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Strength and running. One system that refuses to make you choose.

Most training apps make you pick a side. Onward plans your lifting and your running as one programme, and every workout you complete reshapes the ones ahead.

The product

A training journey that adapts with you.

From your first week to every block that follows, Onward builds a progressive path toward your goal, adapting your training as you improve, when you plateau, and when life gets in the way.

Today

Thursday · Block 2, Week 4 of 6

Run · Tempo

Tempo 6 km

Target 4:55 /km · ~32 min

Eased 1km, still recovering from heavy squats.

Start session

Up next

Upper strength · Push

Fri

Long run · 16 km

Sun

Planned around yesterday's lifting

Coach

Block 2 review · ready

Next block

You missed both Tuesday interval sessions this block. Block 3 is built knowing that.

  • Intervals move to Saturday, the slot you never missed
  • Weekly volume holds at 38 km instead of stepping up
  • Strength is unchanged, your squat progression carries forward
Sounds good
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Watching

Both tempo runs this week came in slower than target pace. If the trend holds, next block's paces adjust down before volume goes up.

Every change, explained

Progress

Block 2 · Week 4 of 6

Squat · est. 5RM

+7.5 kg this block

122.5 kg

Weekly running volume

38 km

Consistency

88%

14 of 16 planned sessions so far

Progress on both fronts

How it works

Train. Learn. Adapt.

You train the way you already do. The intelligence happens around you.

  1. 01

    Train

    Complete your sessions, logging your lifts and runs as you train.

  2. 02

    Learn

    Onward studies what happened: your performance, your perceived effort, what you swapped or skipped, and the sessions that didn't happen.

  3. 03

    Adapt

    Your future training quietly reshapes itself to maximise against your long-term goals. No manual reshuffling.

Why it's different

Built around how progress actually works.

  • Every session shapes your next block

    Each workout you log (or miss) is evidence your next block is built from. No plan is set in stone.

  • Built equally for strength and running

    Neither side is the afterthought. Lifting and running are planned together, around each other.

  • Missed sessions become useful information

    A missed workout isn't a red X on a calendar. It's a signal the plan uses to rebalance your week.

  • Progressive overload, managed for you

    Loads, sets and paces move forward when your performance says they should. Not on a fixed timer.

  • Honest when the data is thin

    If a block ends with too little evidence, Onward says so, and extends rather than inventing a confident plan from weak data.

  • One coach, not three disconnected plans

    No more juggling a running plan, a lifting programme and a spreadsheet that ties them together.

Built for real life

A missed session is information, not a failure.

Plans written for a perfect week fall apart in a real one. Onward adapts to life and plans through it.

Busy week at work?

Missed sessions are logged as evidence. Your next block is built around what your weeks actually look like, not a fantasy schedule.

Missed your long run?

It's information, not a failure. The next block rebalances volume rather than pretending the run happened.

Heavy leg session before a run?

Your block is sequenced so the run after a heavy lower day is easier by design. Same long-term trajectory.

Training intelligence

A purpose-built training engine. Not a chatbot with a fitness prompt.

Every Onward plan is produced inside an engine we built ourselves: authored programming logic, hard safety checks every block must pass before you see it, and decision rules that turn what you actually logged into what comes next. It's built for four problems general-purpose AI doesn't solve:

  • Training progression

    When to push loads, paces and volume forward, and by how much.

  • Fatigue management

    Sequencing hard sessions and easy ones so demanding weeks land when you can absorb them.

  • Balancing running and lifting

    Sequencing both so they sharpen each other instead of colliding.

  • Long-term adaptation

    Optimising for where you'll be in a year, not just this week's numbers.

Who's building this

Engineered from first principles.

Onward is built by experienced software engineers who lift and run, and who got tired of stitching training plans together by hand.

  • Built from first principles, not one generic plan with your name typed on top
  • Currently in private development. Onward ships when it clears our own bar
  • Early testers get beta access first and shape what gets built

FAQ

Questions, answered.

No, Onward is built for hybrid athletes. People who lift and run and want to progress at both. If you only do one today, Onward will help you add the other without wrecking what you've built.

Yes. The system meets you where you are: it learns your current level from your first sessions and progresses from there. You don't need a training history or a vocabulary of programming jargon.

A barbell or dumbbells give the system the most to work with, but plans adapt to the equipment you tell it you have. Including minimal setups.

At launch, Onward automatically imports your runs from Apple Health on iOS and Health Connect on Android, so there's no double logging. You can also log any run manually, including treadmill and indoor sessions. Deeper watch and platform integrations are being explored for later.

Onward is in private development, with a private beta opening to the waitlist first. Waitlist order determines beta access, and early testers get a direct line to the team building it.

After every session, Onward compares what happened against what was planned. Paces, loads, completed, missed work, and how you're recovering. It then adjusts your upcoming sessions so each week keeps you progressing at a rate you can actually sustain. Every change comes with a clear explanation.

Stop choosing. Start progressing.

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