Method documentation
Building programs, logging training, and reading the history afterwards.
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What is Method
Method is a workout planner and tracker. Write programs on web or iPhone. Log on iPhone.
Build your first program
Go from an empty builder to a scheduled training week without getting lost in set-level detail too early.
Log your first workout
Start a scheduled session on iOS, record what you did, and save a completed record.
Basic vs Advanced tracking
Tracking mode controls how much prescription detail Method asks you to manage. Your training is recorded either way.
Get started
Set up Method and get through your first program and first logged workout.
What is Method
Method is a workout planner and tracker. Write programs on web or iPhone. Log on iPhone.
Choose the right Method workspace
Web has more room for building. iPhone is for the gym, and you can write programs there too.
Set up your training profile
Goals, equipment, schedule, and units are the settings everything else reads from. Get them right once.
Build your first program
Go from an empty builder to a scheduled training week without getting lost in set-level detail too early.
Log your first workout
Start a scheduled session on iOS, record what you did, and save a completed record.
Core concepts
The handful of ideas that make everything else in Method predictable.
Programs, sessions, and exercises
The three objects everything else in Method is built from, and how to choose between them.
Basic vs Advanced tracking
Tracking mode controls how much prescription detail Method asks you to manage. Your training is recorded either way.
Planned vs completed training
Programs, Calendar, drafts, and History are four separate things. Keeping them separate is what stops edits rewriting your past.
Building programs
Author programs, saved sessions, cardio days, and exercises on the web builder.
Build programs on web
Use the larger web builder for weeks, training days, metadata, exercises, and set targets.
Advanced prescriptions and load adjustments
Intensity, rest, tempo, supersets, notes, and percent loading. The fields Advanced tracking unlocks, and when each earns its keep.
Copy, reorder, and reuse structure
Duplicate clean weeks, reorder days, apply day order across weeks, and import saved sessions when a plan repeats.
Saved sessions
Reusable single workouts you can import into programs or run standalone.
Exercise library
Keep exercise records accurate so movements stay easy to find and analytics can attribute your sets correctly.
Build cardio sessions on web
Cardio is a first-class session type. Add activity type, targets, distance, duration, and notes alongside strength work.
Training
Run scheduled sessions, log strength work, and capture cardio from the iOS app.
Calendar, Library, and starting sessions
Calendar covers what comes next, Library covers finding saved work, and the session flow covers anything you are about to complete.
Log strength workouts
Follow the planned targets, record what happened, use timers and notes, then review before saving.
Track cardio and review activities
Capture cardio, correct distance when needed, review the summary, and save notes and effort with the activity.
Settings that affect training
Tracking mode, units, smart loads, schedule, and training setup, visible from the device you train with.
History and analytics
Completed training, per-exercise history, and the numbers Method shows from what you logged.
History, analytics, and exports
History holds completed work, Analytics turns it into trends, and exports get your records out of Method.
Exercise history and performance
Drill into one movement to see recent work, past sets, and the context behind a change.
Analytics methodology
How Method calculates every number on the Analytics pages, including estimated 1RM, trends, records, activity, muscle coverage, cardio, and program counts.
Coaching
The Coach Workspace: clients, published programs, check-ins, form checks, and what a coached athlete sees.
Method for coaches
A Coach Workspace on the web holds your clients, your program library, check-ins, form checks, and messages. Clients train from the iPhone app.
Invite and manage clients
Invite a client by link or email, choose what you are asking to see, and work from their client record. Either side can end the relationship.
Publish programs to clients
Build a program in your library, publish it to one client, choose who sets the start date, and review every change before an update reaches their calendar.
Check-ins, form checks, and messages
Build check-in templates from your own questions, set each client's rhythm, review form check videos on the frame, and keep conversations in the inbox.
Training with a coach
Accept a coach's invitation, follow the program they publish to your calendar, answer check-ins, send form checks, and read their feedback in the iPhone app.
Account and billing
Profile, workout preferences, sign-in security, subscription, and account deletion.
Profile and training setup
Keep the training profile details that shape defaults and recommendations current as your situation changes.
Workout preferences and units
Tracking mode, load units, distance units, and smart load suggestions, all from one place.
Security and sign-in
Review active device sessions, sign out other devices, and manage the sign-in methods connected to your account.
Subscription and billing
Where you manage a subscription depends on where it was bought. Stripe handles web purchases, the App Store handles iOS purchases.
Delete your account
How deletion works, what can block it, and why an App Store subscription needs cancelling separately.
Troubleshooting
Answers to the things that most often look wrong but are not.