Axial

One plan for every sport you train.

Lifting, running, riding, swimming, Hyrox and more, planned together around your week and the equipment you have. Build to a race, set a number of weeks, or keep it going. Check in each morning and your session adjusts.

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Free while in beta. It runs in your phone’s browser; add it to your home screen to use it like an app.

Axial’s Today screen: a full body strength session with a Start workout button, a readiness score of 72 saying recovered, train as planned, and the week ahead.
Axial’s plan for one week: a fartlek run, two strength days, compromised running for Hyrox, and a long run, each marked with a color for its sport.

Train for several things at once.

Pick every goal you have and one to lead with. Axial fits them all into one week.

These are a few of them. Choose one to see a real week and a session.

Squat, bench, deadlift and press in blocks that build from week to week.

Week 1 of a strength plan: Push · Bench, Legs · Squat, Legs · Squat, Push · Bench and Pull · Deadlift, with rest on Wednesday and Sunday.
Week 1
The main set of a squat day: back squat, 4 sets of 8 at 210 pounds and 67% of the athlete’s max, then Romanian deadlifts, split squats, leg curls, calf raises and carries.
Today’s squat session

Sample athlete with a 315 lb squat max. The back squat is 4×8 at 210 lb, 67% of it.

Weekly volume for every muscle, trained close to failure, with the areas you want to bring up getting extra.

Sets per muscle this week: a bar for each muscle against a green band of 10 to 20 sets, with shoulders and triceps starred as focus areas, above the training split set to upper and lower.
Sets per muscle
The accessories of an upper day as supersets: lat pulldown with cable lateral raise, dumbbell curl with pressdown, cable fly with suitcase carry, each with a starting load, and a note that the shoulder exercise has two extra sets as a focus area.
An upper day

Sample athlete with a 205 lb bench and shoulders and triceps as focus areas. They get extra sets, and accessories come paired as supersets.

From 5K to marathon: easy runs, intervals, tempo work and the long run.

Week 1 of a running plan: easy run with hill strides, 30/30s, progressive tempo, another easy run and a long run, with rest on Wednesday and Sunday.
Week 1
A 30/30s run: a zone chart, a warm-up with strides, a main set of nine 30-second efforts at 6:41 to 6:47 a mile, and a cool-down.
Today: 30/30s

Sample athlete with a 22:30 5K. The 30/30s are run at 6:41 to 6:47 a mile.

Intervals in power zones and long rides, spaced around your hard days.

Week 1 of a cycling plan: recovery spin, low-cadence sweet spot, 30/30s, another recovery spin and an endurance ride with sprints, with rest on Wednesday and Sunday.
Week 1
A low-cadence sweet spot ride: a zone chart, a warm-up, two 10-minute blocks at 221 to 234 watts and a cool-down, each with a power range.
Tuesday: low-cadence sweet spot

Sample athlete with a 260 W FTP. The sweet-spot blocks are 221 to 234 W.

Pool sets from easy aerobic work to hard repeats.

Week 1 of a swimming plan: a CSS pyramid on Monday, fast 50s on Thursday and a pull and swim set on Saturday, with rest on the other days.
Week 1
A CSS pyramid swim, 30 minutes and 1,600 meters: a zone chart, a warm-up, a 100-200-300-200-100 meter pyramid at 1:41 per 100 meters and a cool-down.
Monday: CSS pyramid

Sample athlete with a 1:40 per 100 m threshold. The pyramid is swum at 1:41 per 100 m.

Swim, bike and run in one week, with brick sessions.

Week 1 of a triathlon plan: a sweet spot ride, 30/30s run, threshold swim, long run with surges and an endurance ride, with rest on Wednesday and Sunday.
Week 1
A sweet spot pyramid ride: a zone chart, a warm-up, a 6-8-6 minute pyramid at 220 to 235 watts and a cool-down.
Monday: sweet spot pyramid

Sample athlete with a 22:30 5K, a 250 W FTP and a 1:45 per 100 m threshold. The bike pyramid is 220 to 235 W.

