Kahunas alternative for bodybuilding coaches: what a prep needs each week and who publishes it.

Nine platforms compared on the weekly prep work

Each cell says what that vendor's own page publishes, fetched on 12 November 2026, with the page linked. Where we write "we did not find it", we mean it was not on the pages we read, not that the product lacks it. Quoted words are the vendor's. Marketing claims such as "number one" are the vendor's claims, not ours. Ours is in the second row, from our own pages.

Sources are linked in the first column. All checked 12 November 2026. Scroll the table sideways on a phone.

What Kahunas publishes for a prep coach

Kahunas has no bodybuilding or physique page in its sitemap (checked 12 November 2026). Its general feature pages describe tools for the weekly loop, and two of them are things we do not claim for Coachway: comparing against any earlier check-in, and a season planner.

• Compare with an earlier check-in you choose. Per kahunas.io/features/check-ins, each answer sits next to an earlier one, and a "Plan in place" row shows which training and nutrition plans were active, with a badge when a plan changed. Its example row shows the nutrition plan the client was on at each check-in.
• Metric charts. Per kahunas.io/features/metrics, every number and rating question becomes a chart. Its examples include weight, waist, sleep and HRV.
• Daily numbers. Check-ins repeat weekly, every two weeks or every four weeks. Its habits page describes number habits such as morning weight on one daily form.
• Macros by day. Per kahunas.io/features/nutrition, you type calories and macros for each day and see each logged day against target.
• A season planner. Per kahunas.io/features/roadmaps, Roadmap assigns each phase's workout plan on its start day. It is included from 25 clients.

Price favours Kahunas too: USD 5.00 per seat a month for 3 to 24 seats, falling to USD 0.50, and 0 percent commission on your sales (kahunas.io/pricing, checked 12 November 2026). See the Kahunas pricing breakdown. For what Kahunas says its 2.0 update changed, see our Kahunas 2.0 explainer. If your prep clients are happy on Kahunas, staying is a sensible choice.

Where Coachway fits a physique coach, and where it does not

• One check-in card. Weight with its change, each rating with its change since the last check-in, photos with zoom and Before and after, the answers, and Mark as reviewed. You reply in the same thread, by text or voice note.
• A photo studio. Pick any two dates and view them side by side or as a slider you drag. Get the client's OK before you post them.
• The trend. Weight charted with a weekly average line and a goal line, next to a measurements table and progress photos.
• Macros by weekday. Targets by weekday and a calorie calculator per client. Clients log from about 3.7 million foods or a barcode scan.
• Late check-ins stand out. Filter the client list by new check-ins, missing check-ins and unread messages.

The limits, so you can rule us out fast:

• Numbers in a check-in compare with the last check-in. We do not claim a pick-any-earlier-check-in table. The photo studio does cover any two dates.
• We do not claim a season or phase planner on this page.
• Coachway costs more per client than Kahunas. It takes 2.4 percent per transaction plus Stripe's fees, and there is no free plan.
• There is no white-label app. Your clients use the Coachway app. Your logo and colours go on the progress images you share, not inside the app.

More in our guides to client progress pictures and adjusting client macros.

Peak week: what the software has to do, and what the vendors say

We searched the pages in the table for peak week, contest prep and posing. The nearest were TrueCoach's "show-ready" and Hevy Coach's "preparing to step on stage". No page describes a peak week feature, and we will not invent one for any platform, ours included.

What peak week asks of software is small. A daily number from the client: Kahunas check-ins repeat weekly or longer, with daily numbers through habits, and HubFit lists daily check-ins. Macro targets you can change by day, which Kahunas, Coachway and HubFit each describe. And a same-day reply, by text or voice. How you run peak week is a coaching decision. We make no claim about any federation's rules or any coach's method.

How to test a platform with one prep client in one week

Per their own pages on 12 November 2026: Kahunas gives 14 days, takes a card at sign-up and says it charges nothing until the trial ends, followed by what it calls a 3-month money-back guarantee; TrueCoach gives 14 days, no credit card required; Hevy Coach and My PT Hub give 30 days, no credit card required; HubFit and TrainerStudio have free plans. Terms change, so read the sign-up screen.

1. Use one real client who agrees to it. Never test in the last two weeks before a show.
2. Send a real check-in with three photo angles, weight and waist. Time your review.
3. Open week one and this week side by side. Can you do it without leaving the page?
4. Change macros for a training day and a rest day. Does the client see it at once?
5. Reply by text and by voice. Check where the reply lands.
6. After three entries, is the weight shown as an average, not just a list?

If you decide to leave Kahunas, our how to switch from Kahunas guide covers what Kahunas documents for exporting client data. Do the move in an off-season week.