Ardor, an intelligent personal trainer that predicts your fitness
Hi all, we've spent the last 2 years building Ardor. Ardor designs personal fitness routines built around individuals. Factors equipment, schedule, energy level on a given day, and mix of interests/goals. What makes Ardor special is how it not only predicts what weight and reps you are capable of doing for every exercise, it also makes some wild predictions about your overall fitness. How fast you are? What's your endurance like? It can build workout challenges in the form of a circuit/HIIT and can say things like "based on how you did in your last workout, I think you can do 4…
Ardor, an intelligent personal trainer that predicts your fitness launched on November 1, 2023 with 21 votes, #1,270 of 4,332 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
Ardor is a fitness app that creates personalized workout routines based on individual equipment, schedule, energy levels, and goals. It predicts the weight and reps a user can handle for each exercise, then extends those predictions to estimate overall fitness metrics like speed and endurance. The app generates workout challenges including circuits and high-intensity interval training, automatically adjusting difficulty based on recent performance. It's designed for anyone seeking customized fitness progression across strength, speed, and endurance training.
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In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi all, we've spent the last 2 years building Ardor. Ardor designs personal fitness routines built around individuals. Factors equipment, schedule, energy level on a given day, and mix of interests/goals. What makes Ardor special is how it not only predicts what weight and reps you are capable of doing for every…
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