Division weights, compromised running and the strength work behind them.

Week 1 of a Hyrox plan: compromised running, 30/30s, full body strength, station strength and a long run, with rest on Wednesday and Sunday.
Week 1
A compromised running session: warm-up, a station primer, then rounds of a 1 km run into the SkiErg, sled push at 335 pounds and sled pull at 225 pounds.
Monday: compromised running

Sample athlete in Men Open. Sled push is 335 lb and sled pull is 225 lb, each after a 1 km run.

Intervals, metcons and mixed aerobic work.

Week 1 of a conditioning plan: conditioning intervals, a deadlift day, a metcon, mixed aerobic work and a full body strength day, with rest on Wednesday and Sunday.
Week 1
A metcon: three rounds of 40 seconds on and 20 off with dumbbell deadlift to high pull, push press, wall balls and renegade rows.
Thursday: metcon

A metcon is three rounds of 40 seconds on and 20 off, with loads set for you.

Racing? Add the date and the plan counts back from it: base, build, peak, taper. Want a set block? Choose the number of weeks. Neither? It keeps going, with deloads built in.

How it works

  1. Tell Axial about you

    Your goals, rough current numbers, training days, session length, equipment and any injuries.

  2. Get your plan

    Every week laid out session by session, with exercises, loads and paces. Anything your equipment can’t do is swapped for the closest option.

  3. Check in each morning

    Rate your energy, soreness and stress, flag any pain, and add numbers from a watch or ring if you have them. It takes a minute and sets the day.

Same plan, three mornings.

Choose how you feel and watch Tuesday change.

Recovered. Train as planned.

Full body strength, 1h 00m. Nothing changes.

Partly recovered. Today’s load is trimmed.

Full body strength, 40 min. Volume cut about 25% and intensity capped at RPE 7.

Under-recovered. Today is for recovery.

Swapped for a 40 min recovery session. The plan resumes tomorrow.

Today screen after a good check-in: readiness 76, recovered, a full body strength session of 1h 00m. Today screen after a rough check-in: readiness 62, load trimmed, the full body strength session cut to 40 minutes with a note saying volume is down about 25%. Today screen after a very rough check-in: readiness 45, under-recovered, the day swapped for a 40 minute recovery session.

It keeps adjusting after day one.

Choose one to see it in the app.

Deloads when you need them

Axial calls a deload week when your readiness, effort and pain reports say you need one. Prefer a schedule? Fix it at every 4th, 5th or 6th week.

About five hours: hill repeats, two lifting days, Hyrox running and a long run.

One tap and the same week drops to 3 h 55 min. Lighter lifting, three rounds instead of four, a shorter long run.

Choose adaptive, or a deload every 4th, 5th or 6th week.

Week 1 of a plan, five hours in total: hill repeats, full body strength, a deadlift day, compromised running and a long run, with a Deload now button under the week. The same week as a deload, 3 hours 55 minutes in total: easy running with strides, shorter strength days, three Hyrox rounds and a 55 minute long run. The plan setup screen with Deload timing set to Adaptive and the options Every 4th, Every 5th and Every 6th, above the choice of how lifting progresses.

Sample athlete training for strength, running and Hyrox.

Loads that follow your logging

Log weight, reps and effort. Axial estimates your max, flags personal records and sets your next loads up or down.

Four sets of eight at 225 lb, against a target of 210.

“Estimated max 308 lb, ahead of plan. Next session +2.5%.”

Squat opens at 225 lb with last time beside every set. Bench goes up 5 lb.

Set logging for a back squat: four sets of 8 at 225 pounds, all ticked, against a target of 210, with an effort rating of 7. Today after saving the workout: a message saying estimated max 308 pounds, ahead of plan, next session plus 2.5 percent, above the finished full body strength session. The next squat day: back squat 4 sets of 8 at 225 pounds with last week’s 225 by 8 shown beside each set, and bench press at 195 pounds with the note hit every rep last time, so plus 5 pounds.

