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Strength Academy

Hybrid training

Coaching app for weightlifting, powerlifting, CrossFit, HYROX, hypertrophy and running

Strength, endurance and everything between, in one app for the hybrid athlete and the coach who programs them.

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One platform

Built for every sport

Born in Olympic weightlifting and physiotherapy research. Engineered for the way you actually train.

One app

Strength and endurance, finally together

Most apps make you choose: a lifting tracker or a running app, a powerlifting log or a CrossFit board. Strength Academy programs and tracks them all together: percentages and complexes for the bar, splits and pace for the road, stations and ergs for the floor. Your whole hybrid week lives in one place.
Strength Academy home with the week ahead and today’s session from the coach

By sport

Born in Olympic weightlifting and physiotherapy research, then built out so each sport tracks the numbers it is measured by.

Weightlifting

Coaches program the snatch, the clean & jerk and their squats as percentages of each lifter’s current max, and the lifter sees kilograms. A heavier single in training moves the max on its own, and a missed lift does not. Complexes such as 1 snatch pull + 1 snatch keep each part’s start position and its own PR. Lifters send their sets on video and get timestamped notes, drawings and slow motion back. Meet results keep three attempts per lift with the Sinclair score.

  • Snatch
  • Clean & Jerk
  • Total
  • Sinclair
  • Lift ratios
  • Miss rate
Weightlifting coaching in Strength Academy

Powerlifting

The squat, bench press and deadlift are written by percentage of 1RM, by RPE or both, and variations such as a pause squat take their percentage from the parent lift. Lifters log RPE on every set from 6 to 10 in half steps, and the coach sees the average RPE per lift each week against the percentage. The cycle planner has peaking and taper phases. Each meet result keeps all nine attempts, made or missed, with video and a DOTS score.

  • Squat
  • Bench
  • Deadlift
  • Total
  • RPE per set
  • Estimated 1RM
  • DOTS
Powerlifting coaching in Strength Academy

CrossFit

The WOD builder has nine formats, including For Time, AMRAP, EMOM, Chipper and Ladder, and every movement has an Rx and a scaled version with men’s and women’s loads. Athletes pick their version, run the timer on their phone and log the score, which is saved with the version they chose. A gym plans its classes from the same account, shows the workout and timer on a gym screen and records class scores.

  • Time
  • Rounds + reps
  • Load
  • Calories
  • Rx / Scaled
CrossFit coaching in Strength Academy

CrossFit is a registered trademark of CrossFit, LLC. Strength Academy is not affiliated with or endorsed by CrossFit, LLC.

HYROX

HYROX sessions are built from runs and the eight race stations: SkiErg, sled push, sled pull, burpees, rowing, farmers carry, lunges and wall balls. Target paces or watts can come from the athlete’s 5K, 10K or erg results, and squat and sled strength days sit in the same week. Athletes log each race with its division, finish time and partners, and the coach sees race times next to station bests and run kilometres.

  • Station bests
  • Run PRs
  • Rower and SkiErg times
  • Division and finish time
HYROX coaching in Strength Academy

HYROX is a trademark of Upsolut Sports AG. Strength Academy is not affiliated with or endorsed by HYROX.

Hypertrophy

Hypertrophy programs use supersets, circuits and week-to-week progression rules that add sets or raise the percentage or RPE target. For programs set to hypertrophy, the client’s page counts the sets each muscle group got and flags any group under eight sets for the period. Coaches set calorie and macro targets. Clients log the weight and reps of every set, their bodyweight, and front, side and back progress photos in the same app.

  • Weight × reps
  • Sets per muscle group
  • Bodyweight
  • Progress photos
  • Calories and macros
Hypertrophy coaching in Strength Academy

Running

Runs are prescribed by type (zone 2, tempo, intervals, fartlek, time trial and more) and by distance or time. The target pace comes from the runner’s 5K, 10K, half marathon or marathon PR, with a heart-rate zone on top. Runners can record runs with GPS in the iOS or Android app, with per-kilometre splits and a route map, and the coach follows weekly kilometres against the plan, the pace trend and PRs.

  • Race PRs
  • Pace
  • Heart-rate zones
  • Per-km splits
  • Weekly km
Running coaching in Strength Academy

A sample hybrid week

A week from one of our own half marathon plans for a hybrid athlete: two strength days, one interval session, an easy run with a short circuit, and two optional runs at the weekend.

Monday
Romanian deadlift 3 × 6 and bench press 3 × 6, both at RPE 7. Lat pulldown 3 × 12, leg curl 3 × 12, hip abduction and adduction superset 3 × 15.
Tuesday
Intervals: 4 × 1,200 m at 10K effort with 2–3 minutes of easy jogging between, after a 10–15 minute warm-up and before a 10-minute cool-down.
Wednesday
Back squat 3 × 6 at RPE 7. Barbell row 3 × 10, Arnold press 3 × 12, leg extension 3 × 12, 45° back extension 3 × 12.
Thursday
Rest.
Friday
Easy zone 2 run, 30 minutes. Then a 12-minute AMRAP at a steady pace: 250 m row, 15 air squats, 10 handstand push-ups, 30-second plank.
Saturday
Optional: 3 × 1 km at 5K effort with about 3 minutes of jogging between. Run it only if Tuesday left the legs fresh, otherwise run easy or rest.
Sunday
Optional long run: 45 minutes in zone 2 at a pace you can talk at.

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