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v1.19·October 16, 2026Latest New names: coaching, AME coaches and team coaches
Nothing you get or pay changed. A few names did.
New names
- Trainer help is now called coaching, and AME 1-on-1 Training is now AME 1-on-1 Coaching. What it includes didn't change.
- The person who answers your messages and watches your videos is your AME coach.
- Someone who runs a team of their own is a team coach, and that's their profile's name in the app too.
- The Trainers page is now the Coaching page. Old links still work.
AME 1-on-1 Training: 14 days free, and answers every day
Try a trainer free for 14 days. And your trainer answers every day now, weekends too.
AME 1-on-1 Training
- 14 days free the first time you start it, on the monthly plan or the yearly one.
- We take your card when you start and charge it when the 14 days end. Stop before the 14 days end and you pay nothing.
- It's once per person. If you've had AME 1-on-1 Training before, it starts on the plan you pick.
- Your trainer answers every day now, weekends included. It used to be Monday to Friday.
- Start it on the Trainers page.
Test it on Android
Have an Android phone? Sign up to test the app before it's on Google Play.
Android
- Sign up on the Android page with the email you use for Google Play. When the test opens, we email you a link to install it.
- Keep it installed for 14 days and train with it. Google needs that before the app can launch on Android.
- On an Android phone, every Get the app button on this site takes you to the sign-up.
Team test days, and a smoother first week
Every screen walked through as a brand-new athlete, and fixed where it was unclear.
Teams
- Team test days — a coach adds a test day to the team calendar, everyone logs the test in the app that day, and the coach sees who has.
The workout
- Do it today? — open a later day early and the app asks before you start it.
- The app asks for your working weight before the warm-ups, so they build up to it.
- The timer has Pause and Done.
- Something hurt? — say where, which side and how bad.
- When today's workout is done, Today shows tomorrow's.
Tests
- The jump test is called Approach jump.
- The frame counter plays at a quarter speed and zooms in, so you can see the feet leave the ground.
- Tests you have nothing to measure with are tucked under Show every test.
- With trainer help, your trainer checks the two frames you picked, and your result says when they have.
Everywhere else
- Your first report card says Your first numbers, until there is a month before it to compare.
- The daily check-in has one list for anything sore or hurting.
- The exercise library is sorted by body part.
Test your jump three ways
Measure your jump the way you can, and compare it with the same way next time.
The jump test
- Three ways to test — film it and mark the frames, measure your reach and your touch, or use a Vertec or a jump mat.
- The frame counter — step through your video one frame at a time, mark when your feet leave the ground and when they land, and the app works out your jump.
- The same way, every time — the app remembers how you tested and only compares tests done the same way.
- Your tests — every result, grouped by how you tested, with its video to watch again. A jump video waits for Wi-Fi before it uploads.
- Test days — your jump day is a test day the first time, after a deload, and when six weeks have gone by since your last test.
Getting started
- Start today instead — picked a later start date? Start your program today from the Today screen.
- Pick tomorrow as your start date in one tap.
- Keep it for later — finish a workout with nothing logged, and it's still there when you come back.
- Started but haven't trained yet? A reminder says day 1 is ready, twice at most. With notifications off, it's one email.
Profiles
Athlete, Parent and Coach each get their own home in the app.
Profiles
- One account, a profile for each job — Athlete, Parent and Coach each have their own home, tabs and messages.
- Parents open on Kids — a card for each kid: if they trained today, their week, their numbers and their next team event.
- Coaches open on Team — your team, who trained today, and who has gone quiet.
- Switch at the top of More. Add a Parent or Coach profile there too, from 18 up.
Everywhere
- Screens slide the way you go, and a workout you leave drops into a bar at the bottom.
- Fewer words on almost every screen.
- Remove set — take back a set you added and haven't logged.
The workout, one set at a time
The workout screen is a deck of cards: one exercise each, the set you're on front and center.
The workout
- A card for each exercise — its sets as rows, the one you're on big, and a strip on top to jump to any exercise.
- Done logs the target — one tap logs the set at the weight and reps on the card. When the target is a range, pick your number first.
- Change — fix the weight or the reps before you log. A new weight carries to the sets after it.
- The rest counts down in the card. Add or take off 15 seconds, or skip it.
- Holds and timed cardio log themselves when the timer ends.
- Signed out in the middle of a workout? It's waiting when you sign back in.
Report cards and injuries
- On your report card, push-ups, rows, chin-ups and other bodyweight lifts show your best set, before and now.
- Shoulders, elbows, wrists and your upper back join the places you can log an injury.
Your gym, deloads and food photos
The program fits the equipment you have, and you can take an easier cycle when you need one.
Your gym
- Five setups — a full gym, dumbbells and a barbell, dumbbells only, a barbell with no dumbbells, or nothing at all. Pick yours and each lift becomes the version you can do there.
