Your whole season, written before you pay.
Every day, every lift, every load, the calories, the protein, and the reasoning behind all of it. Reading it costs nothing. Starting it is what costs money.
iPhone and Apple Watch. $14.99 a month, or $89.99 a year with the first 7 days free.
How it writes it
A dozen questions, then a season.
No templates to browse and no week to assemble yourself. You answer, it writes, you read the whole thing and decide.
Answer the questions
Your gym and its equipment, your injuries, and the days you can actually train. Eleven screens, one question on each.
Pick the shape
Five physiques, and you choose the one you are training toward. Three photos, front, side and back, if you want the body read. That step is last and you can skip it.
Read the season
The split, the progression, the weight to open with on every lift, the food, and what the first eight weeks are meant to change.
A day with it
Today shows one thing.
The session you are meant to do, or the rest you are meant to take.
One card and one action. The rest of the screen answers where you are: waist, weight, and what the bar has done over ninety days.
A perfect day costs two taps. The evening nudge carries its own buttons, so most days you never open the app at all.
Log a set in one tap.
Start it and the app runs the session set by set, with last time's weight already in the field and the rest timer on the screen you are already looking at.
The lock screen carries the session while the phone is in your pocket, and a workout that finishes with no signal uploads itself when the signal comes back.
Gym shut. Shoulder sore. Work ran late.
Tell the coach and it rewrites the day around what you have: a different workout, a swap, or a day moved.
The plan shifts, it does not break. Nothing in here keeps a streak to punish you with, and no screen tells you off for a missed Tuesday.
On your wrist
The watch carries the session.
Today's workout is on the watch before you leave the house. Dial the load, log the set, and the phone picks it up when the two are back together.
It holds what you did on the watch itself, so a locker, a dead phone battery or a gym with no signal costs you nothing.
Why the numbers are worth trusting
Every rule cites the paper behind it.
The PubMed id sits on the screen that uses the rule. You can open the study that put that rep range there and read it yourself.
It will not sell you a date either. The timeline is arithmetic on your own body: your weight, the body fat read, the gap to the shape you picked, and the rate the plan's own calories allow. It comes back as a range, because a single date is a promise nobody can keep.
"Protein needs for energy-restricted resistance-trained athletes are likely 2.3 to 3.1 g/kg of fat free mass."
Helms et al. International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, 2014. PMID 24092765, quoted in the app on the screen that sets your protein band.
What it costs
The plan is free to read. Starting it is what costs money.
Heracles Pro, billed through your Apple Account.
- The whole season on screen before you pay, every day of it.
- A coach that has read your program and every set you logged.
- Photograph a meal and the calories and the protein land on the day.
- A checkpoint every eight weeks that reads three new photos against the old ones.
Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews at the same price unless auto renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings.
Who it is for
Men who will train three to six days a week and want to stop guessing. The five goal shapes are male physiques and the nutrition is written around that.
Who it is not for
Anyone who wants a library of workouts to browse. Heracles writes one plan, yours, and then runs it with you.
Questions
Do I have to pay to see the plan?
No. The season is written and on your screen before any of it costs money. Starting it is the paid part.
What happens when I miss a day?
The plan shifts forward. Nothing breaks, nothing is lost, and no screen in here tells you off.
Do I need an Apple Watch?
No. The watch is a second face of the same session. The phone runs the whole thing on its own.
Do I have to send photos?
No. The photo step is last and it has a skip. Without photos the plan is written from your numbers and your answers.
Where does the training advice come from?
A method with the papers attached. Each rule carries its PubMed id on the screen that uses it, and the coach reads your logged sets before it changes anything.
How do I cancel?
In your Apple Account settings, the same as any subscription. You keep what you paid for until the period ends.
Read the whole season first.
It is written, day by day, before you pay for any of it.