Liftspan opens on the web
The first version of Liftspan: a strength coach that builds your plan around your goal, your room and the joints you flag, then tells you what to lift every session.
A plan built for you
Answer a few questions about your goal, where you train and how many days you have, and Liftspan builds your week. Each session tells you the exercise, sets, reps and weight, and the weight moves up as you earn it.
How to use it: Getting started in the help manual
One-screen workouts
Rather read it? The walkthrough, step by step
- Here is how a session works.
- On Today, tap Start workout.
- Lift, then tap the circle to tick the set. Weight and reps are already filled in.
- Rate it: Easy, Right or Hard. It sizes your next jump.
- Your rest timer starts on its own. Add time, or skip it.
- Work through the list. When you are done, tap Finish workout.
- Next time, every weight moves up when you have earned it.
The whole session sits on one scrolling screen. Each exercise shows what you lifted last time, and barbell moves show the plates to put on each side. Tick the circle when a set is done.
How to use it: Doing a workout in the help manual
Easy, Right or Hard
Rather read it? The walkthrough, step by step
- You never have to guess what to lift next.
- Each move has a rep range. Add a rep or two as it gets easier.
- Hit the top of the range on every set, and next week the weight goes up a step.
- Easy, Right or Hard after each set sizes the jump. A hard week holds.
- Every block ends with a lighter deload week, so your body catches up.
- Small steps, every week, for years. Not medical advice.
After each set, tap Easy, Right or Hard. Liftspan adjusts the rest of today's sets and uses your ratings to size next week's jump.
How to use it: How your weights go up in the help manual
Warm-up sets, supersets and PRs
Warm-up sets appear before your heavier lifts. Supersets pair moves that work opposite muscles to save time, and you can switch them off. Beat your best on a lift and you get a PR celebration.
How to use it: Doing a workout in the help manual
Train anywhere
Rather read it? The walkthrough, step by step
- Gym today, hotel next week? Your plan follows you.
- On Today, tap Setup under your lineup.
- Pick the room you are in. Here, a hotel gym.
- Every move now fits that room, and your weights carry over.
Full gym, home gym, hotel, bodyweight, dumbbells or bands. Switch rooms and the weights you have worked up to carry across.
How to use it: Where you train in the help manual
Something not working the way this says? Email dave@liftspan.fit. Not medical advice: if something hurts, stop.