Make it yours

Your profile is where your identity in the app lives: your name, your role or roles, and the coach connections you have. A single account can be an athlete, a coach, or both at once, and your profile shows which apply to you.

If you are connected to a coach, that connection appears here with its status, and you add a coach by entering their 6-character code. Connecting and disconnecting is always mutual, so both sides see the same picture. Your own athletes, if you coach, live on the Athletes tab.

Roles are not a switch you flip and lose. A coach can do everything an athlete can, track their own workouts, keep their own templates, and be coached by someone else, plus the coach-only work. So being both is simply the full picture, not two accounts to juggle.

Pick the units you think in. Weights show in kilograms or pounds, and the choice applies everywhere, from logging a set to reading a chart. Decimal weights use your locale format, so a comma or a point both work where they belong.

You also choose how you describe effort. RPE and RIR are both first-class in Ironstead, and the app never forces one on you. Set your preferred scale here and it becomes the default when you log a set. You can still read and enter the other scale wherever it appears.

The app offers two accent colors, blue and orange. By default the accent follows your role, coaches get orange and athletes blue, and you can override it. The interface itself is dark, easy on the eyes under gym lighting.

One note on this website: unlike the app, the site you are reading keeps a single fixed look. The accent choice lives in the app, not here.

Set a weekly training goal, for example three sessions, and the app tracks how you're doing against it. A streak counts the run of weeks that met the goal.

The goal is yours to set and change at any time. Raise it when training is going well, lower it in a busy stretch.

Ironstead speaks English by default and German is available. Your choice follows your account, so the app reads the way you prefer wherever you sign in. Screen labels, hints and messages all switch together.

This guide, and the whole website, offers the same two languages. Use the language switch in the header to read it in English or German.

An account with the coach role carries one extra entry in the settings menu: Mode, with a single choice between viewing the app as Coach or as Athlete. Athlete view hides the coach screens, so you get the app the way the people you coach get it. It is the fastest way to check what a change actually looks like on their side.

It changes your view and nothing else. Your roles stay as they are, your athletes keep access to their plans and to everything you assigned, and nobody is told you switched. If you still coach active athletes, the app names how many before it makes the change.

The mode holds until you change it back. Signing out resets it to coach view, so the next sign-in on a shared device never inherits somebody else view.

You control what reaches you and what the app keeps. Notifications are opt-in and you decide which ones you want. Privacy settings govern your data, and a coach only ever sees the athletes connected to them.

Your account is yours to keep or to close. The app supports exporting your data and deleting your account outright, which removes your data.

• Notifications: turn each type on or off; none are forced on you.
• Data export: take a copy of your data with you at any time.
• Account deletion: close your account and remove your data outright.

Questions about settings

Do I have to use RPE, or can I use RIR?

Either. RPE and RIR are both first-class and the app never forces one. Set your preferred scale in units and scales; it becomes your default, and you can still read or enter the other scale anywhere.

Can I change the app colors?

Yes, in the app. It offers a blue or an orange accent, defaulting to your role, and you can override it. This website itself keeps one fixed look; the accent choice lives in the app.

How do I delete my account?

The app supports deleting your account, which removes your data. You can also export your data first. You are never locked in.