What to look at in a training log before writing the next block
A short routine for reading what a client logged so the next block starts from the right numbers, and what a spreadsheet makes hard to see.
Did the work happen
Before any number, look at how much of the block was done. A client who logged three weeks out of four is a different starting point from one who logged three sessions, and the log tells you which without a conversation.
The same applies to gaps inside a week. Two of four sets logged on a lift is a fact worth knowing before you write five sets of it.
Where it differed from the plan
Next, find the sets where what they did is not what was written: a lighter bar, fewer reps, a lift skipped. One of those is a question for the client. The same one three weeks running is information about the plan.
A jump the other way matters too. If a set came in well above what was asked, that is the number the next block should start from, and it is the one most easily missed when the log lives in a column you have to scroll for.
Pick the starting set for each lift
For each lift, the next block starts from one real set. Take the best working set from a normal week, not from the lighter one, and not from what was prescribed if they did something else.
What you do with that set is coaching, and it is yours: hold it, build from it, or change the lift entirely. Finding it is admin, and it is the part that takes the time.
Why this is slow in a spreadsheet
Every step above is a lookup across tabs, and each client has their own. The work is not hard. It is finding the row, then doing it again nineteen more times.
CoachBlocks keeps what was asked and what was logged in the same cell of the same table, marks the sets that differ, and starts the next block from the best real set on its own. The reading is still yours. The finding is not.
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