How to Use Coachigo on Apple Watch

Coachigo has an Apple Watch app. It follows the session running on your iPhone so you can check off sets and run your rest timer without pulling out your phone, and it can also start a session when your iPhone isn’t around.

Install the watch app

You need an Apple Watch on watchOS 10 or later. The watch app ships with the iPhone app: if your watch installs apps automatically, it’s already there. If not, open the Watch app on your iPhone, go to the My Watch tab and install Coachigo from Available Apps.

Then open Coachigo on your iPhone once. The iPhone is what sends your profiles, templates, programs and settings (weight unit, rest) to the watch. Until it does, the watch shows “No session”.

Follow a session started on your iPhone

Start the session on your iPhone as usual. The app opens on the watch by itself when the session starts and at each rest. Scroll through the pages vertically:

Exercises lists your exercises with how many sets are done.
Each exercise has its own page with its sets: tap one to check or uncheck it.
The timer page shows the current rest, with pause, resume and a skip button. The watch taps your wrist when it’s over.

Once you check a set, the watch moves to the timer on its own if a rest starts, then to the next set. Weights and reps are shown, but you change them on the iPhone, add sets there too, and finish the session there.

Start a session from the watch

On the watch, tap Start, pick the profile, then either:

tap Start on the active program card, which shows the next session and your progress;
or open Templates and pick one.

There’s no blank session from the watch. If several of your clients are on programs, check the program name on the card before you tap Start.

With no iPhone in range, the session runs on the watch alone. Sets are built from the template’s targets: check them off, add more with Add set, and start a rest from Start timer (1, 1.5, 2 or 3 minutes). On the last page, tap Finish, then Finish and save. The session waits on the watch (“1 session waiting to sync”) and goes to your iPhone as soon as it’s reachable again.

Fill in weights on your iPhone

You can’t enter weights or reps on the watch. A session logged without your iPhone arrives with 0 weight and the planned reps, so fix them afterward by editing the past session.

iPhone nearby?

Start the session on your iPhone instead: you log weights as you go and the watch follows along.

Heart rate

The heart icon and your BPM show up on the watch when Apple Health is connected on your iPhone and the session’s profile is linked to it. The watch then saves the workout to Health, and the session gets your heart rate and calories.

FAQ

Do circuits work on the watch?

Yes. The watch shows the circuit’s exercises (A1, A2…) and the round number, and uses the same rest times. You build circuits on the iPhone: see supersets and circuits.

Is there a Wear OS app?

No, Coachigo is only available on Apple Watch.