How to use FORGE
Everything you need to get the most out of your coaching — the app, the Apple Watch, and training live with Coach J. Ten minutes now saves you a hundred questions later.
Getting Started
FORGE is private — there's no public sign-up. Coach J creates your account and sends you your credentials.
Download the app
Search FORGE Training on the App Store, or use the link your coach sent. It's free for clients.
Sign in with your coach's credentials
Use the email and password Coach J gave you. Forgot it? Enter your email on the sign-in screen and tap Reset — a reset link lands in your inbox.
Allow notifications
This is how you'll hear coach feedback, live session invites, and training-day reminders. You control reminders per weekday in Settings — they fire at 8:00 AM on days you pick.
Look around
Two tabs: TRAIN (your program and workouts) and FUEL (nutrition). Your program is already loaded — your coach built it before you signed in.
Train
Your custom program, day by day. When your coach updates it, it changes on your phone instantly — no refresh, no new download.
Open today's day card
Each card shows the day's focus and exercises with your targets (like 4×8–10). Rest days are marked — take them.
Watch the form video first
Every exercise has a ▶ Form Video — hand-picked by your coach. Thirty seconds of watching beats a month of bad reps.
Log your sets
Weight × reps in two taps, or switch to HOLD for planks and hangs (weight + seconds). Repeat set? Use one-tap copy. The app suggests your next weight based on last session.
Chase the badge
Beat every set you've ever logged on an exercise and a 🏆 PR badge fires. It's rare on purpose — when you see it, you earned it.
Start Workout
The focused way to train: one exercise at a time, full screen, with a running clock. This is the mode your coach wants you in.
Tap Start Workout on a day card
You'll see one exercise at a time — big name, your last session's numbers, and a suggested weight already filled in.
Log a set, then rest
A rest countdown starts automatically after every set. Pick your rest length right on the timer — 1:00 / 1:30 / 2:00 / 3:00 — and it remembers your choice. Tap Skip to cut it short.
Fat-fingered a set? Delete it
Tap the ✕ next to any logged set to remove it — no need to leave the session.
Leave and come back freely
Exiting doesn't lose anything. Re-enter the same day and your session resumes exactly where you left it, sets and clock included.
Finish and share it
Page to the last exercise and tap Finish Session for your summary card — sets, reps, pounds moved, PRs, duration. Tap Share It and post it. Tag your coach.
Fuel
Your macros against the targets Coach J set for you — protein, carbs, fat, calories — live, all day.
Log what you eat
Tap + Log Meal and search a real food database. Type portions like a human — "10oz chicken breast", "1 cup oatmeal", "2 bananas" — and the app works out the macros.
Use your Meal Guide
If your coach built you one, it's right there in FUEL: example days that hit your targets. Tap Log on any meal and it's counted — one tap, done. Swap foods freely; the macro targets are the goal, the guide is the map.
Star your regulars
Tap the ★ on any logged meal to save it. Next time it's one tap from your library.
Water and weigh-ins
Tap +8 oz through the day, and log your body weight a few mornings a week — same time, before food. Your coach sees the trend, not the daily noise.
Apple Watch
Your whole program on your wrist. Phone stays in the bag.
Install it
FORGE installs on your watch automatically with the iPhone app (check the Watch app on your phone if it doesn't). Open FORGE on your iPhone once — that syncs your program over.
Train from the wrist
Pick your day, pick the exercise, and log — the weight is already pre-filled from your last session. Your first set automatically starts a workout: live heart rate, calories, and your Activity rings filling.
Wait for the tap
After each set, drop your arm. The watch taps you when rest is over — same rest length you picked on the phone. No phone-checking between sets.
End the workout
Tap End Workout when you're done — it saves to Apple Health with real heart-rate data. Your meals are on the wrist too: Meal Guide → tap → logged.
Your Coach Is In the App
FORGE isn't a template app — there's a human watching your numbers. Here's how to use that.
Send form checks
On any exercise, tap 🎥 Send Coach J a form check and record a set. He reviews it and sends back a reaction and a note — watch for the notification.
Join live video sessions
When Coach J goes live with you, your phone gets a push and an orange LIVE bar appears above the tabs. One tap and you're face to face — set your phone against something stable and train. He sees your sets land in real time while you talk.
Read your feedback
Weekly notes show at the top of your app; day reactions (🔥 💪 👏) land on your workout days. That's your coach telling you he saw the work.
Progress photos & notes
Friday is photo day — same spot, same light. Use the compare view to see the change your mirror hides. Daily notes go straight to your coach: sleep, stress, soreness, anything that affects training.
Common Questions
I logged a set by mistake — how do I remove it?
In session mode, tap the ✕ next to the set. On a day card, open the exercise's logged sets and delete from there. Deletions sync everywhere, including your coach's view.
My watch isn't showing my program.
Open FORGE on your iPhone first — the phone pushes the program to the watch. Give it a few seconds with both nearby. Still empty? Make sure the watch app is installed (iPhone → Watch app → scroll to FORGE).
I forgot my password.
On the sign-in screen, enter your email and tap Reset. If the email doesn't arrive, check spam — or message Coach J and he'll reset it from his side.
Does the app work without signal?
Yes. Log everything as normal — sets, meals, water, weight. It all queues on your phone and syncs the moment you're back online.
My coach changed my program — where did my old numbers go?
Nowhere. Your history is permanent and follows each exercise. When bench press comes back in a future block, your PRs and last-session numbers are right there.
What's "Reset Week"?
It archives the current week's totals into your history and clears the live week — useful if a week went sideways. Your lifetime history and PRs are untouched.
Is the Meal Guide a diet prescription?
It's an example structure from your coach that hits your macro targets — not medical nutrition advice. Swap foods you prefer; the targets are what matters.
Who can see my data?
You and your coach. Never other clients, never the public. Your data lives on Google Firebase with encryption in transit and at rest, and nothing is sold or used for ads. Full policy: privacy policy.
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