How-to guide
Fitting a Real Workout Into a Busy Day: A Practical Guide
A step-by-step way to choose and fit a 15 to 45 minute session into a working day, whether you train at home, in a gym or outdoors.
Rohan Hegde
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How-to guide
A step-by-step way to choose and fit a 15 to 45 minute session into a working day, whether you train at home, in a gym or outdoors.
Rohan Hegde
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Habits
Before you set goals and reminders for a daily routine, go through these questions about your schedule, energy and motivation, so the habit you pick is one you can actually keep.
Rohan Hegde
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Gym Training
Meera Nair goes through the slips people most often report during Your Body, 8 Weeks, from skipped check-ins to rushed rest days, and what to do instead.
Meera Nair
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Pricing
Run tracking has a free tier and a paid layer. Here is what each covers, what drives the price up, and how to judge whether the extra spend is worth it for you.
Ananya Gowda
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Customer Story
Kavya ran hard five days a week and kept getting stuck. A plan that placed rest days between harder sessions changed how her weeks felt and how her running held up.
Ananya Gowda
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Seasonal advice
The coming months bring cooler mornings across India, and a good window to begin a walk-run plan. Here is how to time your first 5K around festivals, travel and shorter days.
Rohan Hegde
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Training Basics
A plain-words look at the minimum effective dose: the smallest amount of exercise that still moves your fitness forward, and how a short session of 15 to 45 minutes can meet it.
Ananya Gowda
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Habits
Two ways to make exercise stick with Build a Daily Habit: small daily goals with reminders, or a fixed weekly schedule. A comparison, and the one I would pick for most beginners.
Rohan Hegde
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Behind the scenes
A look at how the eight-week gym and bodyweight programme is laid out, from the weekly session plan to the check-ins that tell you whether the work is landing.
Rohan Hegde
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App Questions
The question we hear most is what the app really captures on a run or ride. Here is a plain answer on distance, pace and route, and how to read your week.
Ananya Gowda
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Company news
A look at how the Train Smarter, Not Harder plans place hard sessions, easy days and full rest, and why we think this rhythm suits people running around a busy work week.
Ananya Gowda
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Training Methods
Ananya Gowda explains the working methods behind the beginner 5K plan: walk-run intervals, gradual weekly progression, planned rest days and the reviews each session goes through before release.
Ananya Gowda
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Training Checklist
Short sessions of 15 to 45 minutes can fit almost any schedule. Go through these questions first, so the workouts you choose are ones you will actually keep doing.
Ananya Gowda
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Habits
Most people who start a daily exercise habit stall within a few weeks. Here are the common mistakes behind that, and simple ways to avoid each one.
Ananya Gowda
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Pricing
A plain look at what you pay for the eight-week gym and bodyweight programme, which parts of the price you control, and where the real costs of training sit.
Ananya Gowda
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Customer story
A short story about Divya, a first-time runner in Mysuru, and how looking back at her weekly distance, pace and route helped her keep going when motivation dipped.
Rohan Hegde
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Seasonal Training
As the festive season and cooler mornings arrive, here is how to plan hard sessions and rest days so your fitness keeps building through the coming months.
Ananya Gowda
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Running Basics
Rohan explains the terms behind a beginner 5K plan, from walk-run intervals and easy effort to rest days and progression, so every line of your schedule makes sense.
Rohan Hegde
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Workouts
Short sessions of 15 to 45 minutes work in a living room or a gym. I compare the two settings on time, equipment and consistency, and say which one I suggest for most people.
Meera Nair
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Behind the scenes
A look behind the scenes at how Rohan Hegde and the team design daily goals and reminders in the app, from the first sketch to the phone in your pocket.
Rohan Hegde
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