Getting Started with LatticePlan

How to start your free trial, complete the sign-up quiz, and set up your first LatticePlan.

Download the app and start your free trial

You can start your free trial two ways: on our website at web.latticetraining.com/welcome, or via the Lattice Training app. You can download the app from Google Play or the Apple App Store.

You can choose to create a new account, or sign in with your existing one if you've used our app before. From there, the app walks you through a short setup quiz so it can build your plan – see The sign-up quiz below.

You'll be asked for your card details, but no money is taken until your trial ends. Your trial gives you the full LatticePlan to try for 7 days, and you can skip ahead in your plan weeks to see what's coming, though later weeks can shift as your plan adapts to your check-ins.

You can check your payment renewal date any time in your profile, under Account and App Settings – Manage Subscription.

The sign-up quiz

Before we build your plan, we ask a few questions so we can build the plan around your goals, experience, and available time and equipment. It only takes a few minutes.

The quiz starts with your goal. You pick what you want from your training, then answer a handful of follow-up questions that change depending on what you chose, so you only answer what's relevant. See Choosing your goal at setup below.

We ask about your climbing experience and recent grades, your date of birth and body metrics, your equipment and training preferences, how many training and climbing days you'd like, and when you'd like to start.

Everyone sees this version of the quiz, whether you're new or returning. If you're generating a new plan after finishing one, you'll go through it again so your next plan matches where you are now.

Choosing your goal at setup

Your plan is built around what you're training for. You can choose one of the following:

• Build strength and fitness – long-term improvement, and you're happy to work hard even if you feel tired at times.
• Feel good climbing – perform well now and stay fresh, rather than push into hard training.
• Peak for an event, trip or project – you have a trip or season starting within 12 weeks and want to be ready for it.

Whichever you choose, you will be asked relevant follow-up questions to help the app build you the perfect plan to train for your goals.

Behind the scenes, your goal shapes how long your plan runs, its end-date options, and how many training days we suggest.

You will also be asked about your main climbing discipline(s), when you would like to start your plan and how many weeks you would like it to last.

Your training preferences

Two climbers can train for the same thing in very different ways. Training preferences let you tell us how you'd rather train, so your plan leans towards the styles you enjoy and your available equipment.

You set a preference across a few areas, for example board work or bouldering for strength, or routes or boulders for endurance, and there's a no-preference option on each if you don't mind either way.

This works hand in hand with your equipment – we'll only lean towards what you can do.

Training focus

As well as your goal, you can tell us the area you'd like your plan to lean into, then we weight your training towards it. Choose from:

• Forearm fitness
• Finger strength
• Balanced – for a mixture of both

Pick the one that matches what you want to prioritise, or keep it balanced. This is just the start for focus, with more options in the pipeline.

Ramp weeks

A ramp week is a lighter first 7 days. It lets your body settle into the training load and lowers your injury risk before things step up.

On your very first plan, a ramp week is included and can't be skipped. On any plan you generate after that, you can choose to skip it and dive straight in.

You'll be able to see if you're in a ramp week in the Plan tab, in your Weekly Breakdown.

Choosing how many days to train

Off the back of your quiz responses, the app will suggest the optimal number of days to train. You have the option to alter this to better suit your needs. 'Home training days' are a good choice where you don't have access to any climbing walls, as the app will not give you climbing workouts on your home training days.

Some of you will be lucky enough to have your own climbing boards at home. In this instance, you can choose 'training days' and set your equipment preferences to 'board'.

What equipment do I need for a LatticePlan?

To build you a full plan we need you to have access to at least a bouldering wall or board, and a fingerboard or pick-up edge. Having additional equipment like barbells, dumbbells, kettlebells, a pull-up bar, resistance bands, TRX/rings, or a weight rack and bench will give you more variety and options in your plan.

If you don't have climbing wall access, you can choose 'home training days' at setup.

You tell us during setup. In the starting quiz we ask where you train and what's available. You can set up a home location, a gym location, or both. Toggle on what you've got – we've pre-selected sensible defaults, so for most people it's a quick confirm. It takes under a minute.

Your plan is built around it. Every session is generated to fit your setup, based on the equipment you have and the session types you've chosen.

Changing your equipment. Your equipment is locked in when your plan generates, so changes you make in your profile (equipment and preferences) don't affect the plan you're currently on. To update it, end your current plan and create a new one, and your fresh plan will be built around the new setup.

"There's a workout I don't have the equipment for." Every so often the plan might include a workout that needs something you haven't got. When it happens, use Switch Workouts to swap it.