- Four quick questions — a squat rack, a bar, somewhere to anchor your feet, a yoga block.
- A lift with no version for your setup is left out, and the workout says so.
- Ladders — push-ups, rows, chin-ups and other bodyweight lifts climb harder versions. Change rung picks another for the day.
Training
- Take a deload — make your next cycle a deload from the Program tab: the same days and exercises, fewer sets, the same weights.
- Next time — the wrap-up shows each lift's next session: the weight, the reps and what changed.
Food
- Snap a meal — take a photo of your food, check what the app found, and log it.
- Scan a label — take a photo of a nutrition label and its numbers fill in.
- Up to 15 photos a day, meals and labels together.
Trainer help
- The price of AME 1-on-1 Training came down, monthly and yearly. What it includes didn't change. See it on the Trainers page.
The 10-day program
One 10-day cycle you repeat: jump, sprint, lift and stretch.
The program
- A 10-day cycle — a jump day, a sprint day, four lift days, two flexibility and endurance days, and two rest days. It replaces the 8-day cycle.
- Every training day starts with easy cardio and two holds.
- Your next session, worked out — log your sets and the app gives you the next weight and the reps to aim for. Reps go up first, then weight.
- On a jump day you log how many max jumps you did.
Your days
- Miss a session and it moves to your next training day on its own.
- A rest day that falls on a day off counts as done.
The first exercise videos, and a steadier workout screen
Watch how a lift is done, and open a workout without the screen jumping.
Exercises
- Demo videos — the first 10 lifts have one, including the Front Squat, Power Clean, Romanian Deadlift and Bulgarian Split Squat. Tap the exercise to watch.
- A video's still picture saves to your phone with it, so it shows with no signal.
The workout day
- Opening a workout is smooth now. The bar at the bottom stays put, with no gray strip flashing on the way in.
- Every workout on your schedule opens its overview, today's included.
The 8-Week Preseason Vertical Challenge
8 weeks of training with Connor Barth, for 20 athletes.
The challenge
- 8 weeks with Connor Barth as your trainer, with a call every week. You test your jump at the start and again at the end, on video, the same way both times.
- Jump any higher and you get 4 more months of AME 1-on-1 Training free: messages and video reviews, without the weekly calls. Do the work and don't jump higher, and you get your money back.
- Everyone starts with a free 30-minute call. Book it on the challenge page.
In the app, for challengers
- Today shows your challenge — your week, the sessions you've logged so far and this week's call.
- Book your weekly call in the app, at a time that suits you.
- Film your baseline test and your retest in the app.
- A reminder at 9 AM Eastern when there's something to do — at most one a day.
Change your email, and a quicker start
Small things that make the app easier to open, start and keep up with.
Your account
- Change email — in the app under Settings, or on your account page on the website. We check your password, send a link to the new address, and let the old one know.
- Every email from us looks like the app and the website now, in light and dark.
Getting started
- The app opens on the logo and goes straight in, updates included.
- No program yet? Today shows Athlete Made Easy with one Start button.
- The first screens look like the rest of the app, and Today shows up right away when you finish.
Notifications
- Tap a notification and it opens on its own page — the whole message first, then a button to where it points.
- The group call on Today shows the time in your own time zone. A week with no call shows the next one.
- Have AME 1-on-1 Training? Your trainer chat shows when your answer is due.
Trainer help becomes AME 1-on-1 Training
The app and every program stay free. Help from a trainer is now paid, and only if you want it.
AME 1-on-1 Training
- Your own trainer — someone who knows you and answers you, by message and video. The weekly group call stays free for everyone.
- Messages — ask anything. Your trainer answers within 24 hours, Monday to Friday, or your next month is free.
- Video reviews — film a set, a jump or a test and send it, as often as you like. Your trainer tells you what they see.
- Weekly progress check — every week your trainer looks at everything you logged, to make sure you're on track.
- Program changes — busy week, sore knee, new gym? Your trainer changes your program to fit.
- If something hurts — it goes to your trainer, who adjusts your training.
- Monthly or yearly — paid on athletemadeeasy.com, never in the app. Stop any time, and it runs to the end of what you paid for.
- If a payment fails — you keep it for 7 days while you fix it. The app and your account page count the days down, with a button to fix it.
- Any age can have it, and a parent linked to your account can pay for it from their account on the web.
- Not sure yet? Book a free 30-minute call on the Trainers page and find out.
Still free, for everyone
- The app, every program, your logs, tests, Progress, report cards and Learn.
- Everything a coach does with a team — roster, join code, calendar, team chat and team program.
- The weekly group call.
Get athletic
Athlete Made Easy is our all-around athletic program. Nothing in your training changed.
Programs
- Athlete Made Easy now shows under Get athletic as well as Jump higher. It's one program: jump, lift and stretch in an 8-day cycle you repeat.
