Run your first workout

You picked a program, you opened the app, and today is a training day. This is what happens from Start to Finish.

Tap Start

Open the program day from My Rack. The screen lists every exercise the engine generated for today, with target weights and rep ranges already filled in. Hit Start. The active workout screen takes over.

You will see one exercise at a time, with the warmup and working sets stacked. The target chip on each set is the number Rackd wants you to hit. The pre-fill in the weight and reps fields matches the chip, so you can confirm and move on if the bar matched the plan.

Log warmups

Warmups are listed first. Tap the row, adjust the weight and reps if you ramped differently, and check it off. Warmups do not count toward your training history, so the goal is speed, not precision. Move through them as fast as the bar lets you.

Hit working sets

Working sets are where the math matters. Load the bar to the target, do the reps, and tap the set complete. Two things happen.

One, the rest timer auto-fires. The duration is set per exercise in your program, and the timer runs in the background while you rack the bar and breathe. You can dismiss it early or let it run.

Two, the next set unlocks. Same target, same pre-fill, ready when you are.

If the weight felt different from what the chip said, edit the weight or reps inline before you tap complete. The logged number is the truth, not the target.

Rate the set

After the last working set on an exercise, an RPE prompt shows up. Tap a number from 6 to 10, or skip it. RPE is optional, but the engine reads it back next session to decide whether to bump the weight, hold it, or back off. A few honest taps now means a smarter next workout.

Finish the session

Once every exercise is checked off, the Finish button takes over. Hit it. Rackd writes the session to your history, updates your training maxes if you hit a PR, and surfaces the Coach Note for next time.

The Coach Note

The Coach Note is one short line that tells you what changes for the same workout next week. New target weight, a deload cue, a switched rep scheme. Read it once, close the app, and show up next session.

That is the whole loop. Show up, log it, move on.