Frequently Asked Questions

Stackrep Fitness is an iOS app for tracking exercise sets throughout the day. You set a daily goal, tap once every time you complete a set, and watch your progress fill up. It's built for people who want to build a consistent daily movement habit — without a gym, a rigid program, or a monthly subscription. One-time purchase, $5.99. Free 60-day trial, no credit card required.

You create exercise categories (Push, Back, Biceps, Shoulders, Legs, Abs, Plank — or anything custom). You set a daily set goal per category and a total daily target. Every time you complete a set, you tap once. The app tracks your daily progress, shows a color-coded calendar, and calculates weekly and monthly averages so you can see patterns over time.

Yes — 60 days, no credit card required. That's long enough to genuinely build a habit and decide whether the method works for you. If it doesn't, you've lost nothing.

$5.99, one time. No subscription, no renewal, no monthly charge. Every feature and all future updates are included in that single purchase.

Subscription apps charge you monthly whether you use them or not. They also tend to add features continuously — not because you asked for them, but to justify the recurring cost. Stackrep is designed to do one thing well: help you track sets and build a daily movement habit. There's no feature bloat, no upsell, and no bill at the end of the month.

Stackrep is currently iOS only.

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A micro workout is a set (or a few sets) completed in a spare moment throughout the day — while making coffee, mid-walk, before bed, during a TV show. The key insight, developed by fitness researcher Mark Sisson, is that the body doesn't check the clock. If you do a set, rest for three hours, then do another set — that is still training. The body responds to the work regardless of how much time passed between sets. This reframes scattered sets throughout the day from "not a real workout" into a legitimate training method.

Yes. Consistent, lower-intensity training accumulates real volume over time. The goal is muscle activation, not exhaustion. Over weeks and months, this consistent activation produces visible results. The founder reached 6–7 pull-ups as a byproduct of consistent band and bodyweight work — without ever training pull-ups directly.

Traditional workouts concentrate all your volume into one 45–60 minute block, a few days per week. The Stackrep method distributes volume across the entire day, every day. The total weekly volume can be equivalent to 4 full training days — it's just spread differently. The advantage: it fits into real life without requiring a dedicated time block.

The app's default framework is 32 sets/day = 100% (4 sets across 8 exercise categories). In practice, a realistic sustainable monthly average is 55–60%, which is the volume equivalent of training 4 days per week traditionally. Even a 12% day — just 3–4 sets — keeps the habit alive and the muscle moving. There's no wrong number as long as you're consistent.

That's enough. One set takes about 90 seconds. Even on your most fragmented days, 3–4 sets fit into waiting, cooking, or winding down. The method is designed to fit inside existing life, not compete with it.

Zero days happen. The founder takes 3–4 full zero days per month, usually during family travel, with no guilt. The habit resumes easily because the method never depleted you. You're not recovering from exhaustion — you're just resuming. The calendar will show a red day; that's fine. The goal is the monthly trend, not daily perfection.

This was the exact problem Stackrep was built to solve. Structured workout blocks — 30-minute yoga sessions, gym visits — kept failing because they required uninterrupted time. Micro workouts don't compete with family life. They happen while making breakfast, during a walk with the kids, or after bedtime. The spare minutes were always there — hidden inside normal life.

No gym required. Bodyweight exercises (pushups, squats, plank) cover the foundation. Resistance bands extend coverage to the full body — including all pulling movements — without a gym, pull-up bar, or setup time.

Resistance bands are the key tool in this method. Without them, micro sessions are limited to push and plank movements. Bands unlock all pulling movements — rows, face pulls, bicep curls, shoulder work, pull-aparts — anywhere: kitchen, living room, mid-walk outdoors. They loop on any door in seconds, require no setup time, and can be done in regular clothes. The founder uses them for 7 of 8 exercise categories.

Any exercise that can be done in about 90 seconds, anywhere, without changing clothes or needing recovery time. The Stackrep framework covers 8 categories:

1. Push — bodyweight pushups and resistance band variations
2. Back — resistance band rows, face pulls, pull-aparts
3. Triceps — resistance band and light dumbbell exercises
4. Biceps — resistance band curls
5. Shoulders — resistance band lateral raises, overhead press
6. Legs — bodyweight squats, lunges, resistance band variations
7. Abs — bodyweight and light dumbbell exercises
8. Plank — bodyweight hold (25 seconds = 1 set)

Yes. There are no complex movements, no prescribed programs, and no performance benchmarks to hit. You set your own goals, choose your own exercises, and tap once per set. A beginner with 2–3 sets per day is using the app exactly as intended.

Because sets happen throughout the day across multiple locations, it's easy to lose count. The app keeps a running total in your pocket. Tap when you complete a set — anywhere, anytime — and your daily count stays accurate. At the end of the day you can see exactly where you landed relative to your goal.

The calendar shows every day of the month color-coded: green (goal hit), yellow (partial progress), red (missed). It gives you an immediate visual of your consistency patterns — which days you're strong, which days you're slipping. The goal isn't perfection. A mostly green calendar with some yellows tells an honest, useful story.

Yes. You can set a unique daily target for each day of the week. Lower on busy days, higher on free days. This is one of the most important features for maintaining consistency with an irregular schedule — it removes the all-or-nothing feeling on hard days.

• Daily progress toward your goal
• Weekly set totals
• Monthly averages
• Per-category averages (1, 3, 6, and 12-month views)
• Color-coded monthly calendar
• Personal records per category

The 3-month per-category view is especially useful for spotting which muscle groups you're neglecting versus over-relying on.

Traditional fitness culture glorifies exhaustion — "leave it all in the gym." This approach makes the next session harder to start and harder to fit into a busy day. The Stackrep method flips this: you always leave something in the tank. You could always do one more set — you just don't need to. This keeps the habit psychologically and physically accessible every single day.

Calorie tracking is outcome-focused and creates friction and anxiety for many people. Rep tracking requires remembering weights and progression. Time-based tracking ignores intensity. Set tracking is behavior-focused — it answers the simplest, most important question: did I do something today? One tap per set captures the habit with nearly zero cognitive overhead.

Stackrep was built by a 44-year-old father with a demanding schedule who couldn't maintain any traditional fitness routine. After fixing recurring neck and back pain through targeted muscle activation, he developed a method of doing sets throughout the day using bodyweight and resistance bands. He built the app because he needed a simple way to track sets across a full day — and nothing else on the market did exactly that.