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title: "Releasing a new plan"
description: "Build a client's new training and nutrition plan as a private draft that saves itself, then release it all at once."
locale: sk
category: trainer-guides
slug: releasing-plans
updatedAt: 2026-06-13
translation: pending
---
# Releasing a new plan

When you rebuild a client's plan, you don't edit what they're looking at live. Instead you work in a **private draft**: a copy of their current training program and nutrition plan that only you can see. You rebuild it at your own pace, and the client keeps following their existing plan until you **release** the new one - at which point both the training and nutrition changes go live together.

## Start a draft

Open a client and look at the top-right of their header. With no draft in progress you'll see **Create program draft**. Click it and confirm - we copy the client's current training program and nutrition plan into a draft you can rebuild. Nothing the client sees changes yet.

## Editing a draft - it saves itself

While a draft is open, the **Program** and **Nutrition plan** tabs edit the draft, not the live plan. You'll notice:

- A soft lavender **frame** around the editor, labelled **Program draft** / **Nutrition plan draft**, with the reminder that changes aren't visible to the client.
- **No "Save changes" button.** Edits save themselves a moment after you pause - the status reads **Saving…** and then **Saved just now**. You can move between the Program and Nutrition tabs, close the page, or come back tomorrow; your draft is waiting.
- A **banner above the tabs** and a small **action bar pinned to the bottom-right**, both carrying **Discard** and **Release** so you can publish without scrolling back up.

Any **coach note** you write on the program or nutrition section while drafting is part of the draft too - the client only sees it once you release.

## Release or discard

- **Release** publishes the draft training and nutrition plans at once. The client's current plan is archived, they see the new one, and they get a "new plan" prompt the next time they open the app.
- **Discard** throws the draft away. The client's current plan stays exactly as it was.

## The live plan is read-only

When there's no draft in progress, a client's Program and Nutrition tabs show the **live** plan for reference, but you can't edit it directly - there's no Save bar. To make any change, click **Create program draft** and edit the draft. This keeps you from accidentally pushing half-finished changes straight to the client.

> Building **library templates** (under **Library** and **Nutrition → Meal plans**) is different - those still use a **Save** button, because a template isn't tied to a client and has nothing to release.