How it works.

Who does what, step by step: the coach, the client, and what each one sees.

Last changed: 22 October 2026

The coach publishes a plan

  1. A coach claims a name and gets a page at yourname.physicalfeed.com, free.
  2. The coach puts a plan on that page: built in the Studio, read from a spreadsheet, or one of our 123 house programs, as it is or copied and changed.
  3. A plan is one to 16 weeks of sessions, each session a list of movements with their sets, reps and weights.
  4. The coach shares the plan’s link, or types a client’s name and email and we mail that client their own link.

In the help: Claim your page and name · Build a plan in the studio · The catalogue shelf · Share a plan

The plan is one thing; the tweaks are per calendar

  1. A plan is shared: every client on it gets the same sessions, each on their own start date and training days.
  2. Change a session in the plan and every calendar on that plan follows.
  3. On Free and on Pro, a coach can make a plan and send it to one person, with Send it for me or its link, and it is a plan for one person because only they have it.
  4. What Pro adds is that the plan can be unlisted, so nobody else finds it on the coach’s page, and that the coach sees that person by name.
  5. One client’s calendar can be changed without touching the plan: on their row, move it offers Next training day, Tomorrow, Skip it and Shift everything after, and tell them by email.
  6. On Pro a client can also have a 1:1 check-in in their calendar alone, a message to them alone, and a max per lift that turns a percent in the plan into their own weight.
  7. For each client a coach keeps a nickname, a private note, their contact and the day they last reached them; none of it enters the client’s calendar.
  8. What is not done is a different program written for each client.

In the help: Build a plan in the studio · Who's training · Unlisted plans · Live sessions and 1:1s

The client adds it to their calendar

  1. On the coach’s page the client picks their days and a start, gives their name and email, and ticks the box that says what the coach sees.
  2. We email them their link, and they add the plan once to Apple, Google, Outlook or any calendar that takes a link.
  3. There is no app to install, no account and no password.
  4. Every session then lands on its day, 120 to 180 days ahead, as its own calendar.

In the help: Add your plan to your calendar · Why your plan is its own calendar

What the client does each day

  1. The client opens the day’s event: the movements, sets, reps and the weight they last lifted are written in it, readable with no signal.
  2. They train from the event, or open its session page to see each movement drawn, tick sets and log weights.
  3. They tap Done, or Not today to move the session or skip it with a one-tap reason.
  4. They can give a movement a thumb up or down.
  5. Fuel panels are daily habits: eat, drink, sleep, mind, and panels you name, in the calendar.
  6. On a Fuel plan, each day is one all-day event, and a tap on its page says how it went: Nailed it, Mostly, Partly, Not today.
  7. A client types numbers and taps choices; there is nowhere to write a note.

In the help: Use the session page · Show your coach what you like · What physicalfeed is

What the coach sees, on each plan

  1. On Free the coach sees counts: how many are training this week, how many have gone quiet, and a row per client with their plan, week and the day they joined.
  2. On Free a client’s name and the address they gave on the coach’s page are not shown; an address the coach typed in themselves is.
  3. On Pro the coach sees who did what, by name and email: when each client last trained, what they logged, their history, and who has had no log in 14 days.
  4. On Pro each client has a bar of four, Calendar, Click, Done and Detail, and a face, both read from the last 14 days.
  5. On Pro the coach sees each client’s Fuel answers and thumbs; on Free, who is on Fuel and the thumbs in total.
  6. Every Monday the coach gets a mail of the week: in counts on Free, by name on Pro.

In the help: Who's training · A client's page · Free and Pro

How feedback reaches the client

  1. The weights a client logs come back in their next event, with the date they lifted them.
  2. If the coach set a progression rule, the next event shows the weight it comes to.
  3. A change the coach makes to a plan reaches every calendar on it when that calendar next checks: Apple on the client’s setting, Google usually within a day.
  4. A coach can send a message that lands in the client’s calendar as an event marked ⚡, up to 3 in any 7 days; the client can answer with a thumb if asked, or stop them with one tap.
  5. On Pro, an Email link beside a quiet client opens a note to them in the coach’s own mail; we never see it.
  6. The Monday mail is the coach’s alone; it never goes to a client.

In the help: How fast changes reach your calendar · Messages · Who's training

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