commence

Effortlessly log your workouts

Commence is an app for the people. Programmes as complex as you like, built by you or curated by experienced coaches. With no aggressive monetization or advertising, all features are available to you. Some coaches charge for their programmes. Complex AI features are paid.

Training

Streamlined training.

Build your own programme or pick up a free expert one, or follow one a coach wrote for you. The app will work around your needs.

Programmes

Advanced programme creation features allowing you to design and express what you need without barriers. And if you're looking for something specialised we will be providing free expert programmes for you.
Interactive sessions

The app takes you through your session with all the information you need visible and no friction.
Exercise Database

If you're ever unsure about how you are to perform an exercise click and get detailed instructions and videos.
Community

Every exercise carries clips posted by the community with form, cues and variations, voted for by everyone else.
Insights

New insights into your performance and progress to help encourage you and give you something to think about.
Highly Customizable Programmes and Exercises

Create and customize your own programmes and exercises to fit your unique training needs. Every single set can be configured to the specific type you want. Dropsets, rest-pause, cluster-sets and supersetting are all natively supported.

The programme builder: a Week 1 card with Push and Pull days, and a searchable exercise list being added to the Push day.

Smart Coach

Tell it what you've got. Get a programme.

Eight questions — your goal, the equipment you can reach, the days you can train and how long you've actually got — and Smart Coach writes the whole thing for you to look over.

Ask for changes in plain words

Heavier on legs, drop the Friday session, swap the barbell work for dumbbells — it revises the programme it wrote rather than starting again from nothing.
It follows up

Tell it how training is actually going and it either proposes a revision or says plainly that nothing needs changing. Turn check-ins on and it comes and asks you first.

Step 1 of the Smart Coach wizard, asking what you are training for, with Athleticism picked and a box for saying it in your own words.

Offline

If your gym is a signalless vault no issues.

Everything you read comes off the phone, everything you write is queued on it, so a session never waits on a network that isn't there.

Nothing waits on a request

Logging a set makes no server call at all, online or off. It's saved on the phone and the app moves on — there's no spinner between sets.
It catches up on its own

Whatever you logged, saved or changed while offline is replayed in order the moment you're back, so nothing arrives ahead of the thing it depends on.
The whole app, not just logging

Programmes, exercises and your history are all served from the phone's own copy, so the app opens and works with the signal off — and refreshes quietly once it's back.

The new exercise form: equipment chips, how the exercise is logged, and the muscles it works.

Coaching

Work with a real coach.

Coaching is a proper relationship in the app, not a chat window bolted onto it — your coach writes the training, sees the sessions and answers in the same place.

Coaches who write for you

Apply to a coach and they build and assign programmes made for you. You can hold up to ten coaches at once, for lifting, conditioning and everything between.
Messages and check-ins

One thread per coach, with photos and video attached to the message. Scheduled check-ins keep them in the picture between sessions.
Food programmes

A coach can write your week's eating alongside your training, day by day, in the same place you train from.

Progress

Watch it move.

Every workout you finish and every weigh-in you record, kept and charted. Watch your progress over time.

Workout history

A calendar marks every day you trained. Tap one to see exactly what you did — each exercise and set, how long it took and how much you lifted, with any notes you left. A programme day or a session made up on the spot, it's all kept.
Body progress

Weigh-ins, body fat and progress photos recorded over time and charted.

The Add Progress form: a weight field in kg, optional body fat, the date, a notes box and two buttons for attaching a photo.

In testing on Android.

Commence is in open testing on Google Play and free to install. The iPhone app is coming soon.

Coming to the App Store Open testing