Legend

Science-based lifting.
With progressive overload.
Achieve hypertrophy.

Use progressive overload, RPE, RIR, fatigue insights, and performance charts to make better training decisions without managing a spreadsheet between sets.

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Effortlessly

Plan your workouts

What muscles & exercises should I do?

Create a your own custom workout plans, choose from the Legend plan library, or craft one with our AI based on your needs.

What workouts should I do weekly?

Get direction with a solid plan, whether it's a 3-day split, full-body workouts, or something unique of your own.

How can I try new exercises & routines?

Adjust your current workouts with suggested exercise variations, or browse proven plans and routines.

Deadlift
Deadlift
Bicep Curl
Bicep Curl
Cable Row
Cable Row
Chest, Shoulders, TricepsBack, BicepsAbs, Legs

Make progress

Every workout

How many reps, and what weight did I do last time?

Legend keeps track of your previous reps and weight, and suggests what to do next.

Am I resting too long between sets?

Track your rest times and get reminders to keep your workout going.

Am I doing better than last time?

Monitor your reps & weight progress, and get suggestions on how to improve while you work out.

Break timer
60s

Get consistent

Stay motivated

Should I work out today?

Schedule your workouts based on days of the week or rest days between workouts. See your muscle fatigue to avoid overtraining.

How's my workout consistency looking?

Keep your workout streak going, and see your workout history on a calendar, along with how you performed.

When is my next workout?

Get reminders for your next workout, and track your progress over time.

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Week Streak
S ✓ T ✓ T ✓ S

Your streak ends today. Get a workout in!

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LEGEND LIFTERS DO MORE

Remember reps, weight lifted, RPE, and more

Log your workout with ease — save time and stay focused on your training. Track sets and effort in seconds. Legend automatically remembers your sets, reps, weight lifted, and more.

  • Remember reps, weight, time, distance, and more

  • Mark warm up, drop, failure sets, and RPE (Rate of Perceived Exertion)

  • See how well you're doing today compared to last time

  • Track your personal bests while you lift

  • Monitor your overall sets, reps, and volume for your workout

Guide progressive overload while you train

See exactly how today’s performance stacks up. Legend remembers your previous lifts, suggests targets, and helps you apply progressive overload to maximize gains, in every session.

  • Get target suggestions to push your progress

  • See your historical reps, sets, and weight in charts

  • Compare today’s lift with your previous bests

Plate calculator

Stop doing plate math between sets. Legend helps you calculate bar loading while you are already editing the set, using your unit, bar weight, and available plates.

  • Calculate plates in kg or lb while logging

  • Choose standard, lighter, heavy, or custom bars

  • Apply the calculated total back to your set

Powerful Charts to Keep You on Track

Progress isn’t always obvious — so we've made it undeniable. Get detailed analytics on every level of your training: from overall performance, to the details on specific muscle groups and exercises. See what’s improving, spot weak areas, and adjust your strategy with confidence. Legend calculates:

  • See overall training career performance

  • Track your personal bests

  • See exercise trend charts over time

  • Most recent reps and weight

  • Compare muscle groups, to identify weak areas

  • Compare performance between workouts

Smarter breaks & timers

Built-in timers help you manage rest, track time under tension, and support focused training across different workout styles.

  • Custom break timers built into every workout

  • Time your sets to find TUT (Time Under Tension)

  • Built-in stopwatch for AMRAP (As Many Reps As Possible) workouts

Get consistent & recover well

See how consistent you’ve been with your training, visualize your workout history, and monitor muscle fatigue to avoid overtraining. Legend helps you stay disciplined and training smarter.

  • Stay consistent with workout streaks

  • See muscle fatigue & know what to target next

  • Log injuries or illness so recovery does not break your habit

Explore & learn over 1600 exercises

Learn how to train effectively with over 1600 exercises. Each one includes form cues, tutorial videos, and equipment alternatives to help you train confidently, anywhere.

