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How do I start a workout?

Find your training in the client app, open a workout preview, and start or continue a session.

Verified Sep 12, 2026Client app

Your coach builds and assigns your training. You start it from the client app, and the same workout preview screen is the way in wherever you tap a workout from.

At a glance
Where
Tap any workout → the workout preview
Ends with
A session open in the workout player
Applies to
One workout in progress at a time

Find your training in the app

Where
WhereWhat you'll find
Calendar tabYour week day by day, with workouts alongside habits, check-ins, and other tasks
HomeA card for today's session, your consecutive workout streak, and workouts completed in the last 7 days
Vault tabWorkout collections your coach has shared — start any of them any time
Progress tabWorkout history, exercise history, personal bests, the Training Programs tile, and the Freestyle Workout builder

The Calendar tab opens on today, and you can flip between weeks. How many weeks back and ahead you can see follows settings your coach controls.

Start or continue a workout

  1. Tap a workout anywhere — your schedule, Home, a program, or the Vault — to open its preview. You'll see its name, duration, intensity, focus, exercise count, your coach's card, the full exercise list, and a status badge.
  2. Tap Start workout, or Continue workout to pick up a session you already began.
  3. Work through the session in the workout player.
UpcomingIn progressCompleted

The badge can also mark today's workout, show the date of an upcoming one, or read Missed. Tapping a workout you've already completed opens its results instead of the preview. Pull down on the preview to refresh.

Move a scheduled workout to another day

From the preview's calendar button, pick any day from today onward. Past days can't be chosen.

This works only while the workout hasn't been started, and only if your coach has left rescheduling on for your account. A program workout must stay inside its own phase's dates.

Start a workout from a training program

Progress → Training Programs lists your current and past programs. Scheduled programs show phase timelines, dates, and progress; programs your coach shares as an always-available library appear in a separate On-demand section, and a "to start" pill flags scheduled programs still waiting on a start date.

From a program's detail screen you can:

  • Choose a start date if your coach left it up to you — pick a day, or tap Start today. A confirmation shows when phase 1 begins and when the program ends before anything is scheduled.
  • Change the start date or push the start back a week, as long as nothing in the program has been started or completed and it isn't finished. After that, only your coach can re-date it.
  • Start any workout early, whatever day it's scheduled for — the session logs to today.
  • Add a copy of a workout to your calendar on days you pick from the next 14. This is only offered while the program is still waiting on a start date, or for on-demand programs. Copies are labelled "From {Program}", never count toward the program's progress, and can be removed while unstarted.
  • Message your coach about this program.

Quick answers

Why can't I start my workout?

Three possibilities: another workout is already in progress, so finish or cancel it first; your coach is logging it for you ("This workout is currently being logged by your coach."), so wait until they're done; or your account is archived — you keep view access to your history and past messages, so contact your coach to reactivate.

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