Features
The features in more detail. Everything on this page works today; anything still to come is on the roadmap.
The audio layer
Two voices share your ears, with different jobs. The Announcer is the app’s voice and keeps you on track: it tells you which plates to load, the rep target you’re chasing, and what’s next. The Coach speaks your notes, such as cues, instructions and motivation, in your own recorded voice or your coach’s.
Before the work starts, a countdown of one to ten beeps, your choice, gives you time to take the deep breath the cue just asked for.
You control all of it without touching your phone: from your headphones, Apple Watch, Siri, the Lock Screen player or a Live Activity. Your phone stays in your pocket.
Practice first: the Playground
Where the clips come from
The clip that loops through a set can come from your own edits of songs in your library, from Trending clips shared by other lifters (Gym Jockey shares song references, never audio files), from the built-in clips if you don’t have Apple Music, or from a cadence you record in your own voice.
Your playlist belongs to the whole session, so the music between sets is your own, as it is.
Notes that wait for their moment
Written notes get skipped because you stop reading them. Gym Jockey’s notes are built around that: record as many as you like, and the app caps how many play at any one moment, so you hear the one that matters.
Notes can also be conditional: a note that only plays on your last set, or only when you move up in weight, which is when a reminder to brace matters most.
Nothing is pre-written. The notes system is empty until you or your coach put something in it. It’s entirely optional: if you add notes, they do a lot; if you don’t, you never hear them. The configurable notes engine is a Pro feature.
Tracking that guides
Exercises can be rep-based or time-based. Supersets are full exercises in their own right: the catalog ships with ready-made combinations, and you can build your own as custom exercises (a Pro feature).
There are three kinds of rest timer: the same rest for every set, a custom rest for each set, and one based on your heart rate, which ends recovery when your heart rate is back down rather than when a clock runs out.
Plate math, in your ear
Gym Jockey knows what’s already on the equipment before you add anything: the weight of your bar, or of a machine’s sled. So when your target changes, it tells you what to do in the terms that suit the equipment, instead of reading out a total for you to work out under the bar:
- A barbell: “Add 5 kg per side.”
- A machine loaded in the middle: “Add 10 kg.” On a pin-loaded stack, that just means moving the pin.
- Bands: “Swap to the red band.”
Set it up once on the exercise, and from then on you hear what needs doing, with no arithmetic. Exercises & Routines explains how equipment is set up.
Reporting
The drill-down goes to the set level: the average and each set as separate trendlines. That shows what an average hides, such as your early sets leveling off while the later ones keep climbing under double progression, which is the program working as designed.
A per-muscle heat map shows where your training volume lands. Charts of recovery time and heart-rate range complete the picture.
Training context
Numbers are hard to read without context. The session check-in records how you arrived at the gym: energy, sleep, pain, alcohol, medication and body weight, whichever of these you choose.
Periods span sessions and carry over until you turn them off: Deload, Cut, Menstrual Cycle, Minor Injury, Sick and Travel. Events mark a single session: Major Injury, Program Change and Technique Reset. Together they turn a hunch that your sleep is hurting your numbers into a before and after you can look at.
Apple Watch
Your data
Everything lives on your device and in your own iCloud, including backup and restore, with no servers of ours anywhere. Workouts are written to Apple Health. You can export at any time, in formats ready for whatever you want next, including handing your numbers to the AI of your choice and drawing your own conclusions.
Coming from another app? Bring your own data.
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