Sample athlete with a 315 lb squat max, logging a squat day.

Say what you want more of

Ask for more legs, more zone 2 or less arms. Axial shows exactly what changes before anything is saved, and you can undo it.

Type it in your own words, or pick one from the list.

Extra sets for legs on both lifting days, and a 40 minute easy run on Sunday. Nothing is saved until you apply it.

The Adjust your plan screen with “More legs and more zone 2” typed in a box, a See what changes button and a list of options such as more legs, more glutes and less arms. The What changes list: extra sets for quads, hamstrings and glutes on Tuesday and Thursday, and a 40 minute easy run on Sunday, each with a tick box, and an Apply these 2 button.

Sample athlete training for strength, running and Hyrox.

Pick your split

Full body, upper/lower, push/pull/legs, body part, conjugate and more. Switch any time and the rest of the plan rebuilds, with hard sets counted for every muscle.

With five lifting days it chose push / pull / legs.

Four days. Each half is trained twice a week.

Every muscle each session, with a different main lift each day.

Back, chest, shoulders, legs and arms, one area a day.

Week 1 as push, legs, legs, push and pull days, about five hours, with the training split set to Let Axial choose: push, pull, legs for five lifting days. Week 1 rebuilt as lower squat, upper press, lower deadlift and upper bench, 3 hours 35 minutes, with the training split set to Upper / lower. Week 1 rebuilt as four full body days: strength, strength, deadlift and bench, with the training split set to Full body. Week 1 rebuilt as back with deadlift, chest with bench, shoulders with press, legs with squat and arms, with the training split set to Body part split.

Sample strength athlete with five days a week free.

Works around injuries

Tell it about a knee, low back, shoulder, Achilles, hip or chest issue and exercises that tend to aggravate it get swapped out. It supports care from a clinician and doesn’t replace it.

Back squat, 4 sets of 8 at 210 lb.

Box squat to parallel, marked as a knee-friendly swap.

Box squat with a narrow stance, marked as a hip-friendly swap.

A full body strength session whose main lift is the back squat, 4 sets of 8 at 210 pounds. The same session with a knee limit: the back squat is replaced by a box squat to parallel, marked as a knee-friendly swap with the load set by feel. The same session with a hip limit: the back squat is replaced by a narrow-stance box squat, marked as a hip-friendly swap with the load set by feel.

The same full body day for an athlete with no limits, then a knee limit, then a hip limit.

Responds to pain

Pain reports move runs to low-impact work. Strong pain turns the day into recovery and tells you to get it checked.

Hill repeats, as planned.

Running becomes 40 minutes of bike or elliptical, and intensity is capped.

Recovery only, with a note to get it looked at.

Today with a hill repeats run of 45 minutes, a zone chart and a Start workout button. Today after reporting knee pain: an impact-free bike session replaces the hill repeats, with a note that running was swapped to bike or elliptical to unload the knee and intensity is capped. Today after reporting 7 out of 10 knee pain: a recovery session replaces the run, with a note that today is recovery only and to get it looked at if it lasts more than 48 hours or brings swelling or night pain.

Same morning, same sample athlete. Only the pain entry in the check-in changes.

Different gym today?

Rebuild any session for the equipment in front of you. Tomorrow goes back to plan.

SkiErg, sled push at 335 lb and sled pull at 225 lb.

Untick what this gym doesn’t have.

Band pull-downs, a treadmill push and a cable rope pull take their place.

A Hyrox session’s rounds: a 1 km run into the SkiErg, sled push at 335 pounds, sled pull at 225 pounds and burpee broad jumps. The equipment list for a different gym today, with the SkiErg and sled unticked and Rebuild today’s session below. The same Hyrox session rebuilt: band pull-downs with burpees, a treadmill sled push with the belt off, and a cable rope pull, each noting what is missing.

