A climbing training planner for coaches

What it does for a coach

Blok Sessions was built for climbers planning their own training, and the same planner works when the plan is for someone else. Here’s what’s there:

1. A plan for someone you coach. When you make a plan, choose who it’s for. Your own plan and your climbers’ plans sit side by side.
2. Weeks in training periods. Group the weeks into periods like Base, Strength, Power or Deload. Every exercise shows its minutes, intensity, injury risk and which periods it’s for, so you can see at a glance whether a Deload week is really a deload.
3. Copy a week, save templates. Build a week once and copy it forward. Save a session you give to several climbers as a template.
4. Add it to your calendar. The plan’s sessions go in your calendar, next to everything else.
5. Send it. Share the plan as a file the climber imports, or send it with a private link. Either way they add their own copy to their plans, and they can move its start date.

A way to run it with a climber

1. Test first. The app has five benchmark tests: 20 mm half crimp, 20 mm open hand, max 2-rep pull-up, max hang endurance and bodyweight. Have the climber do them in their own app and send you the numbers.
2. Plan one block. Four to eight weeks in one or two periods, with a deload week at the end.
3. Send it. A private link is quickest. The climber opens it and adds the plan to their account.
4. Check in every couple of weeks. Ask what they did and how it felt. Climbers can share a session or the month’s stats as an image straight from the app.
5. Retest, then send the next block. Same tests at the end, so you’re both looking at numbers rather than a feeling.

Where it stops

It’s a planner, and it’s honest to say where that ends. Each climber trains and logs in their own account, and you don’t see that log in your app. Agree up front how they’ll report back: a shared image, a message after each week, or the test numbers at the end of the block.

It also doesn’t know your climber. Every exercise has an injury risk rating, and the exercise pages say who each one isn’t for, but whether this climber is ready for max hangs or campus ladders is your call. For a climber with a current injury, the plan waits until a physio has seen them.

Sharing more widely

A plan that’s good for one climber is often good for others. You can also share a plan to bloksessions.com/community, where anyone with a free account can add it to their plans and rate it once they have. Only do that with plans you’d put your name to: people add them without you there to explain them.