A serious training app with an AI trainer that programs real barbell and dumbbell work, tracks every set and adjusts as you get stronger. It runs on whatever you have access to: home, gym, hotel room, whatever you've got. Want a human? A real certified trainer can personalize it.
Tell it your goal, your training level and the equipment you have. It writes a real plan built on certified training methodology, then keeps rebuilding it off the sets you log. If you want a human involved, a real certified trainer can personalize the whole thing.
Twelve months of training in 6-week blocks. Compound lifts first, progressive overload, deloads and re-tests between blocks. Barbell, dumbbell, machines, cables, whatever you train with.
No more notebooks. Log every set right on the device you already carry. Easy to do, easy to track. Volume, PRs and progress charts update as you go, and the next block is built off what you actually lifted.
Photograph your plate or a nutrition label and the macros fill in. Targets auto-tune when the scale stalls, so nutrition stops being guesswork.
Run it fully AI, or have a real certified trainer review and personalize your plan. Same app, more human in your corner.
Your goals, your experience, where you train (gym, home, or both) and the equipment you have.
Your AI trainer builds a real plan around all of it, or upgrade to have a real certified trainer personalize it for you.
No more notebooks. Log every set right on your phone. The plan adjusts as you get stronger and changes your workouts every 6 weeks so you never plateau.
The AI trainer is your base plan. From there, your program can be reviewed and personalized by Paul, the founder, a certified personal trainer and certified nutrition coach. He tunes the program to your goals and the equipment you actually train with, then keeps adjusting it as you progress. Weekly check-ins and direct messaging with Paul, starting at $149/mo.
Paid upgrade. Working with a real personal trainer is not included in the free plan or the 14-day free trial.
Two paid tiers: $149/mo, or $249/mo with a monthly 1-on-1 video call.
Full AI programming, workout logging, macro photo logging, weigh-ins and progress tracking.
One plan, a profile for every member, shared cookbook, grocery list, calendar and messages.
I'm Paul, and I built Kept Showing Up for the guy I used to be. I was an athlete through my teens and twenties. Then my thirties got busy, I got comfortable, and a little more of it slipped away every year. I'm 50 now, and I got it back. Not with a fad and not with someone standing over me, but with a real plan I actually showed up for. That's what this is: a certified training method in your pocket that builds your workouts and your nutrition around you and adjusts as you get stronger. Home, gym, hotel room, whatever you've got. And if you want a real person in your corner, a certified trainer can step in. You don't have to figure it out alone. You just have to keep showing up.
— Paul
I grew up playing sports. Baseball, track, wrestling, weight training in school. But my family was never fit or healthy, and I wanted to change that for my wife and my kids.
My doctor's answer was to put me on one of the weight-loss shots, the kind they give for diabetes and weight loss that everyone is pushing right now. It did not take the weight off. What it took was my eyesight. I lost most of my vision, and not a pound with it.
That could have ended me. Instead it woke me up. I decided to get healthy on my own, for my family, and to finally learn the part I had been getting wrong: nutrition. Every time I thought I was eating healthy, I was not even close. Once I fixed that, everything changed.
I am still at it, working on myself and getting better every day. Here is the truth: it is easier than you think. Give it 30 days on a real plan and it starts to click. I built Kept Showing Up to be that plan and that trainer, for the gym or wherever you train, so you do not have to figure it out alone like I did.
I am a certified nutrition coach and a certified trainer. My family is why I started, and I am still showing up.
— Paul, founder of Kept Showing Up
Questions? Email me at paul@keptshowingup.com
14 days of the full app. No card required.
Kept Showing Up programs real strength training. Tell it your goal, your level and the equipment you have access to, from a full commercial gym to a rack in the garage, and it builds a 12-month plan in 6-week blocks with progressive overload, deloads and re-tests. Every set you log feeds the next block. If you want a person in the loop, a real certified trainer can personalize your plan.
Log sets, reps and weight in seconds. Photograph a meal or a nutrition label and the macros fill in. The cookbook calculates macros from your ingredients and sends the groceries straight to your list. Weigh-ins, tape measurements, progress photos and body-composition charts track the trend.