Max Workout: Cardio Coach

Buy Max Workout once, for one low price, and you get access to the world's largest variety of fun & interesting guided interval workouts—forever. We guide you effortlessly through personalized interval training, Zone 2, HIIT, reHIT, meditation, and breathwork workouts, with goal setting and goal tracking that keep you working out even when you don't want to. Easily the best value in the App Store. → New and improved charts and statistics. Looks and works a lot better. → A few important bug fixes. → Added polarized training model. Polarized training is the BEST possible way to build a more resilient heart. The core takeaway is that while maintaining an active lifestyle is essential, how you structure your exercise—through variety, recovery, and resistance training—is vital for long-term cardiac protection. Polarized Training (80/20): Roughly 80% of training should be at a low-intensity (conversational) pace, with 20% dedicated to high-intensity intervals. Resistance Training: Lifting weights is crucial for cardiovascular health, as it improves pumping efficiency without the volume overload associated with steady cardio, and it is particularly beneficial for those over 50. Prioritizing Recovery: Recovery is a physiological necessity, especially after age 50, with recommendations for at least 48 hours between hard sessions. How do you keep your arteries flexible? The production of nitric oxide in the coronary arteries is what keeps those vessels flexible and resistant to disease. Performing short, high-intensity intervals is more effective at stimulating this nitric oxide production than spending the same amount of time at a steady, moderate pace. The approach addresses the cardiac remodeling that occurs when the heart adapts to the demands placed upon it. While healthy stress with recovery leads to a stronger heart, chronic, poorly varied, and unrecovered exercise causes the heart to adapt in ways that are not beneficial. Structural changes: The heart muscle walls can thicken and stiffen, and the heart chambers can stretch and dilate. Electrical issues: The electrical systems that coordinate the heartbeat can become unreliable over time. Right ventricle strain: During sustained aerobic exercise, the right ventricle—which is thinner and more vulnerable than the left—handles a volume surge four to five times its resting level. Repeated, chronic volume stress on this side of the heart is linked to higher rates of atrial fibrillation. Oxidative stress: Prolonged moderate-intensity cardio without adequate rest generates excessive reactive oxygen species, which can overwhelm the body's antioxidant defenses, damage mitochondria in heart muscle cells, and reduce the heart's overall resilience. → Automatic Adding of Workouts Launched from Your Watch. If you say yes when Max Workout asks you to grant it permission to read completed workouts from your Health app, then Max Workout will attempt to log those workouts automatically so you don't have to add them manually. → AI Training Schedule Creator. This is a tool that will help you create custom training schedules based on what you enjoy doing and your goals → New Design. Max Workout has been redesigned for iOS 26. The much-loved guided interval training is still there, but everything else has been upgraded and improved. → More Workouts. There are new meditations and workouts. → There's a whole new planning and scheduling feature that will make creating your personalized training schedule a lot easier to create. → You can now search for workouts in multiple ways. There's a simple search by keyword for when you know what you want but not where it is. There's also a new AI Smart Match feature that asks you what you want to do and then directly starts your best-matched workout. Not sure what to do? Let AI pick for you. We also still have the One Tap feature, which takes you directly to the next workout in your weekly schedule. → Miscellaneous bug fixes. Enjoy!