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Workouts

When people choose training plans while tired, rushed or unsure what matters, the risk is decision overload before the workout starts. Flat18 shaped Workouts around onboarding, schedules, logging and recovery context so the next session is easier to choose and complete.

100+Exercise library

Searchable movements by equipment, muscle group, pattern, and skill level.

Split-awarePlan generation

Upper/lower, PPL, full-body, and flexible weekly structures based on availability.

RecoveryTraining context

Recent work and effort signals inform quick sessions and next-workout guidance.

Development journey

From training uncertainty to a guided workout system.

Flat18 treated Workouts as a decision-design problem. The app needed to help users choose a realistic plan, understand what to train next, log the detail that matters, and adapt when energy, recovery, or schedule quality inevitably deteriorates.

01 / Planning friction

Most training apps ask users to make too many decisions at the worst possible time.

People arrive at the gym tired, rushed, distracted, or wildly optimistic. The product needed to reduce choice overload without trapping users in a rigid plan.

02 / Product shape

We turned profile inputs into a practical weekly training system.

Goals, experience, availability, equipment, intensity and recovery context became a guided path into recommended splits, generated workout days, quick sessions, and plan adjustments.

03 / Feedback loop

The final product connects planning, logging, recovery, and progress into one loop.

Workouts keeps today’s session, set logging, exercise alternatives, recovery warnings, adherence, volume and progress signals close together so users can see what to do next.

Product surfaces

Designed around the moments where training plans usually fall apart.

Workouts is not just a logging screen with motivational wallpaper. Each surface answers a practical question: what plan fits me, what do I do today, how do I log it quickly, and am I actually making progress?

Session logging

Detailed enough to be useful, fast enough to use between sets.

The logger tracks sets, reps, weight, RIR, cues, and completion without forcing users to perform spreadsheet administration while holding dumbbells. A rare mercy.

Exercise library

Make substitutions less chaotic.

Users can search by muscle, equipment, movement pattern, and level when the gym has once again hidden the only cable attachment that matters.

Mobile use

Keep the plan usable where training actually happens.

The mobile view keeps the weekly plan, next actions, and session context readable in the gym rather than trapped in desktop theatre.

Brand assets

Share-ready art and compact iconography.

Workouts now has a dedicated share image and app icon, so the product stays clear on link previews, work tiles and smaller app surfaces.

Workouts Open Graph share image
Open Graph

Share image

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Workouts app icon
Icon

App icon

Use this in tight spaces such as featured work tiles and app-style surfaces where the mark needs to stay bold.

LiveDiagnosis: planning frictionSolution: guided weekly training systemOutcome: clearer next actions

Workouts sits between static plans and open-ended logging tools. Flat18 handled the product framing, onboarding flow, recommendation logic, training-plan interface, set logging, exercise library, progress surfaces, and mobile-first gym use cases.

Problem found

Many users know they should train consistently, but they do not know what to train today, how much volume is sensible, or how to adjust a missed session.

Flat18 diagnosis

The product needed to reduce gym-time decisions while preserving enough control for different goals, experience levels, recovery states, and weekly availability.

Solution shipped

We built onboarding, goal-aware recommendations, generated workout days, quick sessions, set logging, progress signals, and a searchable exercise library.

Customer value

Users can see what to train next, log the detail that matters, avoid obvious recovery clashes, and understand whether the week is on track.

What Flat18 handled

  • Converted profile inputs into practical schedule recommendations
  • Designed onboarding, plan, workout, logging, library, and progress views as one journey
  • Added recovery-aware guidance so quick sessions do not ignore recent training
  • Balanced detailed set logging with fast completion for rushed gym sessions

Key capabilities

  • Guided onboarding for goal, intensity, availability, and experience level
  • Recommended splits including upper/lower, push/pull/legs, full-body, and flexible options
  • Generated workout days with exercises, sets, reps, cues, and demo links
  • Set logging with reps, weight, RIR, and quick exercise completion
  • Progress dashboard for adherence, volume, effort, next workout, and coaching notes
  • Searchable exercise library with category, equipment, muscles, and skill level

Built for

BeginnersIntermediate liftersInconsistent schedulesData-led trainingMobile gym use
Training dashboard
Guided onboarding
Weekly plan
Session logging
Progress dashboard
Exercise library
Mobile plan view

Delivered for confidence

The selected work shows the full loop: setup, recommendation, weekly plan, workout execution, exercise discovery, and progress feedback.

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