Does a readiness check stop you from working out?

A lifter opens the app after a rough night's sleep, dreading a screen that might tell her to skip today's session. Instead, she sees five options: fully recovered, good, OK, rough, wiped. She taps "wiped." The workout starts immediately.

A question, not a gate

Yield asks how recovered you feel before most sessions. One tap picks an answer, and the workout starts right away. There's also a "Skip" button that starts the session without answering at all. Nothing about this screen can stop you from training. It exists to tell the coach how you're doing today, not to decide whether you're allowed to lift.

That answer feeds into how the coach reads your session afterward. A hard set on a "wiped" day and a hard set on a "fully recovered" day aren't quite the same information, and the coach factors that in. But it's input, not a gatekeeper.

Why it's built this way

A tool that blocks you from training on a bad day would be making a decision that's yours to make, not the app's. Most days you know better than a five-option checklist whether you should train. The readiness check is there to add context to the coach's reasoning, quickly, without becoming a hurdle between you and starting your workout.

Part of starting your first month with Yield.

Yield Strength is in beta on TestFlight. Read more about what makes it different, or join the waitlist to try it yourself.