, change bookings or collect payments.
Practical questions
A few things to know.
Does my client need a separate paid Beta Training plan?
Assigned-plan logging and coaching replies are included with your Mako coach plan. Clients use Beta Training to follow the accepted program and record supported results. Optional consumer features have separate entitlements; they are separate from the assigned training experience.
Can I use an existing program as a starting point?
You can create a reusable program or duplicate one and adapt it for a client. Review its exercises, instructions, equipment and supported recording fields before publishing. A template supplies a starting point; the offered version is the plan your client reviews.
What happens when a client declines a plan?
The offer remains distinct from an accepted assignment, with its status visible to you. You can discuss the reason and prepare another offer. Declining does not create due workouts or make the client appear to have missed sessions from that program.
Does accepting a plan automatically enable workout sharing?
Program acceptance and training-sharing permission are separate choices. Completed-workout sharing is optional and revocable. Your client can review the sharing scope, and purchasing coaching or booking a session does not automatically authorize access to their training records.
Keep the rest of the practice connected.
Give the next training block a clear beginning.
Explore a connected route from your program draft to client acceptance, scheduled sessions and completed training. Ask about coach access to review how that workflow fits your coaching practice.
The connected coach workflow is in development. Ask about access before moving your practice.