Friday’s Hyrox session for the sample athlete, rebuilt for a gym with no SkiErg or sled.

Bring your coach’s plan

If a coach writes your workouts, paste them in. Axial puts them on their days, logs them and keeps your records without changing a thing.

Copy it from a message, email or sheet. Axial reads each day and shows it to you first.

Their weights, sets and reps, as written. You log it like any other workout.

The paste screen for a coach’s plan: six days read from a pasted week, from Monday’s squat day to Saturday’s long run, with a button to put them on this week. Monday’s workout from the coach: back squat 5 by 5 at 275 pounds, Romanian deadlift 3 by 8 at 225, walking lunges and planks, with a note that it is kept as written.

A made-up week from a made-up coach called Mel.

Take it to your watch

Send structured workouts to a Garmin as .FIT files, or to Zwift as .zwo and .erg files. Import finished activities from Garmin, Wahoo, COROS, Strava or Zwift.

Step by step for Garmin, Apple Watch and others, with the workout file ready to download.

Import the file your watch recorded and Axial fills in the session.

The Send to watch panel for a Garmin: six steps from downloading the workout file to starting it on the watch, and a Download workout files button. The log screen for a run, with an Import from your watch or bike computer button above time, distance and heart rate boxes.

A hill repeats run for the sample athlete.

Your data stays yours

Export your workouts as CSV or a full backup as JSON. Delete your account and everything stored with it from inside the app.

The Your data card in Profile with Recently deleted, Export workouts as CSV and Full backup as JSON.

Under Profile, Your data.

What it looks like

  • The Adjust your plan screen: a box to type what you want more or less of, a See what changes button, and a list of options such as more legs, more glutes, more hard intervals and more mobility.
    AdjustSay what you want more or less of. See what changes before you save.
  • Set logging for a back squat, four sets of eight at 210 pounds, with weight and reps boxes and a tick for each set.
    SessionLog each set. Loads come filled in from your plan.
  • Week one of a plan, listing a fartlek run, full body strength, a deadlift day, compromised running and a long run.
    PlanA week of mixed sessions, color-coded by sport.
  • A month calendar with planned runs, strength and Hyrox sessions in color on their days.
    CalendarThe weeks ahead. Drag a session to another day.

Screens are from the web beta, using a sample athlete.

Works with the gear you already use.

No account linking yet. Everything moves by file, or by numbers you type in.

Out to your watch or trainer

Structured workouts as Garmin .FIT files and Zwift .zwo and .erg files, one session or a whole week at a time.

In from your activities

Import .FIT, .TCX and .GPX files from Garmin, Wahoo, COROS, Strava or Zwift to fill in a workout automatically.

Recovery numbers

Type in HRV, resting heart rate and sleep from your watch or ring when you check in. Direct connections to Oura, WHOOP, Apple Health and Strava are planned. None are live yet.

Questions

Is Axial free?

Yes, while it’s in beta. Pricing isn’t set yet.

What do I need to start?

A phone or computer with a web browser and an email address for your account. On iPhone, open the beta in Safari and use Share, then Add to Home Screen. A native iPhone app is planned.

Does Axial use AI?

No. Your plan comes from a rule-based coaching engine, and your data isn’t sent to an AI model.

What happens to my data?

Your plan, check-ins and logs are saved to your account so they follow you to a new phone. During the beta, the Axial team can read them to fix problems and improve the app. We don’t sell your data or use it for advertising.

You can export or delete it from Profile, then Your data. The details are in the privacy policy.

Is this medical advice?

No. Axial is a training tool. Talk to a clinician before you start if you have a medical condition, an injury, or you’re pregnant or recently gave birth. Read the health and safety notice.

Who makes Axial?

Axial is an independent project. Questions and feedback are welcome at hello@getaxial.training.

Build your plan in a few minutes.

Set your goals, pick your days and your equipment, and your first week is ready.

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