Coach guide
Most software asks you to create an account before it will tell you what it does. This is the entire coaching side of DialedRx — connecting an athlete, writing your methodology down, drafting a block in plain English, assigning it, and reading what came back. Seven steps. Nothing withheld.
Step 1 · Connect
Your connect code lives on your own profile and doesn't change. Show it, print it, put it on the gym wall. An athlete scans it, makes their own account, and lands on your roster already linked to you.
There's no seat to buy and no invite to chase. The same code works for the fifteenth athlete as the first — and because they scanned in during signup, the role question is skipped for them entirely.
Your profile is the hub. Roster, connect code, styles, credits and your own athlete profile — a coach trains too, and that side of the app is still yours.
Hard rules are non-negotiable. "No barbell back squat" stays true in every draft, for every athlete this style is assigned to, without you having to remember it.
Step 2 · Your methodology
A style is your approach, made explicit: modality, progression model, movement selection, split, volume intent and exercise bias — plus the defaults you'd otherwise retype forever, like your working rep range, your RIR window, and how often you deload.
Two fields do the heavy lifting. Emphasis is what you want prioritised — posterior chain, overhead capacity, whatever you're known for. Hard rules are the things that must never appear. And your written philosophy isn't decoration: your athletes read it, so the reasoning behind their training travels with it.
Don't start from a blank page — clone a preset and tweak it. Most coaches end up with two or three styles, not fifteen.
Step 3 · Assign the style
On any athlete's screen, pick which of your styles seeds their drafts. That one choice is what makes a draft come back sounding like you instead of sounding like software.
It stacks with what the athlete already told the app about their own limits. Your style decides the shape of the training; their constraints decide what's allowed to be in it. Neither one overwrites the other.
What the athlete brought
Lower back: strict ceiling · no overhead pressing · dumbbells and a rack, no specialty bars.
Both are live at once. Your style seeds every new draft for this athlete; their limits filter what can appear in it.
What you type
Then, on the draft
Revisions rebuild only what they touch. Days you didn't mention come back verbatim — a tweak doesn't reroll the week.
Step 4 · Draft the block
No form with forty dropdowns. Say what you want in the words you'd use talking to another coach, and a real multi-week block comes back — written to the style you assigned and filtered through that athlete's limits.
Then you edit it, because it's a draft and you're the coach. Keep talking to it in the same plain language, or open the days and change sets, loads and movements by hand.
Prefer to build it yourself? There's a plan builder with no AI in it at all — lay out the days by hand, save it, re-run it, share it, assign it. Drafting is an option, not the only door.
Step 5 · Assign it
Anything you've built lives in your library — plans and single workouts, kept apart because you reach for them differently. From an athlete's screen you pick the item; from the library you pick the person. Same result, whichever end you started at.
Add a note when you assign, and it arrives with the training rather than in a separate message they'll read three days later. A one-off — a test day, a travel session, a make-up — drops in without unpicking the block around it.
Note that goes with it
Start Monday. Week 1 is deliberately light — don't chase the numbers from your last block.
Never trained, then gone quiet, then slipping, then fine. Alphabetical is a storage order. This is a work order.
Step 6 · Read the roster
Your roster sorts by attention required, not by name. The athlete who signed up and never started is at the top, then anyone who hasn't trained in two weeks, then anyone past a week. Blunt thresholds on purpose — a week is starting to slip, two weeks is gone quiet.
A new athlete arrives already holding the starter plan the app built them at signup — flagged for your review, so you're editing something real rather than starting from a blank page and a stranger.
Step 7 · Coach
Open an athlete and you have their training as it happened — every session, set, load and effort score, plus estimated 1RM, weekly hard sets per muscle against published volume landmarks, and their adherence. Not a summary they wrote up. The training itself.
You're not reading a summary they typed up — you're reading the session. What they were prescribed, what they actually lifted, where they swapped, what they skipped, and whether they cut it short. Between your sessions the engine holds the line, adapting inside what you asked for when a shoulder is off on a Tuesday, and showing you that it did.
Plan 3–4 × 8–12
Target 90 lb × 11 @ 1 RIR · Last: 90×10
Plan 3 × 10–15
Plan 3 × 12–20
No sets logged.
Read what this tells you. They swapped the hinge, went 20 reps at RIR 10 on a 10–15 prescription, never touched the rehab work, and ended it early. That's a conversation you can have on Monday — without asking how it went.
Worth knowing
Not against you. It works inside what you asked for, and when your intent collides with an athlete's safety floor it says so in words — "coach asked for 1–5 reps; youth preset holds it at 8–15" — instead of silently picking a winner.
No. The plan builder has no AI in it — lay out the days yourself, save, re-run, assign. Drafting is there for the weeks you don't want to type; everything else works the same either way.
Nothing. Athletes carry their own subscription, so you're never billed for your roster and never have to collect for one. Your own seat is waived once six of them are subscribed.
They keep their history and you stop seeing it. The relationship is theirs to end — which is the honest arrangement when they're the one paying for the account.
Yes, and you should. A coach has their own athlete profile, their own plan and their own numbers — which is also how you stay fluent in what your athletes are looking at.
One house style, applied consistently by every coach on the floor. New staff inherit the standard instead of reinventing it, and a member who trains with whoever's on shift still gets a coherent block.
No card, unlimited roster, and your own plan built on the way in — so you'll have stood where your athletes stand before you program for any of them.
Balance, adjustable.