Running and lifting compete for the same recovery. Most apps ignore that.
COACHRA builds one plan for both, then keeps it honest when real life gets in the way.
ONE PLAN, NOT TWO
Your running and your lifting are scheduled against each other, not beside each other. Hard lower-body work does not land the day before a quality run. The long run gets fresh legs. Roughly three hard sessions a week, because that is what an adult with a job can absorb.
IT ADAPTS WHEN YOU DO NOT
Missed a day? Skip it, move it, or push the whole plan back. Nothing breaks. A 30-second readiness check-in and your recent training load decide whether today should be easier — and when the answer is rest, it says rest.
PACES FROM YOUR RUNNING, NOT A TABLE
Targets come from your own recent runs and move as you get faster. Hills are accounted for using a published metabolic cost model, so a route estimate is what it will actually take you, not a flat-ground guess.
A COACH THAT SHOWS ITS WORKING
Ask why a session is what it is. The coach reads your actual training before answering, and separates what comes from a named study from what is simply established practice. It never invents a citation, never sells you anything, and will tell you to see a physio when that is the right answer.
And it changes things. Do not like a lift? It swaps it. Only have thirty minutes, or no barbell today? It rebuilds the session. Sore knee? It works around it for a couple of weeks and brings the lifts back on its own. Once a week it looks over what you actually did, tells you the one thing to change, and asks how it felt.
FUELLING THAT FOLLOWS THE TRAINING
Targets rise on long-run days and settle on rest days. Log food by barcode or search, build meal plans from the week ahead, and log what you planned in one tap. Not counting calories is a supported answer, not a failure.
RUNS, ROUTES AND MAPS
GPS tracking with splits, elevation and grade-adjusted pace, free. Route planning is Premium: draw with your finger and it snaps to real roads and trails, or let COACHRA generate one for a target distance. Privacy zones hide your home before anything is shared.
ALSO INSIDE
- HYROX race projection, with the stations costing you the most time
- Apple Health import for anything recorded on your watch
- Clubs, challenges and a feed of the people you follow
- Full data export, and account deletion that actually deletes
FREE, AND PREMIUM
Everything you log is free forever — runs, workouts, food, your whole history. Premium adds the full multi-week plan, daily coaching instead of three messages a week, adaptive targets and meal plans built around your training.
Monthly and annual plans, both starting with a 7-day free trial. Prices are shown in the App Store for your region.
Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage them in your Apple ID settings.
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