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Ægir Iron vs TrainHeroic
Both connect coaches and athletes, but they are built around different models. TrainHeroic is a marketplace and team-delivery platform; Ægir Iron is a direct coach-and-athlete strength platform where the athletes you program for train free.
What TrainHeroic does well
TrainHeroic is a coaching and programming marketplace. Coaches and gyms build training and publish it, either to their own teams or to a public marketplace, and athletes subscribe to a team or a programmed track and get workouts pushed to their phone, often with leaderboards, team feeds, and a strong community layer. For a coach who wants to sell programming at scale, or an athlete who wants to buy into an established team's programming and follow along, it is a capable, well-built platform with a large catalog.
Where Ægir Iron differs
TrainHeroic centers on marketplace distribution and team delivery; Ægir Iron (also written Aegir Iron) centers on strength-sport programming depth and a direct coach-to-athlete relationship. The programming is specialized for the barbell: percentage-of-1RM loading priced live from each lifter's training maxes, real Cycle / Block / Week / Day periodization into a meet peak, and auto-progression that advances training maxes from logged AMRAP sets and reprices the plan in one tap. It adds meet planning with attempt selection and competition scoring across Wilks, DOTS, IPF GL, and Sinclair, plus honest load analytics (uncoupled ACWR with an EWMA companion, relative intensity zones, make rate from logged misses). The economics are different too: on Ægir Iron individual lifters and every athlete on a coach's roster train free, and only the coach pays, by roster size, rather than each athlete subscribing. Programs sync to athletes in real time over a single invite link.
| Feature | Ægir Iron | TrainHeroic |
|---|---|---|
| Model | Direct coach-and-athlete platform | Marketplace + team delivery |
| Who pays | Coach only, by roster size; athletes free | Athletes/teams subscribe; marketplace fees |
| Strength-sport programming | % of 1RM from maxes, meet peak, auto-progression | General programming across many sports |
| Meet planning & scoring | Attempts + Wilks, DOTS, IPF GL, Sinclair | Not a focus |
| Load & intensity analytics | ACWR with EWMA companion, % of 1RM zones, make rate | Team tracking & leaderboards |
| Sports covered | Powerlifting, weightlifting, strongman, calisthenics | Broad, team-sport heavy |
| Real-time athlete sync | Yes, one invite link | Yes, within a team/track |
| Cost for individual lifters | Free, full platform | Typically a paid subscription |
Pricing and features reflect public information at the time of writing and may change. Check each app for the latest.
Who should pick which
If you want a marketplace to sell programming at scale, or you want to buy into an established team's programmed track, TrainHeroic is built for that. If you coach powerlifters, weightlifters, or strongman athletes directly and want deep strength-sport programming, meet prep, and scoring, with your athletes training free and only you paying by roster size, Ægir Iron is the closer fit.