Arena FAQ

Enable Social mode and complete 3 workouts on 3 different days. Once you've hit that threshold you're automatically enrolled when you log your first qualifying workout of the season. There's no additional sign-up or group to join.

The Arena scores you against your own history, so it needs a baseline to work from. Three workouts on different days gives the scoring system enough data to calculate meaningful intensity and consistency scores. It also keeps the leaderboards accurate by ensuring every participant is an active trainer. You can still use challenges and see your own cohort stats while working toward the threshold.

No. The Arena is included with Social mode. Everything - scoring, standings, Wrapped, and badges - is free.

You'll be enrolled from your first qualifying workout onwards. Your Consistency Rating and qualification eligibility are calculated based on the weeks available to you from your enrolment date, not the full season, so you're not penalised for joining late.

A workout needs to be at least 25 minutes long, include at least 2 different exercises with completed sets, and not be backdated by more than 48 hours. The system won't score junk workouts - you need to have actually trained.

Your scores are saved and your place is held. You just stop earning AP while Social mode is off. You can re-enable at any time and pick up where you left off. You won't be penalised for the gap - the comeback bonus covers your first week back if you were away for 7 or more days.

The Arena runs January to December with three scored seasons, two short breaks, a November finale for top qualifiers, and a December celebration. The seasons are: The Pursuit (Jan-Mar), Momentum (May-Jul), and Velocity (Sep-Oct). April and August are break periods with no competitive scoring.

There's no competitive scoring during April and August. Instead, there are daily micro-challenges and a community goal. The August break also unlocks mid-year Wrapped and is a good time to review your training programme before Velocity's intensity focus begins.

Yes - each season has a different focus. The Pursuit rewards consistency (just showing up). Momentum uses the same base scoring but adds an escalating multiplier that gets bigger each month. Velocity adds an intensity bonus on top of the base, rewarding how hard you train - not just how often.

AP is the scoring currency. You earn AP for each qualifying workout based on how many different days you trained that week. Spreading workouts across different days earns more than training multiple times on the same day.

3 workouts per week. It's the same for everyone - no configuration. It's achievable for casual trainers and still meaningful for serious ones.

Yes, up to a point. Training on 4 or 5 different days earns progressively more AP. Training on a 6th unique day earns a small acknowledgment bonus. Workouts on a 7th day and beyond earn nothing - the system deliberately caps here because rest matters.

You score 0 AP for that week. Nothing is lost from previous weeks. If you miss 7 or more consecutive days, your first week back automatically gets a 1.5x comeback bonus - roughly recovering what a normal target week would have earned. This is capped at one use per season so it can't be gamed.

It's added on top of your regular AP based on your average workout intensity that week. Intensity is self-referenced - it compares your performance to your own history, not to other users. A beginner pushing hard scores the same as an advanced lifter pushing hard. There are three tiers: solid effort (+7 AP), strong effort (+13 AP), and peak effort (+18 AP).

Yes - the system recalculates your weekly score when a workout is deleted. The one exception is a comeback bonus: if a workout triggered your comeback bonus for the season and you later delete it, the bonus isn't revoked. This prevents a loophole where someone claims the bonus then deletes the workout to reclaim it.

No. Holiday mode has no effect on the Arena. If you don't train, you simply don't score that week. The comeback bonus handles your return automatically.

CR is a second measure alongside AP. It shows what percentage of available weeks you hit the 3-workout target. A 3-day trainer who never misses a week has 100% CR. A 5-day trainer who misses several weeks has a lower CR. It's a way to measure reliability, not just volume.

By default the leaderboard ranks by AP. You can toggle the standings to sort by CR instead. Both views are available in the Arena Hub.

Yes. All-Star qualification is based entirely on Consistency Rating, not AP. The top 15% by CR (excluding AES qualifiers) earn All-Star status. This means consistent 3-day trainers earn recognition through reliability, regardless of raw volume.

Each day during a break, everyone gets the same bodyweight challenge - things like "50 push-ups" or "2-minute plank hold". They're on the honour system. Completing them builds a personal streak and contributes to a community goal, but they don't count toward your AP or season standings.

