Old Man Fitness

The whole method, in three lines

Most fitness apps assume you will finish the workout. This one assumes you will not, and is built around that.

Start at the top

Every day is one list, ordered so the most valuable work comes first. Do number one, then number two.

Stop when you need to

Stopping early is the expected outcome, not a failure. Whatever you finished still counted, and it was the part that mattered most.

Tomorrow, go one further

The app tracks how far down the list you got. That is the only number worth beating, and you are only ever competing with yourself.

What is actually in it

Built by working through the problem, not by copying the category.

A stopwatch on anything timed

Planks, wall sits, dead hangs, the two-minute breathing drill. Start it, get into position, stop when your form goes. What you actually did is what gets logged — with the goal shown alongside.

It adapts to what you own

Tick your equipment at setup. Anything needing kit you have not got is swapped for something that needs nothing. Own nothing at all and you still get a full week, including a pushup ladder that starts at a wall.

Pin a video to any exercise

YouTube opens inside the app with the search already filled in. Find one you like, one tap pins it. From then on it plays from the exercise card.

Reps, seconds, minutes, weight

Whatever the exercise is measured in, plus what you were holding — dumbbells, a weighted vest, a loaded backpack. It always shows what there is to beat.

147 exercises, properly sorted

By muscle group, by difficulty, and by the kit they need. Add a leg exercise and it turns up on leg day without you deciding anything.

Talks to Health Connect

Finished days are written as real workouts — the walk as cardio, the rest as strength training, each exercise a named segment. Google Health, Samsung Health and Fitbit can all read them.

A note on honesty. Calorie figures in the app are estimates from your bodyweight and how long you actually trained — roughly right, give or take a quarter. They are labelled as estimates everywhere they appear, and there is no daily target to spend against. It is a record of what you did, not a budget.

Why this exists

I built this for myself first.

I am older, heavier than I want to be, and starting over. At some point getting started stopped feeling hard and started feeling impossible — not because the exercise was beyond me, but because everything about it was confusing. Which exercises? In what order? How much? Is this one going to hurt my back?

Every app I tried assumed I already knew. They handed me a workout and expected me to finish it. I never did. And the moment I stopped early, the app treated the day as a failure and showed me a broken streak.

That is backwards. For someone starting from nothing, stopping early is the workout. So the list is ordered by what matters most, and you work down it until you have had enough. The app records how far you got — not how many boxes you ticked — because that is the number that actually moves.

Everything else follows from that. Plain descriptions instead of jargon. A video on every exercise so you can see it done properly. Nothing that needs equipment you do not own. Your data stays on your phone, because it is nobody's business but yours.

It is working for me. That is the only claim I will make.

— Brian, Stillwork Labs

Your data does not go anywhere

There is no server to send it to. That is a design decision, not an oversight.

No account, no sign-in, no password to forget
Everything you log stays in storage only this app can read
No analytics, no advertising, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
The developer never receives your data, because there is nowhere for it to go
Delete all of it any time — from the app, or by uninstalling

Read the full privacy policy →

Start from nothing.
Get one further
than yesterday.