Frequently Asked Questions

Effective Fitness puts the parts of training that usually live in five separate apps in one place: structured workout plans, a rep-by-rep tracker, a community feed, a fitness wiki, and challenges. It is early, and the pages will tell you which parts are not finished yet. Think of it as the platform you wish existed when you first started training.

Yes. An account costs nothing, and it stays that way. On a free account you get the wiki, the community feed, the public workout plans, and the tracker with no cap on how much you log. Premium adds the coach-made plans and the premium wiki articles.

No. There are plans for home gyms, bodyweight training and fully equipped commercial gyms. You cannot filter by equipment yet - the filters are difficulty and goal - so the equipment a plan needs is in its description.

Go to Workouts > Quick Workout to build a session from scratch, or browse Plans to follow a structured programme. Once you have added your exercises, press "Start Workout" and the live tracker opens on your first set.

A Quick Workout is a one-off session you build yourself, which suits a drop-in day or trying a new movement. A Plan is a structured, multi-week programme with the progression already written in. Follow one and the app keeps track of which day you are on, so you open it and it tells you what is next.

Partly. Workouts > Import takes a CSV or pasted spreadsheet data and turns it into a workout plan. Importing your training history from another app is not built yet, so past sessions have to be logged by hand from the History page. If you have a lot of them, ask in the community and we will look at it.

After you complete a workout the app compares every set logged to your previous best for that exercise (by weight). If you beat your record a PR is flagged and you get a notification. One-rep-max estimates are not worked out automatically: put a set into the one rep max calculator at /tools/one-rep-max and it will show you Epley and Brzycki side by side.

Yes. Leave the weight field at 0 and just track reps. For assisted or banded exercises you can enter a negative weight to indicate assistance.

You can post progress updates, form check videos, questions, PRs, routines, nutrition logs, or anything training-related. Posts support text, images, and video. Flairs help tag your content so others can find it.

Gains Points are the community's reputation currency. You earn them by posting PRs, completing challenges, helping others, and maintaining your streak. They feed into the monthly leaderboard. They are not redeemable for cash - they are purely for bragging rights.

Admins and staff can pin posts to the top of the feed. There are no per-coach channels, so a coach pins nothing of their own.

There is a bot rather than an official server. Add it to any server you are already in, connect your account with /connect, and you can log PRs and read the leaderboard from chat. The /discord page lists what it answers.

Premium gives you every coach-created plan, including the premium-only programmes, the premium wiki articles, and a badge on your profile. It is a monthly or annual subscription. It is not on sale yet, and the pricing page says so.

Gains are earned by training, posting, hitting a PR and finishing challenges, and the Perks Store lists what they will buy. Nothing spends them yet and the store says so. Credits cannot be bought: there is no way to buy them and no coaching calls to spend them on.

Yes, at any time. You keep Premium access until the end of your current billing period. No cancellation fees.

No. Nothing expires them, and nothing spends them yet either, so what you earn now is what you will have when redeeming opens.

Browse the Coaches directory and open a profile to see what someone specialises in and which plans they have published. Direct messaging and paid coaching are not switched on yet, so for now you work with a coach by following one of those plans.

A coach applies and an admin reads the application before approving it. The tick means that review happened, not that a certificate was checked - we do not collect or verify certificates. A coach without a tick is simply one whose application has not been approved; nothing else marks them.

Head to Coaches > Become a Coach and fill out the onboarding form. Once approved you can publish plans, set your pricing, and start building your client roster. Selling paid plans is not switched on yet. When it opens, the platform commission is 30%, or 20% on Coach Pro, which is the rate the pricing page carries.

Yes, if an admin turns it on for you. Coaches and above can already write; for everybody else it is a permission an admin sets against your account, so ask in the community. There is no application form and no revenue share - people write here because they want the guide to exist.

Sessions you log are public by default: they can appear on your profile, in the community feed and on the leaderboard. To keep your training to yourself, turn off "Show workout history" in Settings > Privacy, which hides your sessions, your streak and your totals everywhere including the Discord bot. Turning off "Public profile" in the same place hides your profile page from everyone but you.

Yes, yourself, right now. Settings, then Account and sign-in, then Delete account. You type your username to confirm. It removes your profile and everything attached to it: workouts, sets, stats, badges, posts and comments, and it deletes your sign-in too, so you cannot sign back in afterwards. Any active subscription is cancelled first. It is immediate and cannot be undone. See /privacy for exactly what is covered.

Workout data is stored securely and is never sold to third parties. We do not share individual health data with advertisers. Aggregate, anonymised data may be used to improve the platform (e.g. identifying popular exercise patterns).