The Forge, sharper • Bodyweight moves now count your bodyweight, assisted exercises no longer count the assist as load, and scores calculate faster. Weight stacks • Set the plates or pin stack your gym actually has, and +/- steps through real weights, on iPhone and Apple Watch. Tap the weight on your watch to switch stacks mid-workout. Apple Watch • Start and log a workout with your iPhone out of reach, and it holds on until your phone is back. • Heart rate between exercises, and rests show what's next. • Press and hold anywhere on the workout screen for the menu. Better together • iPhone and Apple Watch stay in step through sets, supersets and rests. End a rest on either and the other follows. • Plus a long list of logging and sync fixes.

THE FORGE IS OPEN Every session now earns a Forge score: how much hard work it actually accumulated, not how long you stood in the gym. Three hard sets can outscore ten easy ones. VALDA learns your strength from the way you train. THE WATCH, REWRITTEN One tap per set. LOG SET replaces start-and-stop on your lifts, so a set is a single press and the rest timer starts itself. Rest, supersets and left/right sets now stay in step between watch and phone. Log on either one and the other follows — through a superset block, across the rest at the end of a round, and back to the partner exercise for the next one. Timed holds keep their start and finish, because a plank isn't a rep. SESSION COACHING A short brief before each workout, written for what you are actually training that day. Strength gets one voice; conditioning, mobility and skill work get their own. Coming back after time off, or training through a week where you are under-recovered, changes what it says. A DEEPER PROGRAMME LIBRARY Real sessions for far more programmes — day by day, set by set, built from each method's own published sources rather than an approximation of them. And version pinning: once you enrol, the rules you started on stay put. If we correct a programme later, your numbers do not move underneath you. Opt into the fix when you are ready, not mid-block. RECORDS AND EXERCISE DETAIL Search your lifts. See the trend on each and how much you have added. Tap any movement for its recent history, so you know what you did last time before you load the bar. READINESS How ready you are to train, on your phone as well as the web — and wired into what the coaching says, rather than sitting in a corner on its own. CYCLE TRACKING A clearer phase view, and correlations that only appear when there is genuinely enough behind them: three eligible cycles, not a hunch off two data points. Cycle tracking stays free, always. ALSO IN THIS RELEASE A long list of fixes to logging, sync and progression — rest timers that agree across devices, per-side lifts that record both sides, discarded sessions that actually go, and a sync indicator that tells the truth about what is still outstanding. Train hard. Log honestly. The iron keeps score.

A substantial update to VALDA on iPhone and Apple Watch, expanding how you log sessions and giving the watch experience a significant uplift. Flexible workout creation The Train screen has been redesigned around how you actually train. A single tap on Start workout now offers two paths: • Plan — build the session in advance with sets, weights and rest, then execute it. • Do — start lifting immediately and log freely as you go. Either mode lets you add exercises mid-workout, swap one out when the equipment you wanted is busy, and adjust weights at any point. The workout you started follows the structure you chose; nothing locks you out. A complete Apple Watch experience The Apple Watch app has been substantially expanded. Logging from the wrist is now responsive enough to be a primary input, not a secondary one. • Pause, resume and discard workouts directly from the watch — useful for interruptions, equipment changes, or scrapping a session that isn't working. • A plate calculator appears automatically for barbell exercises, showing the exact plates required per side. • Native scroll indicators and a tap-to-scroll chevron make it obvious when there is more content below the visible area. • Add exercises, swap them, or skip them straight from the watch. • Add additional sets to an ad-hoc exercise when you decide to do more than planned. • Improved offline reliability — if the watch temporarily loses contact with your phone, mid-workout actions are queued and retried for up to seven days. Your data reconciles automatically once the connection is restored. • Background heart rate continues to be captured during a workout, even when the watch face is asleep. • Sign-in has been streamlined and now binds reliably on first authentication. • A cleaner idle screen shows today's programme day at a glance, with quick access to the exercise library, recent exercises and active workouts. Programme tracking accuracy Programme progression — the "next day" indicator that appears on both your dashboard and the watch — is now consistently accurate after completing or deleting a workout. Several edge cases that caused the dashboard and watch to disagree have been resolved. Refinements throughout Numerous small improvements across the app: • Primary buttons on the Train screen are now clearly legible in both light and dark mode. • Workout completion no longer leaves stale state on the watch. • Sync conflict notifications can be dismissed when the underlying issue has resolved itself. • Exercise default weights now inherit from previous sets when a programme prescribes a placeholder. • Spacing, typography and contrast have been audited and tightened across most screens. Compatibility VALDA 1.1 requires iOS 17.0 or later and watchOS 10.0 or later. The Apple Watch companion app is included with the iPhone app — pair from your Watch app on the iPhone after installation. If you encounter any issues, please get in touch through the in-app feedback option on the Settings screen. Thank you for using VALDA.