When Jacked first shipped, it could do one thing well: hold a conversation with a coach while you logged a set. The bones were right. The reps were rough.
The bulk of the work since has been making the app feel like it just works — logging that fires once and only once, corrections that don’t fight you, sessions that come back exactly where you left them. Stability comes first because nothing else matters if your set doesn’t land where you typed it.
On top of that foundation, the coach got smarter and Workout Plans graduated to a first-class part of the app.
Logging that gets out of the way
The bulk of the work since 1.0 — and the part most worth calling out:
- Sets log once and only once. No more accidental doubles when you rattle off reps in quick succession.
- Corrections update in place. Fix a set (“actually that was 185”) and the chat card you already see updates, with a small edited indicator.
- Sessions survive an app reload. Chat history, set cards, and the active plan all come back intact.
If you bounced because logging felt brittle, the brittle parts are gone.
A real editor for sets
Tap a set in History and you get the editor it always should have had — the value you’re changing is huge, the unit is small, and the keypad doesn’t fight you for screen space.
One shell, five variants: strength with reps and weight, bodyweight with just reps, assisted moves (which show the assist as a leading minus — −30 lb), cardio with duration and distance, and session timing.
Preset chips cover the values you actually log — 5 · 8 · 10 · 12 · 15 for strength reps, 3 · 5 · 10 · 15 · 20 minutes for cardio, BW · 5 · 10 · 25 · 45 for weight (with a BW chip that flips to bodyweight without typing zero). The ± stepper nudges by the right amount per field: 1 for reps, 2.5 for weight, 0.1 for distance.
Workout Plans
Workout Plans is here. A dedicated tab, a real library of hundreds of exercises filterable by body part or category, and custom exercises that sync across devices.
The coach reads your plan from the first message of every session and coaches each lift to its category — a Lat Pulldown gets pulldown cues, not generic ones. Custom workout types? The coach recommends your next session in the order you set, and if you skip an exercise mid-session it flags what you left undone at the close instead of letting it slide.
Log after the fact
No signal at the gym? Trained without the app? Just tell the coach afterward. Type 4x8x225 and you get four sets of 8 at 225 — no follow-up questions. Dump an entire session in one message and it all gets filed.
Smarter progression
The coach reads your rep history to decide whether to bump, hold, or drop weight. A flat 6/6/6 or 12/12/12 both register as “weight’s too easy” — no setup, no fixed rep range.
Each session opens with a preview of what’s on deck. If you only get through two of four planned exercises, the coach flags what you skipped instead of letting it slide.
Your data, your control
Export your full workout history to CSV from Settings — exercises, sets, weights, units. Your data is yours.
What’s next
The coach keeps getting smarter. Next post: 1 Rep in Reserve — why your last set of bench should be a grind, not a copy of your first.
