Your workout,
in your ears.

Why it exists

Gym Jockey was born out of six frustrations. You may recognize them.

• 01

  You're ready to lift.
  But not to this song.

  You’re under the bar, waiting for the needle drop — and your playlist is wherever it happens to be. You need pure adrenaline now. But between sets you need to dial it back. That’s two jobs, and no playlist does both.

  Gym Jockey splits the two: your playlist between sets, and the part of the right song you chose for the exercise itself.

  See how music works ↓
• 02

  Blanking under the bar

  What am I chasing? What I did last time? The record on this set? You stared at your phone the whole rest, and you still don’t know.

  The app says it in your ears as you set up — the reps, the plates, last time, the record to beat. You listen, and you lift.

  See a set ↓
• 03

  You wrote it down.
  You still forgot.

  You wrote them all down — the grip, the brace, the position of your feet. Half a dozen cues you mean to read, and mostly don’t. And when you do, your eyes slide over the lot and none of it sticks.

  Gym Jockey speaks the right cue at the right moment — before the set, not buried in your notes. You decide when it appears.

  See how notes work ↓
• 04

  The timer goes off.
  You were somewhere else.

  You’re texting a friend when the timer ends. So you finish writing, wander back to the bar, and wonder why your workouts take so long. You’re in the middle of something else when you should already be in position.

  While you recover, the app eases you toward the next set with chimes that tighten as the clock runs down, so by the end you’re in position, not looking down at a notification. You can also give each set its own rest, or let your heart rate decide.

  See the rest ↓
• 05

  You'll change it later.
  If you remember.

  Mid-workout, the idea arrives: change the rep range, try the wider grip. You’ll fix the routine afterward — but afterward arrives late, if it arrives at all. And how often do you start a session having clean forgotten what you’d resolved last time: deload, work on form, ease off?

  Hold the mic, on phone or Watch, and say it: the memo waits before and after every session until you act on it. And at the end of a session, tell your future self the goal for the next one — it’s waiting when you start it.

  See memos ↓
• 06

  You track everything.
  Where are the insights?

  Sleep, energy, the cut, the cold — you can track all of it. Then it sits in a list, nowhere near the lifts it was meant to explain. Is the wine wrecking your sleep, and your sleep wrecking your squat? That dip in March — was it the program, or your cold?

  Here what you track is laid against your sets, month by month, so when the numbers dip you can see what was behind it — and whether it was worth worrying about.

  See what your numbers say ↓