Workout Chat for runners
The gym half of a runner's training.
Your watch already handles the running. This is where the two strength sessions a week go — properly logged, with your runs recorded alongside so the two aren't strangers.
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Where this sits
This is not a running app
No GPS, no heart rate, no routes, no cadence, no segments, and nothing that syncs from your watch. Strava and Garmin do that job well and this makes no attempt to replace them.
What running apps are consistently poor at is the other half. Four sets of squats and some single-leg work end up as a free-text note titled "gym", which is functionally the same as not recording them. A year of that and you have detailed mileage data and no idea whether your strength work went anywhere.
What you get
The strength work, actually tracked
Two sessions a week is little enough that progress is slow and easy to lose track of — which is exactly when a record earns its keep. Describe the session in a sentence and it's logged, charted, and comparable to where you were three months ago.
- A progression line per movement, from a handful of sessions
- Records that update themselves, including on single-leg work
- Volume and frequency, so you can see when the gym quietly stopped
- Injury tracking, with check-ins as something settles down
- Bodyweight logged alongside, if that's part of the picture
Why log runs here too
Context, not a second mileage log
"Ran 5k in 24 minutes" records distance and time, and the movement charts by distance so a rising line means further rather than slower. You're not doing this to replace your watch's record — you're doing it so the strength log has some idea what else was going on.
That context is what makes the log worth reading. A stalled squat during your three biggest mileage weeks is a different problem from a stalled squat during a taper, and you can only see the difference if both are in front of you.
Be clear about the limits
- No weekly mileage total
- You get a distance progression per movement, not a mileage report.
- Runs don't count toward volume
- Volume means load moved, so the headline figure is about your lifting.
- No watch sync
- Runs are here because you mentioned them, not because they imported.
- No outdoor-running catalogue entry
- It logs and charts, but under whatever you called it.
A week, logged
- "Ran 12k easy this morning"
- Distance recorded, charted against your other runs.
- "Gym: squats 3x8 at 185, split squats 3x10 each leg at 40, calf raises 3x15"
- The session that would otherwise have been a note saying "legs".
- "Right achilles has been tight since Tuesday's hills"
- Logged against that session, with movements to ease off flagged.
- "Has my squat moved at all since I started marathon block?"
- Answered from the sessions — including the ones you skipped.
Questions
Does this replace Strava or my Garmin?
No, and you shouldn't try to make it. There's no GPS, no heart rate, no route, no cadence, and no import from a watch. Your watch remains the thing that records your runs. This is where your strength work lives, with the runs recorded alongside for context.
Then why log runs here at all?
So the strength log knows what else was happening. "My squat stalled" reads differently when the same fortnight contains your three highest-mileage weeks, and that connection is invisible if the two live in separate apps.
How do I log a run?
"Ran 5k in 24 minutes" is enough. Distance and time are both recorded, and the movement charts by distance — so a rising line means further, not slower.
Is there a running exercise in the catalogue?
Not for outdoor running. The catalogue's conditioning entries are gym-based — treadmill, rowing machine, ski erg, bike, stair climber. An outdoor run still logs fine and still charts; it's just recorded under the name you gave it rather than matched to a catalogue entry.
Will it total my weekly mileage?
No. The dashboard's headline figures are built around lifting — sessions, volume, active days — and volume counts load moved, so runs contribute nothing to it. You get a per-movement distance progression, not a mileage report.
So who is this actually for?
Runners who lift once or twice a week and want that part tracked properly, without opening a second app for four sets of squats. If your training is mostly running and the strength work is incidental, a note in your running app will serve you better.
Keep the watch. Fix the gym log.
Two sessions a week deserve a record.
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