Train Like You Compete.

Built For The Mat.
Not The Mirror.

Bodybuilding splits don't know what a live round costs you. Strength, conditioning, nutrition and your training journal — one system that reads your actual mat time and daily readiness and adjusts itself. Built by grapplers, for grapplers.

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Replaces your nutrition app, your training app and your lifting journal · Founder pricing for beta athletes · No card required

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Backed by the literature, not a hunch

RPE autoregulation (Helms / Zourdos)
Acute:chronic workload (Gabbett)
Session-RPE (Foster)
Epley e1RM
NSCA retest intervals

What it does

A personal trainer that runs on your data, not a template

Every recommendation traces back to something you logged, scored by methods from the strength and conditioning literature — NSCA, NASM and peer-reviewed research — not by a coach's hunch or a generic AI guess.

It knows what you did on the mat

Log mat minutes and intensity and the weight room adjusts. Heavy wrestling week? Your bar work backs off before your joints pay for it. No other strength app asks the question.

Nutrition that moves with training

Calorie and macro targets recalculated from your actual load, with an energy-availability safety floor built on sports-science standards. Weight cuts capped at rates a physician would recognise.

A journal that is part of the system

Sets, reps, RPE, body weight, food, soreness, sleep. Not a diary you fill in and forget — it is the input that drives tomorrow.

Programming, not a workout generator

Six pillars and a full year with no repeated week. Periodized blocks for wrestling and BJJ, including a dedicated female wrestler track, tapering to your competition date.

It trains around injuries

Log one and the program reroutes — joint-sparing swaps, load caps, and hard blocks on anything that would make it worse. Nothing to reprogram by hand.

Your coach can actually see you

Coach’s Corner gives your coach a consent-first read on readiness, volume and recovery across the room. You accept the invite, and you can revoke it.

In beta

Wearable sync

Apple Watch, WHOOP, Oura and Garmin feeding HRV, resting heart rate and sleep straight into your readiness score. Testing now with beta athletes.

Inside the app

Open it, and it already knows what today should be

▸Daily readiness check-in scores sleep, soreness, stress and mat load
▸Every prescribed lift resolves to real pounds off your working max
▸Short and long variants of every session for the days you are short on time
▸The Coach reads your week and tells you what to cut before you break

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MS MATSTRENGTH Grappling Performance

Good morning, Robert

Forge · Week 5 of 8 · Explosive Takedowns

83 Readiness: Solid Sleep 7.5 h · Soreness low CHECKED IN

Today’s session

FORGE SHORTLONG

Dynamic Effort Lower

Est. 55 min · RPE target 8

Warm-Up — Hip Mobility 90/90 switches, hip CARs, band pass-throughs
Main — Speed Deadlift 8×2 @ 60% 1RM, max bar speed
Main — Jump Shrugs 5×3 @ bodyweight + light, explosive
Accessory — Posterior Chain Glute bridges, back extensions, 3×12
Accessory — Core Anti-Rotation Pallof press, 3×10 ea. side

START SESSION

Complementary cardio

Steady State — Zone 2 35 min · Bike or row · Recovery day

TodayProgramsCardioProgressProfile

MS Program Library Choose your path

FoundationForgeMat Cond.

Explosive Takedowns 8 WK

Max Effort + Dynamic Effort split with Olympic-lift derivatives to convert strength into takedown speed.

IntermediateBarbell + Plates4 days/wk

Scramble Speed 10 WK

Plyometric-forward block for scrambles and transitions — jump variations, med ball throws, reactive drills.

IntermediateBarbell + Plyo box4 days/wk

Guard Power Base 12 WK

Hip and leg power emphasis for sweeps and guard retention, built on conjugate-style loading.

IntermediateFull gym4 days/wk

Or follow a flow

12-Week Competition Prep FLOW

Foundation → Forge → Mat Conditioning, auto-sequenced toward your competition date.

TodayProgramsCardioProgressProfile

One system

Four apps that don't talk to each other,
or one that does

The problem was never that these tools don't exist. It's that your nutrition app has no idea you just did six live rounds, and your training app has no idea you're four pounds over weight class. MatStrength is one system where every input changes every output.