  • Learn exercises with video tutorials

  • Get step-by-step to improve form & technique

  • Find similar exercises when equipment isn’t available

Smart Routines, Built for Progress

Whether you’re just starting out or fine-tuning your training, Legend helps you build routines that adapt to your goals. Use pre-made plans or craft your own — and update them as you grow stronger.

  • Browse bodybuilding, powerlifting, and more

  • Craft workout plans with AI based on your goals

  • Create and customize your repeatable routines

  • Update and refine your routines as you progress

Track body measurements

Track body weight, body fat, muscle measurements, and nutrition intake — all in one place. Visualize your progress with charts that show real changes over time.

  • Track body weight, body fat, intake, & muscle size

  • See your progress in charts and analytics

Track RPE and RIR in every set

Reps and weight do not tell the whole story. Legend lets you capture how hard the set felt, whether you think in Rate of Perceived Effort (RPE) or Reps in Reserve (RIR).

  • Switch between RPE and RIR-style effort capture

  • Mark warm-up, drop, and failure sets

  • Review effort alongside reps, weight, and progression

Stay accountable with friends & coaches

Share your wins, stay accountable, and cheer each other on. Legend makes it easy to view your friends’ workouts, celebrate progress, and stay consistent together.

  • See friends' workouts and achievements

  • Send kudos and nudges

  • Nudge friends to keep them accountable

Works on iPad and Android tablets

Enjoy the full Legend experience on your iPad or Android tablet, with more room to log sets, track progress, and stay on top of your training.

  • Easier to see video tutorials and instructions

  • See your performance analytics in more detail

Log workouts on Apple Watch

Keep your phone down and work through the session from your wrist. Legend syncs the active workout, exercise order, timers, set actions, stats, and progression guidance to Apple Watch.

  • Monitor your heart rate as you work out

  • Update sets, manage rest, and move between exercises

  • Keep workout stats and progression suggestions close

What people say about Legend

We aim to help you get stronger, get consistent, and achieve your goals. But don't just take our word for it, here's what our community have to say.

  1. Easy Progress Tracking

    "I've been using Legend for a few months now and I'm loving it. It's easy to use and especially useful for figuring out progressive overload."

    ChrisT

    Apple App Store

  2. Quick & Intuitive Tracking

    "What an awesome app! It's quick to log workouts reps, sets and intuitive so it tracks your loads, personal bests and last weight/reps from previous exercises."

    WillowsZA

    Google Play Store

  3. Sleek Analytics & Motivation

    "Great looking app with a slick experience. The analytics during a workout helps with progressive overload and working to beat personal bests, or change exercises if I can see progress stagnating. The workout streaks have pushed me to be more consistent with training."

    rh22

    Apple App Store

  4. Impressive Stats & Layout

    "I'm genuinely impressed by the way my stats are presented in Legend. As a dedicated gym enthusiast, I take pride in my progress, and the app's layout and stat presentation resonate with me."

    Jam

    Google Play Store

  5. Comprehensive Workout Tracking

    "One of the better apps out there! Really useful for tracking workout data and help with progressive overload. So much exercises to choose from and detailed explanation for each workout. It is very user friendly and easy to use!"

    MilosB

    Google Play Store

  6. Stylish Exercise Tracker

    "Great exercise tracker. Very well done and stylish app. Lots of available exercises."

    HankC82

    Apple App Store

  7. Effortless Workout Logging

    "I’ve been using Legend for a few months now, and I have to say, it has transformed the way I track my workouts. The app is incredibly intuitive and easy to use, making it effortless to log my sets, reps, and weights while at the gym."

    Wackymax

    Apple App Store

  8. Feature-Packed & Impressive

    "Fantastic app that comes so packed with features, even on the free version. 10/10"

    RuanK

    Google Play Store

  9. No-Nonsense Practical Tracker

    "Amazing No B.S. workout tracker. Sleek, stylish, extremely practical"

    Saun

    Apple App Store

  10. Thoughtfully Designed & Spot-On

    "Really impressed by the thought put into this app. It's exactly what I was looking for. Great job to the team behind this!"

