October development update: clearer workouts, calmer recovery.

Less work between you and the session.

A workout app earns its place through small moments. Recognising the next movement. Changing a suggested weight. Finding the set you meant to edit. Looking back at a sleep entry without searching through a long page. Our recent development has focused on making those moments clearer across training and recovery.

This October update brings together progress since our first journal posts: reviewed exercise artwork, more useful starting suggestions, improvements to logging both sides of an exercise, and a quieter layout for Wellness and Profile. Each change has a practical purpose, and the platform status at the end explains where the work has reached.

Recognise the movement and review the starting point.

We have added 292 reviewed exercise illustrations for supported movements. They give supported exercises in the workout screen a clearer visual reference. An illustration helps identify the intended movement; it does not watch a session or verify technique. The workout header also keeps progress, time and save feedback close to the work you are logging.

Starting weight and repetition suggestions draw on comparable recent working sets and the intended session. You can edit them. Where effort information is missing, the suggestion may need a labelled assumption. The point is to give you a more understandable starting proposal, with room to change it based on the session in front of you.

That keeps the plan and the outcome distinct. The suggestion is the starting point; your log records what you did. Our earlier article on honest workout measurements explains why that distinction matters throughout the app.

Log both sides without guessing what a set means.

For supported new unilateral repetition sets, the workout now records both sides together. If the instruction is 10 repetitions on each side, you complete each side and log one set at the weight you used. The record accounts for both sides without doubling the displayed load. Existing workout history keeps its original meaning.

The set editor also opens directly under the row you select. That keeps the exercise and its surrounding sets nearby while you change a value. Together, these changes address a familiar interruption: stopping mid-session to work out how the app expects you to describe something you have just done.

Make recovery screens easier to return to.

Sleep keeps recent entries close to hand and folds older history away. Mind makes it easier to inspect a grounding or movement practice before starting, save one that is useful and return to it later. When a standard practice is used as a fallback, it is identified as such rather than presented as newly personalised output.

Patterns follows a simpler sequence: notice something in your entries, try one manageable change, then review the records. A pattern is an observation, not proof that one habit caused an outcome. That distinction matters when a handful of daily entries might reflect several things changing at once.

These screens sit alongside the existing recovery sharing controls. Saving a record and choosing what informs the AI coach remain separate considerations. Clear labels also connect to the broader question of how to judge an AI fitness tool: you should be able to tell what the app is showing you.

Find a setting and keep unfinished edits visible.

Profile now offers more direct routes to settings and a clear decision when you leave unfinished changes. It is a modest part of the update, but an important one. Changing your training context should not leave you wondering whether a value saved or whether navigating away lost the work.

The same idea runs through the workout and Wellness changes: keep the relevant details near the action, and make the result understandable. Those are the parts we want beta feedback to test in ordinary use.

Where this update is available.

The exercise artwork and starting suggestions reached the web and the Android 1.0.17 (19) closed-testing release earlier in October. The newer workout, Wellness and Profile changes were published on the web on 21 October. Android 1.0.18 (21), containing the corresponding app changes, was submitted to closed testing that evening.

Our recorded Play check on 21 October showed Google review in progress. That is a dated release record, not a fresh confirmation of Android availability on 26 October. Android sleep import also depends on the app's Health Connect integration; the web layout update does not add browser sleep import.

Explore the Hyperion product tour, see the roadmap and feature status, or review web access and Android beta joining. The new trial and paid membership remain planned and unavailable. For feedback about the experience, the feature request form gives you a direct place to describe the part that needs attention.