The usual stack

Nutrition tracker Macros, food log, barcode scanning
$10–20/mo
Training app Programmed strength work
$13–35/mo
Lifting journal Sets, reps, RPE, personal records
$5–10/mo
Coaching platform Somewhere your coach can actually see you
$10–25/mo

Four subscriptions, four logins $38–90/mo

MatStrength Pro

Nutrition + macrosTargets move with your training load
Included
Periodized programmingSix pillars, a year with no repeats
Included
Journal + full loggingSets, RPE, body weight, notes
Included
Coach accessConsent-first, revoke any time
Included
AutoregulationThe part no stack of apps can do
Only here

One plan, one login from $34.99/mo

Pro is $34.99/mo. Competitor Athlete adds the performance assessment at $36.99/mo, and coaches pay one plan that covers their whole room — see pricing. Ranges are typical published consumer pricing as of August 2026 and will vary. The point isn't the money — it's that four apps can't autoregulate, because none of them can see the other three.

Where we actually win

Eight rows. Six of them nobody else fills.

We went through twelve strength, team and nutrition platforms in August 2026 and checked feature by feature. This is what came back — including the row where we're not alone, because a comparison that flatters itself isn't worth reading.

Capability	MatStrength	Training apps	Team platforms	Nutrition apps
Mat time and lifting in one load model Your weekly load is the sum of both. Most tools only ever see the weight room.	Yes	No	Paid add-on	No
Program reroutes around a logged injury Joint-sparing swaps and hard blocks, automatically. We found no platform that does this.	Yes	No	No	No
Energy-availability safety floor Calories cannot be driven below a floor derived from lean mass. Nutrition apps will happily let you.	Yes	No	No	No
Weight-cut rate guardrails Capped at a rate a physician would recognise, with a hard stop and a warning past it.	Yes	No	No	No
Taper that targets your competition date Fight camp mode works backwards from the date on your calendar.	Yes	Partial	No	No
Dedicated female wrestler programming ACL-prevention knee armour, extra pull volume, neck work. A real hole in this market.	Yes	No	No	No
Nutrition that moves with training load Targets recalculate from what you actually did, not from a form you filled in once.	Yes	No	Partial	Partial
Coach sees readiness, volume and injuries Consent-first. Team platforms do this well — it is the one row where we are not alone.	Yes	No	Yes	No

Assessed August 2026 across twelve platforms spanning individual training apps, coach and team software, and nutrition trackers. Categories rather than brand names — features move, and we would rather this page stayed true than stayed clever.

Competitor Athlete

Most apps tell you that you improved.
This one proves it.

Four benchmark tests, scored against competitive standards for your sex, age and weight class. You get one number, your three strongest qualities, and the three costing you matches. Then you do it again in 90 days — and either the number moved or the training did not work.

Linear speed

40-yard sprint

How fast you close distance — and how fast you close it in the third round.

Lateral agility

5-10-5 shuttle

Change of direction. The scramble quality that decides who ends up on top.

Horizontal power

Standing broad jump

Hip drive off the floor. It shows up in every shot and every sweep.

Relative strength

Front squat

Strength against your own body weight, which is the only kind that matters in a weight class.

What a result looks like

104% Meets / Exceeds Competitive Benchmark

Front squat1.40× body weight104%
40-yard sprint5.00 s105%
Broad jump7′3″94%
5-10-5 shuttle5.20 s92%

Primary development need: lateral agility and horizontal power. Your strength is not the problem — moving it sideways is.

Scored against a standard, not a vibe

Advanced115%+
Meets benchmark100–114%
Approaching90–99%
Developing80–89%
Development prioritybelow 80%

High-school and adult standards are kept separate, and benchmarks adjust for age band and weight class — nobody is measured against the wrong population.

Who gets it

Included with every Coach plan and for every athlete on a coach’s roster. Individual athletes get it on Competitor Athlete — $36.99/mo.

See Competitor Athlete

A performance-development tool. Not a medical clearance, an injury-risk prediction, or an eligibility determination.

Where this is going

Built in the open

You should know what exists today and what doesn't. Everything in the first column is live right now — the rest is dated honestly.

Shipping now

Six training pillars, a year with no repeated week
Autoregulated loads from your working maxes and daily readiness
Mat load, ACWR and the weekly read from The Coach
Nutrition, macros and the energy-availability floor
Injury rerouting and fight camp mode
Coach’s Corner — consent-first coach visibility

In beta testing

Wearable sync — Apple Watch, WHOOP, Oura and Garmin
Objective recovery: HRV, resting heart rate and sleep feeding your readiness score
Morning weigh-in trend feeding the weight-cut engine

Beta athletes get these first. Your subjective check-in already works — this adds a second, objective opinion alongside it.

MatStrength 2.0

Live lifting video with on-device movement analysis
Joint angles, bar path and side-to-side asymmetry measured, then explained
Form review your coach can see and comment on

Deliberately not rushed. Software that tells an athlete their form is safe is making a serious claim, so the measurement layer gets built and validated before anything is interpreted.

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