Four steps. Nothing to mount, nothing to rig, nothing to charge. If the plate is already out of the box you are most of the way there.
Missing something? Tell us and we will ship the part, not a replacement unit. Contact us.
The compartment is on the underside of the plate, and the four AAA cells came in the box.
There is no internal battery and no proprietary charger, so there is nothing to plug in before your first session. A set of alkalines lasts months of normal training. If you train most days, rechargeable AAAs are worth it.
Flat, hard floor, directly under the edge you want to train on.
You stand on the plate and pull, so the load is read through the ground rather than through a rigged line. That means any edge works — a fixed hangboard, a portable block, a door frame, a wooden rail you screwed up yourself. Nothing gets mounted and nothing hangs overhead.
Keep it off carpet and off crash pads. A surface that flexes under the plate adds noise to every reading. The plate is rated to 150 kg total, which is you plus anything you are holding.
Free on iOS and Android, with no subscription and no paywalled tests.
You do not need an account to start. Open it and train; create one later if you want your history to survive a new phone. One install also holds unlimited profiles, so a crew or a gym can share a single plate without mixing up anyone's numbers.
That is the whole pairing procedure. There is no power button and no device list.
The plate wakes under your weight and starts advertising over Bluetooth LE. The app picks it up and connects on its own, usually within a couple of seconds of the Train or Test screen opening.
Do not pair it from your phone's own Bluetooth settings — it is meant to connect from inside the app only. On Android, allow location access when prompted; the operating system requires that permission before any app is allowed to scan for Bluetooth LE devices.
Nothing happening? The plate has to be under load to wake up. Step on before you look.
The app has four tabs along the bottom — Train, Plan, Test and Log. Warm your fingers up properly, then go to Test. Without a baseline the percentage-based workouts have nothing to scale against.
Pick a hold and pull on it for five seconds at your maximum, once with each hand. This is the MVC that every percentage-based workout is scaled from, so it is the one to do first.
The same measurement taken finger by finger. It is how you find the imbalance you have been compensating for without noticing.
A sustained intermittent-hang protocol that separates your maximum strength from what you can hold onto repeatedly. It unlocks the endurance analytics in the app.
Every session lands in Log on its own. Retest the same protocol every few weeks — same hold, same warm-up, same time of day — and the comparison means something.
Battery level, a stale OS-level pairing, and Android location permissions cover almost every case.
Bluetooth troubleshootingRecalibrate from the Devices screen with the plate on bare floor and nothing standing on it.
Ask us about itAbsolute load, a percentage of your max, or a percentage of bodyweight — combined with whatever tempo you are after.
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