Train Based on Your Recovery Status

The program is built from where your body is, not from a calendar. No excuses, no guesswork.

Your full-body session needs about 14 hours more. Slowest: quads.quads50%in 14 hglutes100%Readychest67%in 5 hlats67%in 5 hshoulders100%Readycore100%ReadyReady, 80%+RecoveringNeeds time
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Workout With Me app screens

Try it out for yourself

Demo data only, locked to a push/pull/legs program.

Which muscles feel crushed?

Tap the muscles that feel wrecked from your last session and I will plan around them.

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Nothing selected yet. Tap a few sore muscles, or generate anyway to see a fresh start.

In the app, the plan follows the map

S.H.A.R.P reads where each muscle stands and builds the next session from the ones past about 80% recovered. Nothing to reshuffle when your week changes.

Readiness picks the session
Readiness picks the session

Readiness picks the session

Every logged set feeds the body map, main movers more than helpers. What's ready goes into the next plan, and what's still recovering waits its turn.

Today gets a say too
Today gets a say too

Today gets a say too

Sleep, soreness and energy, three taps. A poor day gets a lighter plan, and a string of them can bring a deload forward. Skip it whenever you like.

Training it never saw
Training it never saw

Training it never saw

Played five-a-side or did a spin class? Mark the muscles that feel crushed and the plan steers around them for a day or two.

Ready doesn't mean max out

A muscle past 80% can take a hard session, not every set taken to failure. Leave a rep or two in the tank on most sets and you bounce back sooner, which is what lets you train each muscle more often.

Try it with a notebook

Write down the date you last trained each big muscle group hard. Before a session, pick the group with the oldest date that feels fine on a warm-up set, and train that. It's rough, but it's the same idea the app runs muscle by muscle.

How recovery-based training picks today's session

Recovery-based training means you train a muscle when it has recovered enough to work hard again, not because the calendar says it's that muscle's day. Your split still gives the week its shape, but readiness decides which session comes next.

A printed program says Monday is chest. Then Saturday turns into a long bench session with a friend who wanted a spotter, and on Monday you're looking at the same muscles again. A calendar plan leaves you two bad options here: press on tired muscles, or skip the day and fall behind the sheet. Recovery-based training removes the dilemma, because the plan was never tied to Monday in the first place. You do whichever session your recovered muscles allow, and chest comes back round when it's ready.

The weekly rhythm stops being fixed, and that's the point. If life gives you three free evenings one week and five the next, a calendar program breaks while a recovery-based one just shifts, because each session is chosen from what has come back since the last. Missed days hurt less too. Nothing is overdue the way a skipped Monday is overdue, and a muscle left alone for a while simply becomes the obvious next choice.

It isn't a licence to train hard every day. Recovery is local and whole-body at once: your legs can be clear while your sleep, your stress and your overall training load say you need an easier stretch, which is why planned deloads still matter in this approach. Soreness makes a poor gauge here as well, since it fades on its own schedule and often says more about how new an exercise was than how much it took out of you.

Workout With Me tracks your recovery muscle by muscle from the sets you log, free on iPhone and Android. The S.H.A.R.P engine then builds each session from that state and only schedules muscles that are at least 80% recovered. New accounts get a limited number of S.H.A.R.P plans to try it, and WWM Pro unlocks it in full from $7.99 a month.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, a split still sets the structure. Push, pull and legs, upper and lower, full body and one muscle a day all work this way, because recovery only decides which of the split's sessions comes next.

Yes, arguably more than for anyone. Newer lifters recover more slowly from the same relative effort, so a program borrowed from an experienced lifter tends to hit them again too soon. Training by readiness builds in the extra time without any guessing.

That still works. You keep your days and recovery decides what you do on each, so someone who lifts on Tuesdays and Thursdays might train upper body on one and legs on the other. The approach changes what's in a session, not when you're free.

They work at different scales. RPE adjusts the load inside a session based on how the sets feel today, while recovery-based training decides which muscles get a session at all. Workout With Me logs RPE with your sets, so the two sit side by side.

Your logged workouts, plus anything it couldn't see. Log your sets as you train, and use Mark crushed muscles on the body map after a match, a class or a session recorded somewhere else. No wearable is needed.

Recovery tracking is free: the body map, the Muscle Breakdown and logging, along with every social feature. S.H.A.R.P, which turns recovery into planned sessions, can be tried on a limited number of plans and is unlocked in full by WWM Pro from $7.99 a month.