- Your days, your weights and your logs are exactly where you left them.
- Your best jump still keeps score, on every jump day. If you're on Athlete Made Easy, your goal on Progress now reads Get athletic, over the same jump chart.
Teams
- Team chats and chats with your coach are text only now, so they stay about training.
Today, the workout day, and training with no signal
The app opens faster, shows you more at a glance, and keeps working when your signal doesn't.
Today
- One card for today's workout — where you are in the cycle, the exercises as pictures, how long it takes, and one Start button.
- Needs you — a team invite, a join request or a parent link is one row. Tap it to answer on its own screen.
- Updates — news from us is one line at the top, and it clears itself after a week.
- The group call shows up two days before it starts, with a Join button while it's on.
The workout day
- See the whole workout first — every exercise with its sets, reps and weight before you start.
- Tap any exercise for how to do it, without leaving your workout.
- Jump around — do the exercises in any order. Before you finish, the app tells you which sets you haven't done yet.
- A bar counts down your rest, and shows what's up next.
Videos
- Every exercise and program has a spot for its video. Videos save to your phone over Wi-Fi, so they play with no signal.
- Settings → Keep videos on this phone shows how much space they use. Clear them any time, or let them download on cellular too.
Programs
- Every goal in one list — the program you can start now at the top, and the rest grouped by what they train.
- Tell me when it's ready — tap it on a program that's still being built, and we'll let you know. Changed your mind? Undo.
- A program's page shows a full cycle, day by day, before you start.
No signal? Keep training
- Start, log and finish a workout with no connection. It saves on your phone and sends when you're back.
- Your check-in, rest days, swaps and group-call seat save the same way.
- The app opens straight to Today, even offline — your last month stays on your phone.
- Signing out with a workout that hasn't sent yet? The app asks first, and keeps it for when you sign back in.
Notifications and messages
- Activity — everything that's happened for you, under More.
- Workout reminders only on the days you train, and you choose which ones you get.
- Mute a team chat — tap the bell in the chat to stop its pushes.
- Messages — every chat you're in, in one list: your trainer, your coaches, your teams.
A safer account, and smoother sessions
Most of this you won't notice. That's the point.
Your account
- Email invites are confirmed — a team invite or parent link sent to an email only goes through when that person opens the link we send, signed in with that same email.
- Parents confirm first — a parent opens a link in their own email before you're ever asked to accept them.
- Deleting your account ends it — you come off every team and notifications stop right away, and your messages are deleted after 90 days.
- Your trainer chat is yours — a team coach has their own chat with you and can't read the one with your trainer. A parent you've added still can.
- Under 18, the fastest weight-loss settings are off and your lowest calorie target is set higher.
Sessions
- Old drafts clear themselves — a session you haven't touched in 3 days is cleared, so you start fresh instead of landing in an old one.
- Resume session — while you have one going, today's row on Schedule says so.
- Swaps count right — when you swap an exercise, your sets count for the lift you actually did.
Messages
- Delete and report — remove a message you sent, or report one that shouldn't be there.
- Block invites — stop a coach from sending you team invites.
- The message box stays above the keyboard, and a chat opens on the newest message.
Report cards
- The sticker you share leads with your jump and your main lifts.
A simpler app
Fewer places to look, and everything where you expect it.
Find your way
- Messages — the Coach tab is now called Messages.
- Programs — Explore is now Programs: every program on one screen, grouped by goal. Start, switch or end a program from its own page.
- One word — you train a program. The app doesn't talk about plans or phases any more.
- Progress — your numbers, your lifts and your report cards on one screen.
Getting started
- A shorter start — four screens. Say what brings you here, pick your program, set your training days and check your gym, and you're in.
- Here for your team or your kid? The app takes you straight there.
- The app opens on one screen that fills as it loads, so nothing pops in after you've started reading.
Trainer help opened up, teams arrived, and parents can follow along
Three weeks of work, and none of it costs you anything.
Trainer help, free right now
- Help from a trainer is open to everyone. Message as much as you want, send a video of your jump, and take a seat on the Friday group call. No card, nothing to buy.
- Trainer help will cost something later. You get the exact price and at least 30 days' notice before it does, in the app and by email. (Update: this changed. The price was announced on launch day with 1.7, with no notice period. Nobody is charged unless they choose to buy.)
- The price will come from what trainer help really takes to deliver.
Teams
- Join a team — your coach gives you a code, or invites you by email, or you tap their link. More → Join a team, and you're on.
- My team — your coach, your teammates, the team's calendar and the team chat, all in one place.
- The team chat — one group thread for the whole team, photos and video included.
- Your coach in the loop — your coach can see your training, including your measured weight and body tests, and you have a chat of your own with them. They can't read your chat with your trainer, and they never see your food log or your readiness notes.
