A training app · lifting & cardio

You pick the exercises.
We build your program.

Talon builds the structure — your split, your weekly volume, your progression. You choose every exercise that fills it, from the workout reels you've saved or a library of 800+. Then it coaches the session and logs every set.

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Horizontal push Compound
@thebarbellbrief · Barbell
Barbell Bench Press

You saved this 3 days ago and rated it 5★. Leads your press slot.

Option 1 of 4
4Sets
6–10Reps
80kgStart
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Try the arrows — that's the real thing
A program, not a folderGoal in, week out — balanced across muscle groups, with volume that actually adds up.
Coached, set by setRest timers, every set logged against last time, targets that move when you do.
Lifting and cardioStrength, muscle, full body, splits, mobility — plus heart-rate-guided intervals and Zone 2.
Why nothing you've tried stuck

Training apps fail you two ways.

The filing cabinet

You've saved 300 workouts across Instagram and TikTok. You still do the same five exercises. The app that stored them never once told you what to do on Monday.

The stranger's template

So you download a 12-week program written for someone else's body, someone else's gym, someone else's schedule — and quit in week three when it stops fitting.

Talon is neither. The engine handles the part that's math — split, volume, fatigue, progression. You handle the part that's taste — which exercises you actually want to do. Neither of you does the other's job.

“Saved another leg-day reel last night. That folder is where workouts go to die.”

— heard all over r/GYM

“I have 300 saved workouts and I still do the same 5 exercises every week.”

— every comment section under a workout reel
How it works

Three minutes to a real week.

No account connection. No scraping. No blank screen asking you to build a workout from nothing.

Step 1

Tell it your goal

Muscle, strength, cardio, full body, a split, mobility. Days per week. What equipment you actually have. One screen.

Step 2

Swipe your week together

One movement slot per screen, already filled with the engine's best pick. Swipe down through the workout, sideways through alternatives. Nothing to type, no lists to drag.

Step 3

Train it

Talon counts your rest and logs each set against what you did last time. Next week's targets come from what you actually lifted — not from a spreadsheet.

The part nobody else built

Vertical is the workout.
Horizontal is the choice.

Every other app makes you build a workout in a form — rows, pickers, a search field, a drag handle. We deleted the form.

Each slot is one full screen with the exercise playing. The engine has already chosen the movement pattern, the order, the sets and reps. All that's left is the only question you actually have an opinion about: which exercise goes here? Swipe sideways and it's a different one — from your own saved reels first, ranked by what you've rated and trained.

Every gesture has a visible button doing the same job. You'll swipe by day three; you'll understand the screen in second three.

Upper A · slot 1 of 64 of 6 from your reels
Swipe ↓
slot 1/6
Swipe →
option 1/4
Alternatives are never random: same movement pattern, same primary muscle, same equipment you own — your reels ranked above our library. Instant, no loading spinner.
Fill your library

Your reels make it personal.
They're not a requirement.

Talon is a training app first. Saved reels are the fastest way to make the programs feel like yours — but an empty library still gets you a complete, balanced week from day one.

Share a reelInstagram or TikTok → Share → Talon. The AI names the exercise and keeps the form cues. One tap to confirm — and it lands in a slot, not a pile.
Screenshot anythingA whiteboard, another app, a coach's text. If it's a workout, it can come in.
800+ exercise libraryEvery gap the engine can't fill from your saves, it fills from a real exercise database — flagged, so you can replace it later.
Just say itDescribe the workout out loud, or type it — one card to confirm, straight into a slot.
Six goals, one engine

Pick a goal. See the week.

Program · Muscle building · 5 daysBuilt from 23 saved reels ✓

Every one of these is the same engine with different slot templates and rep schemes — which is why switching goals doesn't mean starting over.

Or do it yourself

Start from an empty week.

Don't want anything generated? Build the whole thing by hand. The engine stays on as a second opinion, never a driver.

As you add exercises it shows live weekly volume per muscle against the range that actually grows muscle, flags what you've left thin, and offers ranked suggestions from your own reels to close the gap. Sets, reps and rest arrive pre-filled from your goal — change any of them on a wheel.

It will never move an exercise you chose, or quietly swap one out. It tells you what's missing and waits.

