Why I Stopped Using Two Training Apps

For a long time my training lived in three places. A running app for the runs. A separate app for the gym. And a spreadsheet on top of both, holding the actual plan, because neither app understood the idea of a build week.

The problem with that setup is not just the faff, although there is plenty of that. It is that the two halves never talk to each other.

Your lifting app has no idea you ran 30k yesterday. Your running app has no idea your legs are wrecked from squats. Any nutrition you logged in one is useless to the other. You end up being the integration layer, in your own head, every day.

One week, both halves in it

Hybrid mode in ulTrain is one weekly view with running and strength both in it. Sessions sit on the same days. The analytics count everything, so training load looks at the runs and the lifts together, not one or the other. Nutrition lives in one place. The plan lives in one place.

The week I actually train, not two apps I have to mentally add up.

You pick a mode when you start, endurance, strength or hybrid, and the app reshapes around it. The dashboard, the tabs, the tools you see first. Change your mind later and it changes with you, nothing gets lost.

If you only do one

If you only run, or only lift, ulTrain still works. It just hides the parts you do not need. Endurance mode barely mentions the gym. Strength mode does not nag you about weekly distance.

But if you do both, and you have been keeping the two sides in different apps and adding them up yourself, this is the whole reason ulTrain exists. It is the itch I built it to scratch.

Give hybrid mode a go and let me know how it holds up against whatever you are using now. I read every reply.