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Liftspan

Strength training that knows you're not 25

A strength app that grades every movement for joint and lower-back risk, moves the weight for you, and reshapes the session when you say "shoulder's cranky and I slept badly." Six training environments. Works offline. Free tier, no ads.

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Hi Product Hunt 👋

I'm 58. Three years ago I went back to lifting after a long layoff and found that every training app was built for someone else: a 25-year-old with no history in their body. They'd cheerfully hand me behind-the-neck presses and tell me to add 10 lb a week to a movement my shoulder didn't care for.

So I built the one I wanted, and today it's live on the App Store.

Liftspan grades every movement in its library for joint and lower-back risk. Put in your real age and the plan tunes itself: risky movements filtered out and replaced with something that trains the same muscle, load jumps halved so tendons keep up, longer rest, more frequent deloads. Nothing to opt into, and every decision is visible and yours to overrule. That joint grading is free and always will be. Charging someone not to hurt themselves would be a strange way to run this.

The thing I'm most pleased with is the daily check-in. Type "shoulder's cranky and I slept badly" and today's session swaps the overhead work, drops a set and 10% off the load, for one day only. Tomorrow your program is back, untouched. It's not AI; it's a keyword read over the same adaptation engine that handles switching from a full gym to a hotel room. That means it's instant, works with no internet connection, and the words you type are read on your phone, not shipped to a server.

A few other things that came from actually using it:

Six environments: full gym, home, hotel, bodyweight, dumbbells, bands, or choose exactly what you have handy. Switch mid-block and every weight you've worked up to carries across.

Progression on rails. Reps climb inside your range, then the weight goes up and reps reset. You never have to decide what to lift.

A weekly streak, not a daily one. You don't have to lift every day, and past fifty recovery is the constraint, not motivation. One missed week every eight is shielded, just like your conscience when you choose cardio instead of weights.

Everything's kept. Every set of every session, back to week one. Works offline in a basement gym and syncs when there's a signal.

Try it free in ten seconds, no install and no signup, right in your phone's browser at liftspan.fit/app. Want it on your home screen? It's on the App Store, free to start.

Free:

  • Log every session

  • A safe starting plan that works around your joints

  • Streaks and the age-banded league

  • Full data export

  • No ads, no session limits

Pro ($7.99/mo or $59.99/yr, 30-day free trial):

  • The daily "shoulder's cranky" check-in

  • The full progression engine

  • Every training environment

  • The progress screen that proves you're getting stronger

  • Sync across every device

I'd genuinely like to hear from anyone training in their 40s, 50s, 60s about what your apps get wrong. And from anyone younger, it works for you too, the defaults just change.

— Dave

About Liftspan on Product Hunt

Strength training that knows you're not 25

Liftspan was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #71 on the daily leaderboard. A strength app that grades every movement for joint and lower-back risk, moves the weight for you, and reshapes the session when you say "shoulder's cranky and I slept badly." Six training environments. Works offline. Free tier, no ads.

On the analytics side, Liftspan competes within iOS and Health & Fitness — topics that collectively have 194.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Liftspan performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.

Who hunted Liftspan?

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