    ChristianM

    Google Play Store

  11. Game-Changing & Easy to Use

    "Game changer. Been using for about a week and loving it so far! Easy to use and maintain a routine."

    Mrhuffs

    Apple App Store

  12. No-Nagging, Just Results

    "I've spent the last week going through apps that can help me generate workouts and track results. After about a dozen i finally landed on legend. I like what it does, how it looks, and that it doesn't continuously try to shove a subscription down my throat."

    JacksonH

    Google Play Store

Download & get started for free

Legend builds workout plans to meet your goals, helps you progress in every session, and motivates you to be more consistent with your training.

Apple App Store
Legend Apple App Store QR Code

Scan on iPhone

Google Play Store
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Scan on Android

Science-Based Lifting Questions

Answers to common evidence-based lifting questions about progressive overload, RPE, RIR, training to failure, sets, reps, recovery, and deloads.

Science-based lifting means using training principles like progressive overload, adequate volume, effort control, exercise selection, and recovery instead of random workouts. Legend helps you apply those principles with planned routines, workout history, effort tracking, and analytics.
Progressive overload means gradually increasing the challenge over time, often by adding reps, weight, sets, or better execution. Legend keeps previous performance visible while you log so you can progress intentionally instead of guessing.
Training to failure can be useful sometimes, but many lifters manage fatigue better by stopping with 1 to 3 reps in reserve on most hard sets. Legend lets you log RPE, RIR-style effort, and set types so you can review how hard you trained.
RPE describes how hard a set felt, while RIR estimates how many reps you had left before failure. Tracking them helps you compare sessions, autoregulate load, and understand whether progress came from better strength or just harder effort.
Muscle growth can happen across a range of reps when sets are challenging and volume is recoverable. Legend helps you plan routines, track sets and reps, review muscle group volume, and adjust when performance or recovery changes.
Consider reducing load, volume, or intensity when performance drops, fatigue stays high, soreness lingers, or motivation and recovery are consistently poor. Legend brings together workout trends, muscle fatigue, injury logging, and routine editing so you can make those adjustments deliberately.
Hypertrophy can happen across a broad rep range when sets are challenging and technique stays consistent. Many lifters use moderate reps for most work, then track performance over time so volume, effort, and progression are easier to manage.
Track exercises, sets, reps, weight, effort, and workout history together. Legend keeps previous performance visible during logging so you can see whether you added reps, load, volume, or better execution.
The right volume depends on experience, recovery, exercise selection, and intensity. A practical approach is to start with a repeatable plan, track performance by muscle group, and adjust sets when progress or recovery changes.
Most muscle-building sets should be hard enough to create a stimulus while still letting you recover. Tracking RPE or RIR helps you see whether a set was truly challenging or whether progression came from simply pushing closer to failure.
Choose exercises that train the target muscle through a useful range of motion, fit your equipment, and let you progress safely. Legend combines exercise libraries, routines, substitutions, and performance history so exercise choice stays connected to results.
Many lifters train each muscle group more than once per week, but frequency should match total volume and recovery. Legend helps by showing workout schedules, muscle fatigue, and muscle-group performance so you can spot imbalances.
Strength training emphasizes improving force output on specific lifts, while hypertrophy training emphasizes building muscle size through enough quality volume and effort. The two overlap, and Legend can track both load progression and muscle-focused work.
Look for improving reps, weight, volume, technique, consistency, and recovery over several weeks. Legend turns logged workouts into exercise, muscle-group, and performance trends so you can evaluate the plan with real data.
Both can work. RPE describes how hard the set felt, while RIR estimates reps left before failure. Legend supports effort capture so you can use the method that makes training intensity easiest to judge.
Rest should be long enough to keep performance high for the goal of the exercise. Heavier compound lifts often need more rest than isolation work, and Legend's timers help keep rest periods intentional.
Yes. A workout app helps when it connects planning, logging, progression, effort, recovery, and analytics. Legend is built to keep those evidence-based training signals together instead of spreading them across notes and spreadsheets.