RepGarden
The RepGarden carrot, grinning and flexing both arms

RepGarden

An app for personal trainers and the clients they coach: you plan the week on the web, and they log every set on their phone.

Every set your client logs grows a vegetable on their own farm, and the week's harvest cures Mrs Patata.

How a week works

  1. Mrs Patata in bed with the flu, a thermometer in her mouth Monday

    Mrs Patata falls ill, and the seeds arrive

    Mrs Patata lives in the cottage by your client's plot, and every Monday she comes down with the flu. The same morning a box of seeds lands on the farm: one vegetable for every muscle group in each session you planned that week. Your programme is the planting plan.

  2. A vegetable patch with one seedling coming up Training days

    Each set your client logs grows the day's vegetables

    They open the app to today's workout, watch the demonstration, and log the weight and reps of every set. The session's seeds go in at the start and grow set by set, so a finished session is a bed of full-grown vegetables. A personal best turns one gold. A missed session leaves bare earth, and nothing dies.

  3. A green farm truck loaded with carrots Sunday

    Mr Patata collects the harvest

    On Sunday night Mr Patata drives his truck to the farm and loads the week's crop. He makes the stew that cures his wife, sells the rest at the market, and the farm keeps the profits.

  4. Mrs Patata, well again, eating a bowl of stew Every week

    She is better by Sunday night if the plan was kept

    A full week cures her. A thin one leaves her poorly until Monday, when she falls ill again and the farm starts over, so a bad week costs a week and no more.

The month builds up as a grid, one square a day in the colour of what grew: a star for a personal best, stripes for a rest day, grey for a session missed. Your client can share it as a picture from the app.

What you see as the trainer

  • Each client's week: who trained, who missed a workout, and what they logged.
  • Filmed sets. A client films a working set against the exercise and sends it with a note. You watch it and reply with one of four marks, a tick, a cross, neutral or adjust it, and a short note pinned to the moment in the clip you mean. The reply reaches them as a notification, and clips waiting for you queue in an inbox, oldest first.
  • Progress for each client: sessions done against sessions planned, loads over time, and personal bests.

Messages stay on WhatsApp, or wherever you and your clients already talk.

What your clients get

  • A calendar that opens on today's workout, with demonstrations of the exercises and a place to log every set.
  • A way to film a set for you, and a notification when you reply.
  • Their own progress: loads over time and personal bests.
  • A reminder before a scheduled workout, a nudge after a missed one, and a well done when one is finished.
  • The farm: the vegetables that grow as they train, the Sunday harvest, and the month to share.

They join through your invitation, and the app is free.

Questions

Do I need a trainer to use it?

Yes. The app is for people who train with a personal trainer, and you get in through your trainer's invitation; it has no sign-up of its own.

Is it on iPhone and Android?

Yes. The app your clients use is for iPhone and Android. As the trainer, you use RepGarden in a web browser.

What does it cost?

Trainers pay once for their account, with no subscription. The app your clients use is free, with nothing to buy inside it.