For people who train with a coach
Your coach, in your ear.
Shepherd is the iPhone app for training with a coach. Their program writes today's numbers, their voice is on every lift, and everyone on the same program trains beside you.
1 of 4
Back squat
Set 3 of 5 · Two minutes between sets
135lb×5reps
+5 lb from last time
Log the set
- SetLast timeToday
- 1130 × 5135 × 5
- 2130 × 5135 × 5
- 3130 × 5135 × 5
- 4130 × 4135 × 5
- 5130 × 4135 × 5
How it works
One session, start to finish.
The set is already written.
Your coach's program and your last session set today's numbers: five more pounds, because every rep went up last time. Every set of the lift is on one screen, with what you did last time beside it.
One tap, and it's in.
Did something else? Change the weight or the reps first, and next time is right either way. Log on the phone or on the watch, with signal or without.
Put the phone down.
The rest starts by itself and buzzes when it is time. Hold it, add fifteen seconds or skip it, from the lock screen too.
Their voice, on every lift.
Your coach records the cue once, and you hear it under the bar every time. How to do the lift, step by step, is one tap away.
That's the session.
One question on how it felt, then what you lifted and the best that fell. Your coach sees it before you have left the gym.
1 of 4
Back squat
Set 3 of 5 · Two minutes between sets
135lb×5reps
+5 lb from last time
Log the set
- SetLast timeToday
- 1130 × 5135 × 5
- 2130 × 5135 × 5
- 3130 × 5135 × 5
- 4130 × 4135 × 5
- 5130 × 4135 × 5
1 of 4
Back squat
Set 4 of 5 · Two minutes between sets
135lb×5reps
+5 lb from last time
Logged
- SetLast timeToday
- 1130 × 5135 × 5
- 2130 × 5135 × 5
- 3130 × 5135 × 5
- 4130 × 4135 × 5
- 5130 × 4135 × 5
Rest. Breathe.
Rest left
1:58
Then set 4 of 5 135 ×5
Put the phone down. It buzzes when it is time.
Jordan's cueChest tall out of the hole.
Recorded once by your coach. Heard under the bar, every time.
Session done
How did it feel?
Too easyJust rightToo hard
4 lifts
4,105 lb moved
135 × 5 back squat, a new best
That's the session.
Done
The Rally
Fifty-six days. Everyone at once.
A Rally is your coach's program run as a group: one start date, the same sessions, and the people doing them with you.
184training right now
- See who is training right now.The count is live, and it never counts you.
- Talk in the rooms.Your coach's room, and the four people you chose.
- A live clinic every week.With your coach, every week of the Rally.
Progress, said plainly.
42 sessions. 34 hours. Back squat up 15 lb since August.
October. Rest days count too.
- Every best, the day it fell.The old number and the new one, and by how much.
- Every lift, every time.Each session of it, with the sets behind every point.
Your data. Your call.
Connect Apple Health, and soon what you wear on your wrist or your finger. Then choose, switch by switch, what your coach sees. Change your mind whenever you like.
Apple HealthWHOOPOuraGarminBands are coming soon.
For coaches
Every morning, who needs you.
Shepherd reads every client overnight: missed sessions, recovery, the questions nobody answered. At seven it tells you who needs you, and you answer them with your voice.
Apply to coach on Shepherd7:12Three training · eleven waiting · about nine minutes
Sam is slipping.Three sessions missed, and eleven days since you spoke.- Jordan is grinding.Four days under forty on recovery, and a heavy session right now.
Nia is on a best run.Nine days in a row, and a best on Tuesday.
- Sell your program by the month or the year.On your own page, at your price. You pay no subscription: Shepherd takes a share of each sale, and nothing until you sell.
- Run it as a Rally.One start date, a live clinic each week, rooms, and who is training right now.
- See where a program loses people.The week they stop, the lifts they skip, and how long it really takes.
Questions.
What does Shepherd cost?
Nothing on its own. You subscribe to your coach's program on their own page, by the month or by the year, and the app comes with it. Cancel whenever you like.
Do I need a watch or a ring?
No. Shepherd works with your iPhone alone. Apple Health adds your sleep and heart rate, if you want it to.
Is it on Android?
Not yet. Shepherd is on iPhone, with the Apple Watch for logging sets.
When can I start?
Shepherd opens with its first coaches in January 2027. Leave your email and you will hear the day it does.
I coach people. How do I join?
Apply on this page. We are bringing on a small first group of coaches, and we set each one up ourselves.