What's New in the Garage Gym Athlete App

Updated 17 July 2026

Two weeks ago we told you demo videos and Athlete Briefs were "on the roadmap." They're here, along with a lot more. Here is everything that has shipped since the last update. Most of it arrives automatically; a couple of items need the newest TestFlight build.

Share Your Workout

Finish a session and tap Share workout. You get a stat card with your time, volume, and sets, ready to post to the Crew with your own note on top. On the newest TestFlight build you can also fire it straight to Instagram Stories. Show people what training in a garage actually looks like.

The Daily Over Decades Challenge

A new challenge lives on your Me page. Commit to it, watch your progress ring fill as you train, and share your challenge card to the Crew when you finish. Fall off? Restart with a clean slate any time.

Session Pages, Rebuilt

Every session page got a full redesign: a photo up top, cleaner workout cards, and sharper typography throughout.

• Athlete Briefs. New sessions now open with a short brief from the coach: what the day is about, what to push, what to watch. Many include a brief video, starting with this deload week and the new wave.
• Exercise demo videos. Over 100 movements now have a silent demo video with three form cues right in the app. Tap the movement, watch the standard, go. More are being filmed every week.

Hard to Kill: Pick Your Version

Starting with the new wave (week 5), Hard to Kill athletes get a toggle right on the session: Main, Minimal Kit, or Minimal Time. Same training intent, three ways to hit it depending on your gear and your day. The app remembers your last choice, and any version you complete counts as the day done.

New Weeks Drop Saturday

New training weeks now unlock Saturday at 3pm Central instead of Sunday. Our international athletes kept waking up ahead of the drop. Problem solved.

Deload Week, Built In

Deload weeks are now programmed into the calendar like any other week, with their own sessions and briefs. You just trained through the first one. Back off on purpose so you can push for the next 12 weeks.

Timer Upgrades, Round Two

• Box Breathing mode. A guided box-breathing timer with a gentle breath cue. Use it post-workout or any time your day needs it.
• 3-2-1 lead-in. The timer now ticks you in before every interval starts and ends, so you are on the bar when the window opens, not looking at your phone.

Recovery Days Count Now

Active recovery with the clock running now counts toward your lifetime sessions and minutes, shows up on the leaderboard, and puts you on the live Training Now roster like any other session. There is also a new volume field for logging any extra work you did. One change for honesty: recovery time now comes from the clock only, no typing in minutes.

Crew Upgrades, Round Two

• GIFs in comments. The comment box has a GIF button. Use it responsibly. Or don't.
• Cheers land in your bell. Get cheered mid-workout and it now shows in your notifications, so you never miss it.
• Tap any photo to go fullscreen with pinch-to-zoom, and photo uploads got a bigger size limit. Also fixed the bug where some photos showed as black boxes on desktop.
• Lifetime rings on profiles. Tap any athlete and see their all-time sessions, minutes, and Elements.

Train Page Polish

• Session cards now carry photos, focus tags, and an estimated time, set by the coaches for each day.
• Restart a program any time from a link at the bottom of the Train page. Finish every session and it flips to "Program complete, restart from Session 1."

New: Account & Settings

The bottom of your Me page collapsed into one Account & Settings card: membership, pounds/kilograms, your Training Now visibility, and a new coach note review toggle if you would rather keep your session notes out of coach review. The Manage membership button now works on iPhone too.

Smaller Fixes You Asked For

• Time entry auto-formats. Type 930 and it becomes 9:30, on a big number pad. No more hunting for the colon with shaky post-workout hands.
• Profile photo uploads are fixed and avatars load noticeably faster everywhere.
• The Train page date strip now always matches the real training week.
• Leaderboards load faster.
• A fresh app icon on the newest TestFlight build. Look for the script logo.

More coming: push notifications, programmed warm-ups across all tracks, more demo and brief videos every week, and the full App Store launch. Keep the feedback coming. Almost everything above started as a note from one of you.

5 July 2026

What's New in the Garage Gym Athlete App

You asked, we built. Here is everything that has shipped over the last couple of weeks, including a big batch straight from your Iteration 1 feedback. Update your app to grab it all.

New: Faster Logging

• Apply to all sets. Enter your weight and reps once, tap "Set 1 → all", and every set fills in. Perfect for EMOMs and high-set days.
• One-tap complete. "All done" marks every set of a movement finished. Circuits and EMOMs get an "All" button that checks off every round at once.
• Log in kilograms. New Units setting on your Me page. Flip it to kg and every weight in the app (sets, maxes, volume, history) shows and saves in kilograms. Pounds stay the default.

New: Skip a Session

Life happens. If you miss a day, you no longer get pulled back to it forever. Open any session you are not going to do and tap "Skip this session" at the bottom. Up Next moves on to your real next workout, and the skipped day shows a "Do it anyway" button in case you change your mind. Skipped sessions never count toward your stats or the leaderboards, so everything stays honest.

Timer Upgrades

• Full timer, five modes. Countdown, Stopwatch, Intervals, Tabata, and EMOM, all from the timer button in the top right. It keeps running wherever you go in the app.
• Beeps with your ringer off. Gym phones live on silent. The timer chimes now play anyway.
• Halfway alert. Countdowns of a minute or more give you a single cue at the halfway point.
• Bigger button. The timer is easier to hit mid-workout, even with shaky hands.
• Screen stays awake. Fixed a bug where your screen could go dark mid-workout after using the timer. This was also knocking people off the live "Training Now" roster, so that is fixed too.

Calendar Is Now "Log"

Same tab, clearer name. The Log is the record of everything you have done, day by day. The Train tab is where your next workout lives. Skipped days show in gray, finished days in green.

Your Workout History Is Protected

Once you finish a workout, it becomes a record. If you go back and change anything on a finished workout, you will now see a warning at the top of the screen reminding you to tap Update to save the change. No more edits silently disappearing.

New Me Page

Your Me page got a full redesign: a bigger profile with your photo, track, and a new bio you can write, plus a Lifetime block showing your all-time sessions, minutes, Elements, volume, and distance. The 8-week training charts now show the numbers above each bar.

New Train Page

Your training week is now a swipeable deck of session cards with a Mon through Sun day strip up top. Status at a glance: green check for done, yellow for up next, and now gray for skipped.

Rest Days and Meet Yourself Saturday, Upgraded

• Rest days are now Rest / Active Recovery: start a clock, log your Zone 2 run or extra work, journal it, and share it to the Crew.
• Meet Yourself Saturday works like a real session now: begin, pause, finish, share your result.
• Journal everywhere. Every training day (sessions, rest days, benchmarks) has a journal box, and it all syncs to your Log.

Crew Upgrades

• Direct messages. Tap "Send message" on any athlete's profile, or the inbox icon in the Crew header.
• Photos on posts. Share the garage gym, the whiteboard, the sweat angels.
• Like comments and edit your own posts and comments.

Smaller Fixes You Asked For

• Weights that are a percentage of your 1RM auto-fill once your maxes are entered. If they can't fill in, the app now tells you exactly where to add your maxes (and you can dismiss that hint once you have seen it).
• Changing your profile photo now tells you if the app needs photo permission, with a shortcut to Settings.
• If a max lift fails to save (spotty gym wifi), you get an alert instead of silence.
• Fixed a bug where the workout screen could go blank after scrolling mid-session.

More coming: programmed warm-ups across all tracks, exercise demo videos, and Athlete Briefs are all on the roadmap. Keep the feedback coming. It is working.