- The team calendar — games, practices, days off and anything else, with the time, the place and a Directions link that opens Maps.
- Nobody lands on a roster by surprise. Your coach invites you and you accept, or you ask to join and your coach lets you in. It takes both, every time.
- Running a team? Switch it on yourself from More → Set up my team. You get a roster, a join code, invites, the calendar, the team chat and the ability to put the whole team on one program.
- Coaches keep one team year to year — let new people in, take people off when they leave, and ask anyone back later without building a new team.
Under 18
- You sign up the same as everyone else. 13 and up, one screen, and you're training. We ask your birthday at sign-up and that's the end of it.
- A parent is optional, and you decide. Add one from More → Add a parent whenever you want, or never. Nothing in the app waits on it.
- What a parent sees if you add them: your training, your measured weight and body tests, and your one-to-one chats, and they can message your trainer themselves. Never your food log or your readiness notes. They can read the team chat but not post in it.
- Parents: add your kid from More → Add a kid, and their page shows their week the way a coach sees it.
Bring people in
- Your own code — share it, and everyone who signs up with it counts as yours.
- Your code is on every session card you share, with a QR nobody has to type.
- Nothing costs money right now, so there's nothing to earn or spend yet. Your code just keeps count.
- Once something costs money, you earn a share of what the people you brought in pay, for as long as they keep paying. The affiliate terms have the details.
The program fits you now
Every line below is a feature and the problem it takes off your plate.
Train
- Open-ended cycles — the program repeats for as long as you keep making progress. There's no set end; your numbers decide when it's time for something else.
- Front squat — replaces the back squat on lower-body days. Any back squat history you have stays on your Maxes and Progress.
- Your Gym — no more skipping a lift because your gym doesn't have the machine. Say what you own once and every session swaps in what you can do — or pick a swap yourself from any exercise's page.
- Jump log — no more guessing whether you're jumping higher. Your best jump is logged inside every jump session; day one is your baseline.
- Schedule Flex — missed and skipped days fit to your schedule, so you're always doing what you need next, never what you missed.
- A nudge when you go quiet — miss more days than your own rhythm allows and you get one reminder, not fourteen.
- Your days — no more forcing an 8-day cycle into a 3-day week. Pick the days you can train and the cycle stretches to fit them.
- Maxes — no more living with a number the app got wrong. See every lift max and fix it yourself.
Track
- Your Numbers — no more wondering what's holding your vertical back. The five qualities behind a bigger jump, each with your number and how it's moved, anchored on 127 real dunkers.
- Report cards — no more "is this even working?". On the 1st of each month, covering the month before: every lift that moved, before and after, as a card you can share.
- Less noise — no more reading a paragraph to find your number. Data first, fewer headers, dropdowns instead of pills.
Fuel
- Just track — no more being graded against a guess. Log food with no target at all; new members start here.
- Measured maintenance — no more formula calories. After three weeks of logging, the app works out what you actually burn from what you ate and how your weight moved, and builds any goal on that.
- Skip a day — no more one half-logged day wrecking the math. Leave it out with one tap.
Trainer help
- Trainer help: unlimited messages answered by your trainer, the weekly group call, and your program changed when it needs changing. On September 9 it became free for everyone, for now (see 1.2).
- On time, or a month free — while trainer help was paid, a late answer earned you a free month automatically, with a note in your thread. That's paused while trainer help is free (see 1.2).
- Group call — on your Today screen, with a reminder each week.
The new program
One simple 8-day cycle, built to be repeated — and to be finished.
Train
- The Athlete Made Easy Program replaces the 20-week program: two jump days, four lift days, two mobility days, holds every single day.
- Linear progression — same lifts every cycle; when all your reps are clean, add weight. No percentages to compute.
- Jump days are the scoreboard: 15–20 max jumps, log your best every session, watch the trend climb.
- Everyone training on the old program was moved over automatically — your history, maxes and logs are untouched.
Launch
The first public release — the whole training system, free.
Train
- Vertical Jump Made Easy — a 20-week program you run again and again: a testing week, five training blocks, Saturday jump days.
- A session player built for the gym floor: every set prescribed with real weights from your tested numbers, rest timers, warm-up ramps, left/right tracking.
- Timed holds get an on-card countdown; bodyweight work counts your body weight as the load — with added-load and assistance entry.
- Exercise guides one tap from any set, so you never lose your place in the session.
Test & track
- Guided testing with step-by-step protocols — vertical, reactive strength, strength baselines. Your results drive every prescription.
- Progress that proves it: your goal trajectory against reference bands, per-lift trends, adherence streaks.
- A daily check-in for your sleep, mood and soreness.
Fuel
- Food diary with barcode scanning and a target wizard — calories and macros seeded from your stats and goal.
Trainer help
- Help from a trainer: form reviews, verified tests, and a direct line to your trainer in the app.