Meter BurnProgression
It proposes. You decide.
Most training apps either hand you a plan written for a stranger, or leave you to work out the next load in your head between sets. Meter Burn does neither: it reads your log, proposes a step, and waits.
When your log says an exercise is ready
Hit all your reps and the app notices. It proposes the next step — more load, or more reps at the top of the range — and shows you the move it is proposing, in the numbers you actually train in.
Ready is effort-gated, not just counted — a rep you ground out is not ready to be the new normal. And an incomplete workout is not evidence: a bout cut short halfway neither earns an increase nor costs a deload.
- Beat a target of 10 with an 11, two workouts running
- proposes 11
- Log that same 11 at RPE 9.5
- holds
Accept it and it becomes the prescription for next time. Defer it and it waits. Decline it and the app stays quiet.
Your ladder, not a formula
Every load control steps along the ladder you declare for that exercise: your increment, your floor, your ceiling. If your gym’s smallest plate makes 2.5 kg the real step, that is the step — the app never proposes a number you cannot load.
That is also why the ladder is authored rather than inferred. A percentage-based guess produces loads that do not exist on the bar in front of you.
Rests are proposals too
Cut the same rest short three workouts running and the app offers to shorten the prescription. You were already training that way; it is asking whether to make it official.
Nothing about that is automatic. An app that quietly rewrites your programming because it spotted a pattern is an app you have to audit — and auditing it is more work than authoring it was.
Why consent is the whole design
You are the coach. The app holds the log, does the arithmetic you would rather not do between sets, and tells you what it thinks — and then it stops, because the judgement about your training is the part you should not outsource.
It is also where the app comes from. Its author learned this rhythm from his own personal trainer — propose the step, make the case, let the athlete decide — and built Meter Burn to keep the rhythm now that he trains without one.
Nothing changes unless you agree.
That holds everywhere: loads, rep targets, rest lengths. If you never accept a single proposal, Meter Burn runs the program you authored, unchanged, forever.
Let your log make the case.
Free on the App Store · iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch · requires iOS 26.1 and watchOS 10