A Boostcamp alternative without a program

A program app asks you to sign up for a plan. That is the right thing to want if you are running 5/3/1 or nSuns and you want the weeks laid out for you.

This is the other shape. There are no programs here at all. You come in through a lift, and the page tells you what it does.

Built around the lift, not the plan

There are 158 exercises, 123 with a free weight and 35 bodyweight, and every one has its own page with a looping clip and a written description. Nothing sits above them organising twelve weeks.

So you can arrive wanting one thing. What does a good morning actually work. Is a pull-up worth doing if you already row. What is the difference between a goblet squat and a front squat. You read that page and you leave, and nothing asks you to commit to anything on the way out.

If you already follow a program, that is a perfectly good way to use this: keep the program where it is, and use these pages for what its lifts are doing.

Each page names what drives the lift

Most exercise listings give you the muscles worked as a single list, which mixes the muscle that should be driving the lift with the ones that are only holding you steady. Those are different jobs. A mirror shows you the shape of a lift. It does not show you where the load is going.

Every page here keeps them apart, and the library filters the same way: 14 muscles, 5 kinds of weight, 3 levels, with the muscle filter matching what drives the lift.

Start anywhere in the library, or with a back squat or a plank.

The rest countdown costs nothing

Set it once and leave it. Three beeps as it empties, a buzz at zero, and nothing locks while a lift or a rest is still in front of you.

It is free, along with everything else here, because there is no paid tier for it to sit behind in the first place.

It logs the sets, and keeps them

Log each set against a weight and it shows what you lifted last time you met that exercise. Kilograms step a quarter at a time to 200, pounds half a pound at a time to 441.

Finished sessions gather on a history screen and stay as logged, because the database can take a new one and remove an old one and has no permission to alter one. You can star the lifts you take every time, and leave a note on an exercise, seat 4, pin 7, which stays with the exercise rather than the workout.

The guides name their sources

Eleven written guides cover what comes up across exercises: how long to rest, how many sets, how many reps, whether to train to failure, what progressive overload requires.

Each figure names a paper, an author, a year and an identifier, and a citation with no stored paper behind it stops the build.

Start with how many sets per exercise or rest between sets.

Common questions

Does it have training programs?

No, and it is not going to. There are no multi-week plans, no mesocycles and nothing to follow week by week. You pick a muscle, take the exercises you want out of it, and set your own reps, sets and rest.

Is the rest timer free?

Yes. Set your rest once and it runs, beeping the last 3 seconds and buzzing at zero, with the screen staying on while a lift or a rest is up. It is not a paid feature, because there is no paid tier here at all.

What do you get on each exercise page?

A looping clip and a written description, plus a muscle panel separating the muscle that drives the lift from the ones that only hold you steady. You can filter the library by 14 muscles, 5 kinds of weight and 3 levels.

Can you use it if you already follow a program?

Yes, and that is a sensible way to use it. Keep the program wherever it lives, and use this to look up what a lift in it actually works, or to log the sets against a weight.

Is it free, and do you need an account?

It is free with no paid tier, and you never need an account to read an exercise page. The workout builder works signed out too, keeping sessions on your own device.

About this page

Boostcamp is a separate product made by BPM Health Co. and this site is not connected to it. It is free to download and sells a Pro tier, and its App Store listing does not state a term against any of its prices, so none is quoted here. Its published details were last checked on 28 August 2026, and things change, so check their own listing for anything current.

Boostcamp is a program app and this is not one. If you want a plan laid out over weeks with the weights worked out for you, that is a real thing to want and this site does not do it. Every other page in the comparison lane is held to the same standard.