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Aspera

A gym log built around the set you are actually doing

Aspera tracks strength training: templates you start rather than read, a session screen that fills in last time's numbers before you ask, and a rest timer that still fires with the screen locked. The training data lives in a database on the phone; an account backs it up and is what lets a coach see a report when you choose to share one.

Status
In beta
Platforms
Version
1.17.0
  1. Aspera's home screen for a Thursday, greeting Giovanni above an illustration of a flame character in a gym, with a "Choose your workout" button, an August recap banner, a week calendar tagged Upper, Push and Lower on three days, and the day's session showing six exercises, eighteen working sets, an hour and twelve minutes and 15,170 kg.

    The week, and what today is for.

    The home screen answers one question: what am I doing today. The calendar carries the sessions already logged, tagged with the template that ran, and the day you are on opens straight into its own summary. The button changes with the state, offering the next workout or the one you left running.

  2. The workout templates screen, headed "Your workouts", with a button to create a new one and five preloaded coloured cards; Legs and Lower are visible, each showing six exercises and a Start button.

    Five templates, ready on the first launch.

    Push, Pull, Legs, Upper and Lower are there before you have set anything up, so the first session is a tap away rather than an evening of data entry. Each is a real template you can edit, rename or throw away, and your own sit beside them in the same list.

  3. A live Upper session, one minute in, showing Barbell Bench Press with a "Last session, Sep 2" panel listing 46.5 kg by 10, 80 kg by 8 at RIR 3, 80 kg by 7 at RIR 2 and 77.5 kg by 7 at RIR 1; set one is active with the weight already set to 46.5 kg and ten reps, sets two and three are queued at 80 kg, and a Finish workout button sits at the bottom.

    What you lifted last time, before you have to remember it.

    Every set of the last session is on screen while you do this one, and the fields arrive already filled with those numbers rather than empty. You are not recalling what you did in August, you are looking at it: add two and a half kilos or one more rep and the progression is deliberate instead of guessed. The set you are on stays open, the ones you have finished collapse out of the way.

  4. The exercise library with a search field, a New button and filters by muscle group; Barbell Bench Press, Barbell Curl, Barbell Row, Cable Crunch, Cable Fly, Calf Raise and Chest Press are listed, each tagged Compound or Accessory with its muscle group and equipment.

    The main lifts are there. The rest you add.

    The library arrives with the movements most programmes are built from, and it is yours to extend: add what you actually do, edit what is there, rename or remove the rest. Each one carries its muscle group, its equipment and, crucially, whether it is a compound or an accessory. That label is not decoration: it decides how the movement is read later, because a bench press and a cable fly do not get judged by the same number.

  5. The history screen, subtitled "Every set, always easy to find", listing three sessions: Lower on 3 September with six exercises, twenty sets and 15,170 kg, Push on 2 September with 6,571.5 kg, and Upper on 1 September with 8,215 kg.

    Every set, still there months later.

    A session is kept whole: how long it took, which exercises, how many sets, how much was moved. Opening one gets you back to the individual sets, which is what makes last month's numbers worth anything when you are standing at the same bench again.

  6. The progress screen on the weekly tab, showing external volume of 29,956.5 kg, 481 repetitions, 54 working sets, 3 workouts and 3 hours 22 minutes, each marked as a new best, with average volume per workout of 9,985.5 kg below.

    A week or a month, compared with the last.

    Volume, repetitions, working sets, workouts and time, each set against the equivalent period before it rather than against nothing. Underneath sit the per-exercise trends: estimated one-rep max and load for the compounds, reps at equal load and set volume for the accessories.

  7. The coach calendar screen, with Giovanni Cliente selected under a list of athletes, September 2026 shown as a month grid with coloured dots on the days that carry sessions, a button for the monthly performance report and one to refresh the calendar.

    A coach can follow along, if you invite one.

    An athlete hands over a coach code, and from then on the coach sees that calendar: which sessions happened, what was lifted in them, and the monthly performance report built from the same data. It is the athlete who connects and the athlete who disconnects, and disconnecting stops the reading there and then. What it cannot do is call back a report already exported: a PDF, once saved, belongs to whoever has it.

  8. The add workout screen a coach uses, with tabs for their own workouts and the athlete's, buttons to create a workout or an exercise, and a list to choose from: Legs, Lower, Pull, Push and Upper, each with six exercises.

    And put the work in your calendar.

    The coach picks a template, from their own library or the athlete's, and assigns it to a day. It lands in the athlete's calendar as planned work, ready to start with the loads already set, and stays separate from what was actually lifted: a plan never touches volume, records or progress.

Aspera is a training log for people who lift. The whole design assumes you are using it between sets, with one hand, in a noisy room: the screen opens on the set in front of you, the numbers from last time are already filled in, and the rest timer keeps running when you put the phone down.

The sessions, the exercise library and the templates live in a SQLite database on the phone, which is why the app is quick and works without a signal. An account is what backs that up and what makes the coach report possible, so unlike a purely local app there is a copy on a server and there are terms that govern it.

What it does

The set in front of you, not the spreadsheet
A session opens on the set you are about to do, with last time's load and reps already in place. Decimal kilos, RIR or RPE, set types and intensity techniques are all there when you want them and out of the way when you do not. The rest timer runs on a local notification, so it still tells you when the screen is locked and recalculates itself when you come back.
Plans you start, not plans you read
Push, Pull, Legs, Upper and Lower are there from the first launch, and your own templates sit beside them. The weekly planner sets the day, the template and the loads in advance, and a planned session starts with those numbers already filled in. Planned work is kept apart from what you actually lifted: targets never touch volume, records or progress.
Two kinds of exercise, judged differently
Compound and accessory work are not read the same way. Aspera estimates a one-rep max with Epley and tracks load for the compounds, and looks at reps at equal load, performance inside the range and set volume for the accessories. Records cover load, reps, volume and estimated 1RM.
A coach, on the athlete's terms
A coach code connects the two: from then on the coach can follow the athlete's calendar, see the sessions and the loads in them, and add training programmes to it. The same performance report serves both sides, a week or a month of adherence, progression and RIR or RPE with a set-by-set appendix, exported as a vector PDF. Connecting is the athlete's decision, and so is disconnecting, which stops further reading without needing the coach to agree — though a report already exported stays with whoever downloaded it.

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