This week · hard sets per muscle2 gaps
Chest
12 sets
Back
15 sets
Quads
11 sets
Delts
4 sets
Hamstrings
5 sets
The mark at 8 is where a muscle starts growing. Delts and hamstrings are thin — one exercise each closes the gap.
Not just lifting

Cardio that knows what it's doing.

Pick the Cardio goal and the same engine builds a polarized week — the way endurance athletes actually train: mostly easy, one brutal session, nothing wasted in between. Then Talon coaches you by heart rate — phone in your pocket, earbuds doing the talking.

Zone 150–60% · recovery
Zone 260–70% · base
Zone 370–80% · tempo
Zone 480–90% · threshold
Zone 590–100% · peak
Bands are % of your max heart rate — set from your age, tuned as you train

The 4×4

The Norwegian interval protocol from the NTNU trials: 4 minutes hard at 85–95% of max, 3 minutes easy, four times through. In the published studies that's roughly 7% more aerobic capacity (VO₂max) in eight weeks — the most studied 40 minutes in endurance training.

Zone 2 that stays in Zone 2

Steady base work with guardrails that stop you drifting too hot — drifting is how most people “do Zone 2” and get nothing from it. Every ten minutes, one check: “could you speak a full sentence right now?”

Zones from one question

Your age sets your starting zones, using the formula from Norway's HUNT study of thousands of measured adults — sharper than the old 220 − age. Every session refines them from what your heart actually did. No lab test, no guesswork.

4×4 session · 40 minutes
Warm-up 10 min4 × 4 min hard · 3 min easyCool-down 5 min

Cardio sessions land in the same week as your lifting, spaced so the hard ones don't fall on top of your heavy days. One program, one calendar. Live heart-rate guidance pairs with Apple Watch or any Bluetooth heart-rate strap.

Every set counts, if you want it to

Logging at two speeds.

Some days you want the numbers. Some days you want to train and go home. Talon doesn't make you declare which kind of person you are in a settings screen.

Tap the tick and the set is done as shown — one tap, rest timer starts. Tap a number and you get iOS-style wheels for weight and reps, with a click you can feel. The row always shows what a tick would record, so you never log a number you didn't see.

Last session's numbers sit on the left of every row — every set is a rematch you can see. Beneath the sets, the progress log for that exercise: volume per session, or total reps if it's bodyweight, so pull-up progress isn't invisible. Next cycle's targets come from all of it.

Set 1
95kg × 9
logged
100kgWeight
10Reps
Set 2
95kg × 8
as planned
100kgWeight
8Reps
Set 3
95kg × 7
last time
100kgWeight
7Reps
Progress log · volume (kg)
Today · 2 of 4 sets · top 100kg×10 → 1 800 kg
Jul 18 · 4 sets · top 95kg×9 → 2 945 kg
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Creators stay credited

Every exercise links back to the original reel and the creator who made it.

We never re-host video. Your program sends traffic back to the coaches you already follow — their handle is on the card while you train.

Fair questions

Before you ask.

Do I need saved reels?

No. The exercise library covers a complete program on its own. Reels just make it yours — your coaches, your movements, your style of training.

What if the creator deletes the reel?

You keep what matters. The exercise stays in your program, the form cues stay with it, and every set you've logged against it stays in your history. Only the clip goes — and the standard demo takes its place.

Does it read the sets and reps off the reel?

No, and it won't pretend to. Most reels never state them. Talon writes the program — the sets, the reps, the progression — and the reel tells it which movement you want and how you like it performed.

Does it scrape my account?

No. Nothing connects to your Instagram. You share reels one at a time from the share sheet — that's the only thing we ever see.

Do I have to log every set?

No. One tap marks a set done; the wheels are there when you want the numbers. Log nothing at all and the program still runs — you just get a thinner progress screen.

Will it force exercises on me?

Never. The engine picks the slot — pattern, order, volume. You pick what fills it, and it won't change your choice behind your back.

Is this fair to creators?

Every exercise credits and links the original reel and creator. We never copy or re-host video — your program sends views back to the coaches you follow.

Which platforms?

Instagram Reels and TikTok at launch, plus screenshots of a workout from anywhere. YouTube Shorts is on the list.

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Stop saving.
Start training.

One program. Your exercises. Every set counted.

✓ free beta · no card · 60-second setup

You're on the list. We'll email you when the beta opens.

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