Terms (Soft Launch)

Last updated: November 15, 2026

1. Test version. Approach Strength is free and in an early test, run by Ryan Parker ("we"). It may change, have bugs, or stop.
2. Eligibility. 13+. Under 18 requires a signed parent/guardian consent form on file with the coach of each team. Coaches are 18+ and must accept §4 before recording consent or running testing days.
3. Training risk. Strength and conditioning training, including jump tests and strength checks, can cause injury. Approach Strength gives general training information, not medical advice. Learn new lifts with a qualified coach, use weights you can control, never grind out a rep, and stop if something hurts. You (or your parent, for minors) accept these risks.
4. Coach Terms. If you use Approach Strength as a coach, you agree to the following. You accept them with a separate checkbox when you create or next use a coach account, and we record the version and date.
   1. You run your training. Approach Strength is a tool. You decide what your athletes do, and you're responsible for the programs you post or edit, how they're carried out, and supervising your athletes, as your school, club, or role requires. The app's limits (levels, caps, rest floors, testing rules) are minimums, not a substitute for your judgment.
   2. Permission. You're allowed to coach the athletes you invite. Before any athlete under 18 logs anything, you have written approval to use Approach Strength with your team from your school (athletic director or principal) or club director, and you send us a copy at ryan@approachstrength.com. You follow your school's or club's rules, including any app-approval, phone, and screen rules.
   3. Parent consent. You give each parent the current Approach Strength consent form, record exactly the boxes they checked, keep the signed form, and email us a copy. You never record consent you don't have. You remove anyone you learn is under 13 and tell us.
   4. Athlete readiness. You only include athletes cleared to train under your school's or club's rules (for example, a current sports physical where required). You set and confirm each athlete's experience level honestly. Strength checks for minors unlock only at a level you've confirmed as intermediate or advanced.
   5. Testing days. You personally supervise every testing day, with safety bars or spotters set, before confirming supervision in the app. You stop any set when form breaks, and you never run a true one-rep max with minors.
   6. Safety and emergencies. You follow your school's or club's emergency, injury, and concussion procedures. Approach Strength isn't an emergency or medical service. If an athlete is hurt during a session run with Approach Strength, you tell us at ryan@approachstrength.com within 72 hours (no medical details needed: date, team, what session, and that it was reported to the school or club).
   7. Athlete data. You use athletes' data only to coach them. You don't copy, export, screenshot, post, or share it outside your team and its parents, and you don't use it for recruiting, discipline, or anything unrelated to training. You keep your login private and sign out on shared devices.
   8. Screens. You don't show the coach board on school- or district-owned screens or networks unless your school has approved it, and you make sure only your team can see it.
   9. Your duties stay yours. Nothing in these Terms changes your duties to your athletes, your school or club, or the law (including any mandated-reporter duties). We don't monitor athletes and can't do those things for you.

   4A. Responsibility for claims. To the extent the law allows, you agree to defend and indemnify Ryan Parker (and any business he forms to run Approach Strength) against claims, losses, and reasonable legal costs arising from (a) your breach of §4, (b) training or testing you programmed, ran, or supervised, or (c) your misuse of athlete data. This doesn't cover claims caused by a defect in the app itself or by our own negligence. If your employer or club doesn't allow you to accept this paragraph, tell us before using Approach Strength with athletes.

5. Boards. Team boards rank effort, never strength or bodies. Don't screenshot or share boards outside the team.
6. Your content. You own what you log. You let us store it and show it to you, your coach, and (for board items) your teammates, to run the app. Coaches own the programs they create.
7. Acceptable use. No sharing others' data, no harassment, no trying to access other teams' data, no signing or filling in a consent form for someone else.
8. Ending use. You can delete your account anytime. We can suspend accounts that break these terms or belong to someone under 13. We can suspend a coach account that breaks §4, which pauses that team.
9. Limits. To the extent the law allows, Approach Strength is provided "as is," without warranties, and we aren't liable for indirect or consequential damages. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that can't be limited by law, including for gross negligence or willful misconduct.
10. Contact: ryan@approachstrength.com