Feature 08
Train alone less, lift more
Most people who stick with training have one thing in common: they didn't do it alone. Squads give you a small private group (your gym friends, your online lifting circle, the coaching cohort you joined) with its own chat, shared workout feed, and team challenges. It is the place your crew checks in, celebrates PRs, and keeps momentum alive.
Overview
A Squad is the team layer inside Forjex. Create a group, invite the people you train with, and keep its conversation, reactions, challenges, and leaderboards close to the workouts that generate them. It works for gym friends, remote training groups, coaching cohorts, or any crew that wants more structure than a group chat.
The Squad Pulse is a typed activity stream rather than an unstructured wall of noise. Workouts, personal records, check-ins, reactions, and challenge events can appear as distinct activity. Members can compare several training and recovery metrics in their own units, then move into a custom challenge or Squad-versus-Squad battle when they want a shared target.
Private groups with their own chat and feed
Team challenges and group leaderboards
Workout activity visible only to your crew
Group reactions, callouts, and PR celebrations
Async-friendly for crews across time zones
How it works
Squads connect normal training activity to the accountability loop, so members do not have to report the same work again in a separate group.
Set up the Squad, invite members, and establish the private group where its training activity will live.
See typed updates for workouts, records, check-ins, reactions, and challenge moments without flattening every event into the same post.
Choose a metric or create a proof-based challenge, track the standings, and carry the result into the Squad history.
Inside the feature
The social layer stays useful because Squad activity and competition are connected to Forjex workouts, health signals, and proof flows.
Squad Pulse
The Pulse distinguishes workouts, achievements, check-ins, challenge events, and other Squad activity. Members can react and respond without turning every completed set into a manually written update.
That gives the group enough texture to celebrate a personal record, notice a quiet week, or follow a challenge without losing the important event in general chat.
Leaderboards
Squad leaderboards can rank steps, workouts, training volume, active energy, distance, exercise minutes, and readiness. Each value is displayed using the viewer’s saved units where conversion is needed.
Multiple metrics let a mixed group compete without pretending that one lift is the only form of progress.
Challenges
Custom challenges give a Squad a defined goal and time window. Proof-based challenges can use video and AI-assisted judging when the result cannot come directly from a tracked metric.
Members can see the rules and standings in the same place as the activity generated by the challenge.
Team battles
Squad-versus-Squad competition extends the challenge loop beyond one group while keeping rosters, submissions, and results attached to the teams involved.
The everyday Squad still works without a competition running. Chat, Pulse activity, and shared training context remain available between events.
Connected tools
For gyms
Squads, gym-wide challenges, training activity, and leaderboards give members a shared reason to return without replacing the workout tracker.
Questions
The practical details people usually want before adding another fitness app to their routine.
A Squad is a private training group with its own Pulse activity, reactions, chat, leaderboards, custom challenges, and team competition.
Squad leaderboards can use steps, workouts, training volume, active energy, distance, exercise minutes, and readiness.
Yes. A custom challenge can use proof video and AI-assisted judging when the result is not available from a tracked metric.
Yes. Forjex includes a Squad-versus-Squad competition flow as well as challenges that run within one Squad.
Pre-launch
Forjex is launching on iOS first. Join the waitlist and we’ll tell you when it is ready to use.