Get stronger. Keep your life.
BANKED gives you the smallest useful week: two strength sessions, or three short runs and one strength session if you are building to a 5K. Sensible progression, no streaks to maintain. Tell it how long you have and what kit is in the room, bank the week, and it is done.
A fitness system for people who want to get stronger without making fitness their life. It turns your goal into the smallest useful week of training, tells you exactly what to do next, and lets the rest of the week belong to you.
The problem
Most fitness plans ask for too much, need too much thinking, and make one missed day feel like failure.
BANKED solves it by
How the two-session week works
Step 1
Pick what you are working on — lose weight, get stronger, run 5K or 10K, or just get fitter — add a few numbers and tick the kit you own. You can pick more than one, and bodyweight only is a valid answer.
Step 2
Session A or B, whichever is due, fitted to 20, 30 or 45 minutes and whatever is in the room. Weights and levels move up on rules you can read.
Step 3
Two strength sessions in a Monday-to-Sunday week and the week is banked. A third is a bonus, never a requirement.
An example week
Two sessions on whichever days work. The week does not care which two. Here are three ways the same week can go.
Squat, push, pull, hinge and core on Monday. Hinge, pull, press and single-leg on Thursday. Weights nudge up when every set hits the top of its range.
Switch to travel and every exercise assumes an empty room: pike push-ups, split squats, towel rows off a door handle. Twenty minutes banks it.
Both sessions on the weekend, 20 minutes each. Still a banked week. No catch-up, no penalty, no streak to mourn.
A look inside
Every movement in BANKED comes with its own illustration and coaching cues in the app, and sits on a ladder from easier to harder so the app can move you up when you are ready. Here are eight of them. There are dozens more, and you never have to choose between them — that is the app's job.
Squat · dumbbells
Push · nothing needed
Pull · dumbbells
Hinge · dumbbells
Single leg · nothing needed
Core · nothing needed
Overhead push · nothing needed
Pull · a towel and a door
Travel weeks assume an empty room, so there is always a version of each pattern that needs nothing at all.
A good training plan should make the rest of your life feel better, not compete with it.
When life gets in the way
Choose 20 and BANKED trims sets, not the essentials: squat, push and pull stay, rest gets shorter. A 20-minute session banks exactly like a 45-minute one.
Fitness for busy peopleNothing at all works; every movement has a bodyweight ladder. Dumbbells, a band, a bar or a kettlebell just widen the choice and let weights progress.
Home and gym workoutsSwitch to travel and the session assumes an empty hotel room, whatever you own at home. Same A/B programme, same progress log.
How to train while travellingNothing breaks. The week has other days. If it ends at one, the next week starts at zero, not in debt. There is no streak to protect and no catch-up workout.
Fitness without streaksWhy it is not another fitness app
BANKED chooses the next useful thing, so you do not have to rebuild your plan every Monday.
Twenty minutes is better than waiting for the perfect hour.
Two sessions banked means the week is successful. Extra work is optional.
No fake numbers. Just how it is built.
The whole strength habit costs nothing. Not a teaser, not a trial. A paid nutrition tier is planned and clearly labelled as such.
The same inputs give the same session, every time. The programme is written in rules, not generated on the fly.
Nothing on the Today screen punishes you for having a life. The week is either banked or in progress.
No ads, no data sales, no third-party trackers. Usage statistics run only if you say yes in the cookie dialog.
BANKED is new. There are no testimonials, ratings or user counts on this page yet, because nobody has written one and we will not invent them. When real people say real things, they will appear here.
Read before you decide
What it costs
Free, forever
The whole strength habit. Not a teaser, not a trial.
This is the app. It stays free.
Coming to the app
Takes the admin out of nutrition.
Not available yet. Prices being finalised — these are the ones we’re testing.
For most people who are not training for a sport, two well-built full-body sessions a week, kept up for months, are enough to get noticeably stronger and to build or keep muscle. Progress is slower than with four sessions, and it does not stop. BANKED treats two as the job done; more is welcome, never required.
Yes. BANKED plans your training week, gives you each session, progresses it, and keeps calorie and protein targets alongside. It is not a social network, a step counter, or a place to manage streaks.
All three. Tell BANKED what equipment you have, from nothing at all to a rack of dumbbells, and every session is built around that. Switch to travel and the session assumes an empty room.
Nothing breaks. BANKED looks at the days you have left and gives you the most useful next session. If the week ends at one session, the next week starts at zero, not in debt. There is no streak and no catch-up marathon.
No. The only measure is the week: two strength sessions banked, or not yet. We think streaks punish people for having lives, so we left them out on purpose.
Both. Your goal shapes the calorie and protein targets and what the app keeps an eye on. The two-session week stays the same, because keeping muscle while losing fat needs the same strength work as getting stronger does.
Yes. Pick Run 5K and the week becomes three short runs and one strength session. The runs start at a minute at a time with walking in between and build to thirty minutes without stopping over eight weeks, which is about 5K at an easy pace. The phone tells you when to run and when to walk, so you can put it in a pocket. There is a 10K programme after it.
Yes. Losing weight and running a 5K, for example, or losing weight while getting stronger. Your goals together decide the shape of the week and the calorie target, and the week never grows past four short sessions however many you pick. You can change what you are working on at any time.
No. You tell BANKED your starting point and it picks movements you can do well: incline push-ups before push-ups, glute bridges before Romanian deadlifts. It progresses them as you get stronger.
The training is free and stays free: two sessions a week, progression, week banking, weight log and nutrition targets. A paid tier for taking the admin out of nutrition is coming to the app. Candidate prices are on this page, and you can ask to be told when it launches.
Your week is banked. BANKED says so and steps back. Do a third session if you fancy it, or go and enjoy your week.
Two useful sessions. One successful week.
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