How to use Calcite

Calcite works with the workout program you already follow, a template you choose, or a plan built around your level, equipment, schedule, and goals. As you train, it follows how your program is working and helps you understand what to keep and where an adjustment might be useful.

Your logged workouts give Calcite the evidence to work from.

Finding your way around

The app has four main tabs:

• Workout shows the day's exercises, sets, and coach's note. This is also where you log a session or change today's workout.
• Progress shows your goals, training volume, and exercise history.
• Chat is where you can ask Calcite about your training or reply to a question from your coach.
• Profile holds your programs, training schedule, equipment, and preferences.

Start with your program

You can bring your own program, choose a template, or have Calcite create one for you. If you already have a routine you like, you can keep it and let Calcite review your progress within it. You can also edit your exercises and progression targets as you go.

In the app: Open Profile → Training → Programs. Choose Find a program to browse available programs or Start from scratch to enter your own. Tap a saved program to see its days and exercises. If you'd like to bring in past workout logs, go to Profile → Training → Import history → Import a file.

Calcite follows the whole plan

A plateau often leaves you with several possible explanations. Are the sets demanding enough? Is a muscle getting enough work? Has an exercise run out of room to progress? Is fatigue affecting the rest of the week?

Calcite examines your logged performance, effort, notes, and training history together. It looks at individual exercises and how the week supports your goal.

For example, if chest progress has stalled, Calcite can examine whether your pressing exercises are progressing, how challenging their sets are, and how much chest work the week contains. Those findings help inform what to try next—or whether more time with the current approach would be useful.

In the app: Open Progress and tap the Strength section to see individual exercises and their history. You can also open an exercise's Exercise progress view from its menu on the Workout tab.

Your training has a direction

Each exercise can have a progression that supports your goal. Calcite works from your current level toward measurable checkpoints.

An exercise that's working generally stays in place. Its targets progress as your performance improves. When repeated sessions suggest an approach is no longer working as well, Calcite can reconsider the load, rep range, sets, or variation.

Workout and exercise notes explain the direction: what the session is developing, why an exercise is there, and what comes next. You can review and edit progression settings as needed.

In the app: Go to Profile → Training → Programs, select a program, and tap an exercise. Its Progression section shows the current progression and an option to edit it.

Calcite follows its own decisions

After a completed workout, Calcite reviews what happened against previous sessions and the targets it set.

It can recognize several kinds of progress: more reps, more weight, or the same work becoming easier. It can also distinguish one difficult session from a repeated stall.

When an adjustment is made, subsequent sessions provide evidence of the result. Did the new load land at the intended effort? Did the rep range help the lift move again? Did performance improve after the work was rearranged?

That continuity keeps each workout connected to the training before it. Recommendations can build on what Calcite has already observed, rather than treating every workout as a fresh start.

In the app: On the Workout tab, tap Finish at the end of a session and confirm. Finishing records the session and starts Calcite's workout review. The coach's notes and follow-up messages can be opened when they become available.

Coaching continues between workouts

Calcite can reach out when it has something worth discussing: a pattern it has noticed, a possible adjustment, or a question whose answer would affect your training.

You can also bring it a problem directly:

• “My bench hasn't moved, but my other presses are improving.”
• “The last two exercises always feel harder than expected.”
• “I have forty minutes today.”
• “This variation bothers my shoulder.”

Your reply gives Calcite context to use alongside the logs. You can discuss options and make changes to your plan in chat. Future reviews can build on those decisions.

In the app: Tap Chat to start a conversation. You can also tap a coach's note on the Workout tab to open a conversation about that note.

Use your first sessions to establish your working numbers

Calcite uses your setup answers and benchmarks to estimate starting loads. Your first working sets help check those estimates against your performance.

Log your weights and reps for each working set. You can also record effort and add a short note about anything that affected the session. For dumbbell exercises, check how the app is set to record weight per hand.

In the app: On Workout, tap Start, then tap an exercise to open its sets. Enter the weight and reps and use Log set as you go. The exercise's tools include Note and Effort; the weight-entry controls let you check how dumbbell weights are recorded. You can also open an exercise without starting the session timer to enter or edit sets manually.

Those details help Calcite compare sessions and refine future targets.

Effort tells Calcite how to progress the work

Eight reps with four left and eight reps with nothing left call for different next steps.

RPE estimates how many more clean reps with the same form you could have performed:

Many working sets target RPE 8–9. New movements, returning after a break, and lighter weeks may use lower targets. Follow the effort shown for your session, then record how the set actually felt.

Prefer counting reps left? Choose RIR through the exercise's Effort settings.

In the app: Open an exercise on Workout and tap Effort. You can choose when Calcite asks for an effort rating and whether to use RPE or RIR. The same settings are available under Profile → Units and preferences → Preferences.

Effort helps Calcite recognize when there's room to progress, when a target may need changing, and when staying at the current level makes sense. It's one piece of evidence alongside your weights, reps, and workout history.

What happens next

Your session is built around the time you gave during setup. To use a different training day, adjust the session length, or build a one-off workout, tap Swap on the Workout tab. You can also change your usual duration under Profile → Location → Training duration.

Targets can begin adapting after your first logged workout. Repeated sessions give Calcite a clearer picture of what is improving and where the next adjustment belongs.

You can expect guidance connected to your training: what is moving, what may need attention, what could change next, and how that supports your goal.

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