A personalised workout plan sounds like something a computer spits out in two seconds. OurPace isn't slow about it either, but there's more to it than a single formula. Here's exactly what happens between filling in the intake and the moment you both have a plan.
The intake comes first
We start with questions whose answers genuinely change what your plan looks like. What you want to achieve and where you're starting from. Which activities you actually enjoy — and that isn't a politeness question. Someone who hates running will not run three times a week, however tidy the plan looks on paper. Then: what kit you have at home or can use at the gym, how many days a week you can realistically set aside, how you eat now, and what you don't eat.
After that come the practical things, and they matter more than most people expect. Do you take a cold lunch to work? Are you cooking for a family? Do you usually eat breakfast? A plan built around a solid breakfast doesn't survive contact with someone whose first meal of the day is at midday. The more honest you are here, the less you'll have to improvise later.
Then a short safety check
Before anything is generated, there's a brief check. Seven short questions, no more. Then something happens that you rarely see: the answers aren't stored. We keep only the outcome — whether your plan can be the standard one, or should be built up more cautiously — and the date you did the check.
That's a deliberate choice. Data that doesn't exist can't leak, can't be shared, and can't quietly be reused for something else later. And it isn't necessary: to assemble a plan, the outcome is enough — the story behind it isn't ours to keep. If anything about your health gives you pause, your GP is the right place for that conversation, not an app.
The plan is assembled, not invented
Your plan is built from fixed building blocks: strength, cardio, mobility and nutrition sections that were written and checked in advance. The generator selects and combines; it doesn't improvise. That means every component you see has already been reviewed, and that two people with the same pattern of answers get the same kind of plan. Predictable is a compliment here.
Lower limits beat ambition
You're welcome to set an ambitious goal. The plan just won't follow it blindly. There are floors built in — a minimum you eat, a ceiling on how fast things ramp up — and those always win against what you typed in. Wanting it faster doesn't make it faster.
That's occasionally disappointing, and we understand why. But most attempts that fall apart don't fall apart because they were too gentle. They fall apart because the first fortnight was punishing and week four never arrived.
Your two plans know about each other
Finally, your two plans are laid over one another. You each get your own, because you each have your own starting point and goal, but where it can, the app lines the shared days up. If you're both moving three times a week, those sessions land on the same days: out of the door together, back home together, and the same evenings off. If your partner's week is heavier than your own build-up allows, your own limit wins here too.
Fancy trying this as a pair? The app is in closed testing at the moment; you can join the waiting list on the home page.
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