A personal trainer writes your plan every two weeks. Terav sharpens the plan against your data — every rep, every note, every morning.
The honest three-way comparison. Every claim traces to a study or a design decision we’ll defend.
They record your sets. That’s the whole job. Next Tuesday you have to figure out what to change yourself.
You get sessions from a library. Same session for a strong lifter and a returning novice with hip pain.
Median trainers batch adjustments biweekly. Between sessions, you’re alone with what they wrote on Tuesday.
Not a magic AI black box. A designed generator with a documented adaptive layer, showing its work at every step.
Nine questions plus a short physical assessment. What holds you back, what you’ve done, what hurts, what you have to train with. No template picker.
The generator writes a plan against your profile and your history. Every session cites the study it’s built on. Every drill lists the external-focus cue verbatim.
You log a rep, an RPE, a one-line note. The engine reads it. It proposes a load shift, a substitution, or a rest day. You Accept or Ignore. Nothing changes without your Accept.
Every 4 weeks we retest the metric that matters — submax HR, hold time, the thing your program is actually chasing. Then we sharpen the next block against what we learned.
Submax HR down 11 bpm at row-pace-5. Left hip flags dropped from 4 to 1. Load held. Read as adaptation, not fluke.
Two available now, four in build. Each one declares its evidence base and its engineering flags before you sign up.
For lifters who can barely run 5k. Row / ski-erg / bike Zone 2 plus a weekly Norwegian 4×4, with strength held at RPE ≤ 7. Expect −8 to −15 bpm submax HR by week 8.
The programme Margus built for himself after a labral question mark and years of anterior hip pain. Symptom-gated progressions, no forbidden movements at the wrong phase.
First-hold through obstacles. Six independent capability tracks (hold, walk, turns, wrist load, shoulder endurance, obstacle) each sharpened at its own level.
Scap control, dead-hang tolerance, negatives, band-assisted, then unassisted. Each sub-skill tracked and progressed independently.
Wrist load tolerance first, then wall-facing hold, box HSPUs, kick-up work. Same multi-dimensional generator as the handstand walk arc.
For the roxer who wants to keep squatting. Modality selection to protect the strength floor; VO2max is the strongest HYROX predictor.
This is the trust lever. Every rule we’ve baked into the engine — RPE ceilings, session order, modality, feedback type — traces to a peer-reviewed source. When we don’t have one, we label the choice as engineering, not evidence.
Mitochondrial biogenesis, capillary density, stroke volume, HR zones, individual variation.
Interference effect, session order, modality, protein dose, hybrid athlete research.
External focus, contextual interference, feedback type, consolidation, deliberate practice.
An explicit refusal list. Because the app makes strong claims where it can, the honest limits belong right here in the front door.
Your form isn’t visible to a phone. Drill cards flag common failure modes and force honest self-report. The notes engine catches the drift a screen can’t see.
The app is a training log. Red-flag patterns fire an escalate-to-clinician banner — not a diagnosis, not a treatment plan.
VO2max response has a ~10× range across individuals in the peer-reviewed record. Programs quote expected outcomes with the honest ranges from the literature, not one number.
A trainer’s live “elbow higher” doesn’t come through a screen. What we ship is Wulf’s external-focus cue on every drill card — the evidence-based verbal substitute.
We surface the peer-reviewed protein / carb reference (Morton 2018, Impey 2018). We don’t prescribe meals or track your macros. That’s a different app.
No dark-pattern streak notifications. If you skip a week, the plan sharpens against that too. The specialist report is the proof the arc is real — not a red badge.
“A blade gets sharper by grinding against something harder than itself. So does a training plan.”
Terav is Estonian for sharp. The plan gets sharper each session against the hardest thing available — your data. What you did yesterday, what you noted this morning, how your last block actually went.
Built by athletes at a real CrossFit box in Tartu, out of a multi-year rehab log for one lifter with a hip that wouldn’t quit acting up. If we can sharpen a plan against that, we can sharpen one against yours.
Free during beta. Backed by 100+ studies. Built by athletes at a real CrossFit box in Estonia. Beta users keep lifetime free access.