Each break has a collective target - for example, "Can the Arena community complete 10,000 micro-challenges this April?" Progress is shown as a bar on your Arena card. Everyone who participates earns the same tier badge (bronze, silver, or gold) based on how far the community gets. It resets fresh each break.

No. The April and August breaks are independent. A streak earned in April resets when Momentum begins. August starts fresh at zero regardless of April's streak. Each break is its own mini-experience.

After Velocity ends on October 31st, your combined AP across all three seasons is calculated. You need to have trained in at least 50% of the weeks available to you to be eligible. The top 10% of eligible participants qualify for The Axis Echo Series. The top 15% by Consistency Rating (excluding AES qualifiers) qualify as All-Stars. Everyone else who met the eligibility threshold earns the Arena Finisher badge.

Only the seasons that ran while you were enrolled count toward your combined AP and eligibility. The 50% threshold is calculated against your available weeks, not the full year's weeks.

Qualification is announced on October 31st after the final Velocity scores are processed. You'll receive a push notification and an in-app celebration if you qualify.

Each user gets exactly one tier - the highest they qualify for. AES is awarded first (top 10% by AP), then All-Star is awarded to the top 15% by CR from the remaining eligible participants. If you qualify for AES, you compete in the AES field, not All-Star.

Only the top 10% qualifiers from the season. All other Arena participants can follow the standings and spectate - the standings are publicly visible to everyone.

Same as Velocity - compound workout base plus an intensity bonus. Scores are cumulative across 4 weekly rounds. Weekly scores are hidden until Sunday at 20:00 UTC when they're revealed for everyone at once, creating a weekly match-day moment.

You score 0 for that week and drop in the standings. You're not removed - it's cumulative over 4 weeks and everyone stays on the leaderboard. One bad week is survivable.

Yes. The standings are visible to all Arena participants. If anyone in your Training Squad qualified, they'll be highlighted in the standings for you - their activity and results appear front and centre.

A shareable year-in-review experience. It covers your training stats, streaks, highlights, and assigns you a training archetype based on how you trained all year. Every card can be shared directly from the app.

Mid-year Wrapped (covering The Pursuit and Momentum) is available from August 15th during the Refresh Window. Annual Wrapped (the full year) is available from December 1st.

Yes, fully free. All cards and sharing are available to every Arena participant.

An archetype is a label assigned based on your overall training patterns - things like "Iron Consistent" (never missed a week), "Comeback Story" (used the comeback bonus and still finished strong), or "Intensity Machine" (consistently high-intensity workouts). Archetypes include a rarity percentage showing how common they are among all participants.

Monthly milestone badges (8 across the three seasons), break badges for streaks and community goals, an Arena Finisher badge, and - if you qualify - an All-Star or Axis Echo Series badge with a gold border on your Arena card. The Axis Echo Series Champion gets an animated gold border and a permanent "Arena Champion [Year]" label.

Each December, the team manually selects one participant per archetype category to receive free Axis Echo merch. Winners are chosen because their training genuinely exemplified that archetype - not by lottery. Each award comes with a public announcement explaining why that person was chosen.

Merch awards are limited to the 8 archetype winners each December. You need to have been actively competing (at least 8 scored weeks) and have your annual Wrapped generated. Winners receive a notification and have 4 weeks to claim.

A number from 0 to 100 that measures how hard you pushed in a session compared to your own recent best. If you trained at 85% of your capability across the session, your score is 85. It doesn't matter what weight you lift or how many reps you do in absolute terms - only how close you got to your own personal bests.

For each exercise, we compare your performance to your best from the last 12 weeks. For weighted exercises (bench press, squats, etc.), we estimate your one-rep max - the heaviest weight you could theoretically lift once - from the weight and reps you actually did. So if you bench 80kg for 10 reps, we estimate your max is around 107kg. We do this for every set and compare the average to your best estimated max from recent sessions. For bodyweight exercises (pull-ups, dips), we compare your reps to your best reps. For timed exercises (planks, wall sits), we compare your time to your best time. Each exercise gets a ratio between 0 and 1, and your session score is the average of those ratios, weighted by how many sets you did per exercise. Multiply by 100 and that's your score.

