Training program architecture by Athletic Lab
Why ALTA is different
Other training apps put you in a box. ALTA was built for coaches in the real world who don't want to compromise. In addition to an extensive exercise library, you can build whatever you can think of. Never fake a complex in the notes field or sub out the agility session you intend to do for the one your app limits you to.
Every coach shares the same robust, governed library ensuring consistency regardless of the programmer. Want to add your own exercises? ALTA lets you do that too!
Weightlifting
Program the hang power snatch from the block with a pause, a clean pull plus a hang clean plus a jerk, or a three-position complex — without building a new exercise every time. ALTA layers governed modifiers onto prime lifts and treats complexes as ordered, repeatable objects with reps per step. Your library stays clean as it grows, and every athlete gets the right load from their own numbers.
Speed, agility & conditioning
Most platforms bolt running onto a lifting app. ALTA prescribes speed, change of direction and conditioning with the detail those qualities demand - starts, segments, distances, physiologically-based targets, heart-rate and machine work, and game-based conditioning - all in the same session as the athlete's lift.
The difference
| Capability | Typical training apps | ALTA |
|---|---|---|
| Weightlifting derivatives | A separate exercise for every variation | Governed variants layered on prime lifts |
| Complexes | Typed into notes or fudged as supersets | Ordered objects with reps per step |
| Speed sessions | Generic 'sprint' exercise with a time field | Starts, segments, distances and splits |
| Conditioning | Duration or distance only | MAS-based, heart-rate, machine and game-based |
| Team delivery | One athlete per device | 1–4 athletes per shared iPad, many stations at once |
| Offline | Needs signal to log | Logs offline, syncs when signal returns |
| Program migration | Manual re-entry | AI import from PDF or Excel |
Team training
Run a full group from shared iPads. One to four athletes per station switch with one tap, log their own loads and times, and follow one shared timer. Every result lands on the right athlete, and multiple stations run at once.
Athlete experience
Athletes see prescribed reps and loads calculated from their own maxes, watch exercise videos, run rest/work timers with sound and vibration, and log sets with no signal.
For performance leaders
Your exercises, variants and complexes are defined once and used by every coach, so your methodology survives staff turnover.
Schedule by athlete or group, drag to move, shift-drag to copy, copy whole training blocks to a new start date, and publish weeks of training in minutes.
Testing batteries, estimated 1RM, velocity and speed segments, and trend charts that show whether training is working.
Messaging, wellness check-ins and pain flags surface the athletes who need attention before the next session.
Coach, staff, admin and athlete roles control who can write, edit and see what. Every organization's data is fully isolated.
Import existing programs from PDF or Excel with AI and be coaching from ALTA this week.
Who it's for
Keep one standard across coaches, squads and training blocks with role-based access.
Run many teams and sites under one governed library with reporting across the whole program.
Prescribe prime lifts, derivatives, complexes and sprint work with the precision those disciplines demand.
Deliver professional programming to in-house groups and remote athletes without spreadsheets or PDF hand-offs.
New in ALTA
One to four athletes share an iPad with quick switching, separate results and one shared timer; multiple iPads run concurrently.
Background-safe timers with sound, haptics and lock-screen alerts; rest auto-starts only from coach prescriptions.
Performance and Enterprise plans import PDF or Excel programs into ALTA with AI.
Copy whole training spans to a new start date while preserving rest-day spacing.