Percentage-based programming software

The problem this solves

Percentage-based programming is straightforward for one athlete and turns into an arithmetic job for a roster. Twelve lifters on four main lifts across eight weeks is 48 reference maxes and well over a thousand individual prescribed weights.

The arithmetic is simple, but the volume creates mistakes: a formula pasted one row short, a max updated in one tab but not another, or an athlete training outdated weights for two weeks.

Cleanpull holds the progression in one place and the maxes in another, and does the multiplication for you.

How it works

Draw the progression once

Lay out sets, reps, and intensity across the block. Everyone assigned to it follows the same maintained progression.

Need a starting structure? The eight-week percentage-based block template includes the full progression and adjustment guidance.

Each athlete reads it through their own numbers

An athlete's working weight is their max times the prescribed percentage. Ten athletes on the same block train at ten different weights that mean roughly the same thing to each of them.

Copied templates begin to drift as soon as a plan changes. A shared progression lets you edit week five once for everyone assigned to it. More on the distinction.

Loads round to what the bar can make

Percentages produce numbers like 113.44 kg. Set the bar's increment from the smallest plate pair available, then round each prescription to a load the athlete can make. Rounding down by default avoids turning a heavy target into an accidental max attempt.

A changed max updates only that athlete

When someone tests higher in week three, their remaining sessions recalculate. The rest of the roster stays on its existing numbers.

Finished sessions arrive in one queue

Completed work lands in a review queue with the lifts, reps, loads, and effort targets attached. The coach can work through the week without reconstructing it from messages and notebooks.

Which lifts

The powerlifts and their variations, the Olympic lifts and theirs, and the accessory work around them. Each lift carries its own reference max, because front squat percentages derived from a back squat max are wrong by an amount that varies per athlete.

Percentage conventions differ between the two families. Powerlifting blocks live comfortably at 80–90% for weeks; weightlifting volume concentrates lower, between 70% and 85%, because the classic lifts fail technically before they fail muscularly. The full guide covers this.

What it does not do

• No nutrition, habit, or lifestyle coaching.
• No client billing, invoicing, or scheduling.
• No marketplace for selling programs.
• No leaderboards or institutional reporting.
• No AI program generation. You write the block.

Pricing

Plans are per workspace, and the owner does not consume a member slot.

• Free — the owner plus 3 other members. $0.
• Pro — up to 30 members. $15/month or $150/year.
• Studio — up to 500 members. $100/month or $999/year.

Coaches and athletes both count toward the limit, and a pending invitation holds a slot until accepted or revoked. Each workspace you own carries its own plan. Athletes never pay for a roster spot.

Coming from a spreadsheet

Keep the spreadsheet while it still lets you make changes promptly. When routine edits start taking forty minutes and getting postponed, software may save enough maintenance to justify the move. More on that threshold.