Because everyone is measured against themselves, not each other. A beginner squatting 40kg at 90% of their max and an advanced lifter squatting 180kg at 90% of their max both score 90. It doesn't reward being strong - it rewards pushing yourself relative to what you're capable of. Two completely different people with completely different training styles can be compared on the same scale.

Nothing breaks. Intensity is scored per exercise, not per programme, so swapping from a push/pull/legs split to an upper/lower split, or changing which exercises you do, doesn't reset or distort your score. Any exercise you've done in the last 12 weeks still has a baseline. New exercises are handled by a muscle group fallback (see below).

You won't be penalised. If you've never done Cable Flyes before but you have history for other chest exercises (like Bench Press or Dumbbell Flyes), we use your average effort ratio across all your chest exercises as a stand-in. This means a new exercise won't drag your score down or inflate it - it uses a reasonable estimate until it builds its own history. If you've never trained that muscle group at all, the exercise is simply excluded from the calculation rather than counting against you. Trying new exercises will never cost you leaderboard points.

Not really. A light session scores low because every exercise is well below your recent best. There's also a partial session gate: if you normally do 9 sets for a muscle group but only do 2 today, that muscle group is excluded entirely so it doesn't drag down your score - but it also doesn't contribute. You can't inflate your score by doing a single easy set of something you're good at.

Your baselines (the personal bests we compare against) use the last 12 weeks of training data. This means they stay current - if you get stronger, your baselines rise with you. If you take a break and come back weaker, your baselines gradually adjust down as old data falls outside the window. It's always a fair reflection of your recent capability, not your all-time peak.

Your first workout won't show an intensity score - there's nothing to compare it to yet. You'll start seeing scores once you repeat exercises or muscle groups you've already trained. If you follow a split (like push/pull/legs), it might take a few sessions before every workout day has a baseline. This is normal - the system is building your profile. Within a week or two of regular training, every session will have a score.

It's excluded from the calculation, not scored as zero. If you've never trained shoulders before and you add overhead press to your session, that exercise is simply left out of the average. Your score is based only on exercises where we have something meaningful to compare against. You won't lose leaderboard points for trying something new, and as soon as you've done it once, it becomes part of your baseline for next time.

Your score is capped at 100 - you can't go above it. If you exceed your 12-week best on an exercise, that ratio is treated as 1.0 (the maximum). Your new performance then becomes part of your baseline going forward, so future sessions are compared against this higher bar. Breaking a PB raises the standard, it doesn't inflate the score.

For the estimated max calculation, sets above 15 reps are treated the same as 15 reps. This is because the estimation formula becomes less reliable at very high rep ranges. So doing 20 reps at 50kg is estimated the same as 15 reps at 50kg. If you regularly train in high-rep ranges (15+), your baseline reflects that and your score still tracks effort accurately - it just doesn't try to extrapolate a one-rep max from a 30-rep set.

During the Velocity season and The Axis Echo Series, your weekly average Intensity Score unlocks bonus Arena Points on top of the base. 85+ (Peak) earns +18 AP per workout that week. 70-84 (Strong) earns +13 AP. 55-69 (Solid) earns +7 AP. Below 55 earns no bonus. Each workout is scored individually, then averaged across the week to determine the tier.

Several layers: workouts must meet strict qualification criteria (duration, exercise variety, realistic set volumes), the scoring engine caps workouts per day and sets per week, a background audit runs weekly comparing intensity scores against independent recalculation, and any user can report a competitor from the standings. The system also auto-flags rule violations for review.

Yes. Tap their name in the standings and use the Report option. Add a description if you have specific details. Reports go to the moderation queue and are reviewed. You won't receive updates on the outcome - this is intentional to prevent report-as-harassment behaviour.

They're disqualified from the current season. Their Arena card shows a suspended state and they're removed from standings. They can appeal once - the team's decision on the appeal is final.