Stop guessing your way to planche.

Yes — beginners are one of the two audiences the app is explicitly built for. When you launch, two questions pick your track and a short setup does the rest. If you're starting from zero, you get Foundations: a 10-week adaptive cycle, 3 short sessions a week, with push, pull, squat, hinge, and core each climbing their own progression ladder. We meet you at wall push-ups and walk you up — no assumed strength, no "30s active hang to qualify".

Especially for you. The Foundations cycle is designed for exactly this case. The push path starts at wall push-ups, then desk push-ups, then knee push-ups, then floor push-ups, all the way up to pike and diamond variants. The system starts you at a step that matches a short set of questions, and only moves you up when your logged sets show you've outgrown the current step, and you always see the next step before it arrives.

Most programs need only your body and a bit of floor space. A pull-up bar helps unlock pull-up, muscle-up, and lever progressions; rings, resistance bands, weight, and parallettes each unlock further tiers. But you don't have to guess — Equipment Mode lets you tell the app exactly what you own across five axes (bar, rings, bands, weighted, parallettes). Sessions then clamp to what you can actually train, and any locked step shows exactly what would unlock it. Train with what you have today; add gear when you're ready.

Most trainees who can already do 8–10 strict pull-ups can work toward their first muscle-up with consistent training, and the app shows about how many sessions away the next step is. ZenMotion's muscle-up program walks you through explosive pull-ups, transition drills, and straight-bar dips — the three pieces that have to come together.

Most fitness apps give you random workouts. ZenMotion gives you Skill Focus Splits — 5-day rotations built around the skill you're chasing. Pick muscle-up, planche, front lever, V-sit, or any of 11 advanced skills, and the whole week rotates skill work, opposite-pattern balance, mobility, legs, and pure skill rehearsal. Every rep is tracked so you see exactly when a variant gets too easy and it's time to graduate.

Yes. Set as Focus lets you pick one skill (back lever, planche, muscle-up, etc.) and the 5-day strength split automatically adapts. The main work on each day stays in the same pattern (push, pull, full body) but swaps for variants that target your focus skill. Same workout duration, biased toward what you actually care about. 11 dedicated skill calibrations — one per skill family, each with 3-4 unique tests measuring strength, mobility, grip, and load separately — recommend a starting tier based on your results, so you skip regressions you've already mastered.

72 achievements spanning six categories: bodyweight progression ladders (Pull-Up 1 → 5 → 10 → 15 → 20, Push-Up 1 → 75, Dips 1 → 50, pistol squats, archer variants), hold milestones (60s plank, 90s dead hang, 30s L-sit, 30s wall handstand, 5s freestanding, plus two more), skill firsts (first muscle-up, tuck planche, tuck/full front and back lever, V-sit, dragon flag, human flag, press to handstand, Hefesto), consistency streaks (1, 10, 25, 50, 100 workouts; 7, 14, 30, 90-day streaks), calibration completions, and 16 elite top-of-ladder unlocks that fire when you crush the top step of a universal family or a picked skill. Each one carries a world-rarity hint and routes you toward the program most likely to unlock it. Unlocks are shareable to Instagram Stories.

Absolutely. Calisthenics is bodyweight training — most of ZenMotion's programs require only floor space. For pulling skills, any pull-up bar (door-frame bar, park bar, monkey bars) works fine.

Yes. Every workout records your reps, sets, and hold times per exercise. The app surfaces personal bests, weekly training streaks, and rep trends across comparable workouts so you can see your strength curve over time.

Most people see steady progress on 3 to 5 sessions a week — enough volume to drive adaptations, enough rest for your central nervous system and connective tissue to recover. Beginners do well with 3 short sessions (Foundations is programmed exactly that way). Intermediate and advanced trainees chasing a specific skill typically run a 5-day split with one built-in mobility or leg day. Training every single day tends to backfire — recovery is where growth happens, and calisthenics is especially demanding on wrists, elbows, and shoulders. ZenMotion lets you set your weekly target when you set up your plan and adjusts recommendations accordingly.

Yes — and ZenMotion builds one in for you automatically. Every fourth week is a deload: your target reps drop by 20% while sets stay the same. That lighter week helps you manage the fatigue built up over the previous three weeks of harder training. Deloads aren't optional maintenance — they're how short-term overreaching turns into long-term adaptation. They matter most in demanding static skill work like planche, front lever, or handstand, where joints and connective tissue take a lot of load.

Gently, and with lower expectations for the first session. ZenMotion handles this automatically — if your last completed workout was 7 or more days ago, the first session back scales targets down by 20% with an "Easing back in" banner on Home. That's not the app being polite: it's the honest version of how detraining works. After even a week off, your strength endurance dips 5–10% while your neural drive stays roughly intact, so you can technically still lift near your max — so the first session back is lighter while your training load builds back up. Softer targets for one session, then normal programming resumes.

When you can crush the top of the current rep range with clean form across all sets — and you've done it more than once. ZenMotion enforces this by never bumping you up on a single lucky session; it needs at least one prior session at the same step with strong performance before it graduates you. In practice: hit 3×12 clean push-ups this week and 3×12 clean push-ups next week? Time to move to diamond, decline, or archer push-ups. This is where most self-programmed calisthenics stalls — trainees either graduate too early (and burn out on a variant they can't do with form) or too late (grinding easy reps that stop driving adaptation). The app recommends when to move on, based on what you actually logged.

Yes — ZenMotion is completely free. Every program, every level, every feature is included at no cost. No subscription, no paywall, no in-app purchases.

ZenMotion is currently iOS-only. Android is on the roadmap.