I just put up a 6-minute video walking through how I leave form feedback on a client’s workout video inside Assistant Coach. If you’d rather watch the workflow than read about it, this post is the place to start.

The video is the show-don’t-tell version of what I think asynchronous form coaching should feel like: every comment anchored to the exact second of the lift, drawings rendered on the frame, reference photos attached, and the client seeing all of it the moment they open their workout log.

Key Takeaways

  • 6-minute single-take walkthrough of a real form-review session inside Assistant Coach — coach side and client side, nothing staged
  • Every comment auto-screenshots the exact frame, auto-pins to the second, and supports drawings and reference image attachments — no typing timestamps, no separate apps, no scrubbing
  • The client sees comments anchored to the right second in the video, drawings rendered on the frame, and a notification on the bell the moment the review is posted
  • Same workflow on the Assistant Coach mobile app — coaches can review on desktop while clients view feedback on their phone before the next session
  • Free tier (15 clients) — the same form-review workflow shown in the video, no paywall

Prefer YouTube? Watch it on the channel here.

What’s in the video

The point of the walkthrough is to show one complete form review end-to-end — from opening the client’s pending workout log to the client receiving the feedback on their side. Chapters jump you straight to the moment you care about:

The client log in the walkthrough is a pull-up set I logged from the client side first — a deliberately simple session so the focus stays on the review workflow, not on the lift itself.

Why I recorded this

Form review is the part of online coaching that loses the most in translation from the gym floor. In person, you watch the set, you call the cue mid-rep, you correct in real time. Online, the client sends you a 30-second clip after the session and you reply hours later — often with a voice memo, a long text, or a Loom recording that has no anchor to the moment the form broke down.

I have lived all three of those workflows. The same things kept going wrong:

  • The client had to scrub through their own video to find which second I was talking about
  • Voice memos sounded helpful in the moment but were impossible to refer back to a week later
  • Reference photos I sent over WhatsApp got lost in the chat thread within days
  • I had no record of what I had already corrected, so I would repeat the same cue across multiple sessions

The form-review builder in Assistant Coach is what I wanted instead: tap once at the frame you care about, sketch the cue, attach a reference if you need to, and post. The client gets a notification, opens the workout, and sees everything anchored to the right second — on their phone, the moment they open the app.

I sat down with one client log and recorded the whole review in one take. The pace is the pace I actually work at.

If the workflow looks useful and you want the deeper context, these are the most relevant posts:

Try the same view yourself

Assistant Coach has a free tier with up to 15 clients, so the form-review workflow you see in the video is exactly what you get when you sign up. Add a client, ask them to log a workout with a form video, and the review screen in the walkthrough is the one you will be looking at.

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More walkthroughs are coming — new video in the series every week, covering a different part of the coaching workflow. Subscribe on YouTube if you want to follow along.