Programming, tracking, and analytics built for every strength discipline: Competitive or casual powerlifting, weightlifting, strongman, calisthenics, and general fitness. Train solo, under a coach, or both, with individual lifters using the full platform for free and everything staying in sync across iOS, Android, and web.
Ægir Iron is a strength training platform for competitive powerlifters, weightlifters, and strongman athletes, for varsity team athletes, and for general lifters who just want to watch their numbers move. It runs on iOS, Android, and the web.
Your training data belongs to you, whether you're an athlete or a coach, and no matter which coach you train under. Move freely from self-coached to coached and back. Change disciplines, train through an injury and return. Your history follows you through every chapter. Start from a prebuilt template, import your own, or build one and save it for reuse. Add your full training history, past meets, and prior lifts by batch or manually.
And where most apps stop at logging, Ægir Iron can also assist. Turn on the optional Ægir Assistant Coach and it reads your own results to answer questions, or builds a program, logs a session, or updates a max from a plain-language request, with every change confirmed before it saves. It is off by default, and everything here works fully without it.
| What strength athletes need | Ægir Iron | Typical fitness app |
|---|---|---|
| Cycle / Block / Week / Day periodization | Built in, with a guided wizard | Usually a flat workout list |
| Guided program development | The wizard writes a full periodized plan for your discipline, priced from your own maxes, auto-progressing each cycle | A black-box quiz, or nothing |
| In-app AI assistant | Optional, grounded in your own data, and confirms every change before it saves | A generic chatbot, or none |
| Meet planning and competition scoring | Wilks, DOTS, IPF GL, Sinclair | Rare or absent |
| Load monitoring and recovery | ACWR with an EWMA companion, % of 1RM intensity zones, make rate, and an anatomical Body Map | Limited or none |
| Coach and athlete workflow | Real time sync, athletes join free | Often paywalled per athlete |
| Cost for individual lifters | Free, full platform, no card | Often subscription gated |
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Real tools for real training. This is the platform from the inside.
Auto-awarded PRs from 1RM through 20RM. Progress charts across 400+ exercises. An anatomical Body Map reads out muscle recovery and weekly volume. Add historical lifts and prior meets to keep your full history in one place.
Attempt and warmup selection for powerlifting, weightlifting, and strongman. Strongman events scored by weight, reps, distance, or time. Meet plans sync between coach and athlete in real time. Every meet plots on a performance chart with Wilks, DOTS, IPF GL, and Sinclair scoring.
Roster health at a glance. Programs and meet plans push to athletes automatically. Coaches train alongside their athletes. Your branding throughout.
Browse more than 35 ready-to-run programs across powerlifting, Olympic weightlifting, strongman, and team sports. Or answer a few questions and the Program Wizard writes a full Cycle / Block / Week / Day plan around your goal, experience, and equipment, with dedicated deep steps for powerlifting, weightlifting, strongman, and calisthenics.
Four programs from Foundations to a 12-week meet peak. The wizard adds low or high bar squat, RPE or percentage of 1RM loading, weak-lift emphasis, and a competition peak block.
Beginner through peaking programs for the snatch and clean and jerk. Choose full competition lifts or power variants, percentage or RPE loading, and snatch or clean and jerk emphasis.
Beginner and intermediate blocks that train events the way strongman loads them. Carries, sled, and yoke log by distance or for time, not like a bench press. The wizard pins your contest events onto the events day and builds implement or barbell-gym versions of every day.
Full body, upper / lower, and push pull legs templates, plus dumbbell-only and two-day minimalist options. Build size and strength on whatever equipment you have.
Bodyweight progressions from beginner to advanced skill work like the planche, front lever, and handstand, plus kettlebell strength and conditioning. The wizard programs your chosen skills at an experience-matched rung, with holds prescribed in seconds.
Off-season, pre-season, and in-season programs for basketball, football, soccer, and volleyball, plus running and mountain biking. Periodized around your competitive season.
Every plan shares the same controls: 2 to 6 days a week, a 4 to 16 week length, experience gating that keeps advanced lifts away from beginners, equipment selection so you only get movements you can load, and an optional cardio add-on. The wizard also reads the training maxes you already have: it pre-selects percentage loading when they cover your main lifts, suggests an emphasis when one lift clearly lags, and offers one-tap estimates for anything missing, with every suggestion yours to override. Log your AMRAP top sets and auto-progression proposes training-max bumps each cycle, then re-prices the whole program automatically.
Prefer to describe it in plain words? With the optional Ægir Assistant Coach turned on, you can type something like "build me a 4 day powerlifting block" and it drafts the same kind of periodized plan for you to review and confirm, with no wizard steps. The Assistant Coach is a separate add-on, off by default, and the wizard and templates work fully without it.
Every good program waves on purpose: it builds, it backs off, it peaks. Ægir Iron draws that wave across the block and lays your logged results right on top, by lift or by whole movement pattern, so a block that is drifting shows itself at a glance.
See how periodization works →Version 2.0 adds an optional in-app Ægir Assistant Coach. It is off by default, it is a separate add-on, and the entire platform, the wizard, the analytics, and the coaching tools, works exactly the same whether you ever turn it on or not. It is a tool, not the point.
Follow the program your coach loads. Log sessions, track PRs, and coordinate meet plans. Switch coaches or go solo and your data stays with you.
Build your own programs, track every lift, analyze your progress, and run your own meet prep, whether you compete or simply want your numbers to keep moving. The full platform is yours for free.
Manage athletes, write their programs, and watch their progress. Coordinate meet day from one place. Track your own training alongside the roster, with your branding throughout.
Switch coaches, go from self-coached to coached and back, change disciplines entirely. Your training data, PRs, and history follow you through every transition. No starting over.
Add prior meets, prior lifts, and historical PRs for any exercise, from bicep curls to power snatches. Keep your entire lifting life in one place, not scattered across old apps and spreadsheets.
Set your display unit in Settings and change it anytime. Every weight, PR, chart, and analytic converts instantly. Storage stays canonical, so nothing drifts when you switch.
Coaches build programs and meet plans that push to athlete accounts automatically. Update a training block or adjust meet attempts and athletes see it instantly.
Coaches program and track their own training alongside their athletes. No separate account. Your coaching roster and your own training live side by side.
Coaches assess recovery, workload, and readiness trends across the whole roster, down to a per-athlete Body Map of muscle recovery and volume. Solo lifters track the same patterns in their own training over time.
Apps on iPhone and Android. On iOS, an Apple Watch companion with face complications, Home and Lock Screen widgets, a rest-timer Live Activity, Siri shortcuts, and Apple Health auto-fill. A full web app in any browser. Your data stays in sync across every device.
Most apps bolt on a generic chatbot, if they have one at all. The optional Ægir Assistant Coach reads your own logged results and analytics, answers questions grounded in them, and can build a program, log a session, or update a max from plain language, with every change confirmed before it saves. Off by default, and the platform works fully without it.
Every individual lifter gets the full platform for free, whether self-coached or training under a coach, with no time limit and no card required. Coaches pay only for the roster tools they use, and each plan starts with a 30-day free trial.
Individual lifters get every feature for free from day one, and coaches start with a 30-day trial on any roster plan.