Metcons, barbells & benchmarks — for the home gym

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The programming

Walk in with your mind off.

AutoBox takes care of all the thinking for you. Just show up, flick on the lights, and start working.

We’ll handle all the programming: the sessions are planned, written, and waiting — warm-up to cooldown, at your level, in your numbers.

Sample week · Daily trackSolar System” cycle · Test · Wk 1/6

This is a real week, exactly as it lands in the app. Open any day, flip the levels — and type your 1RM to watch the plate math.

First Light

Monday · 74 min
Coach’s notes

This is the cornerstone. Every percentage you'll chase for the next five weeks gets born right here, so the job today is one honest back squat single and one honest strict press triple, nothing else. That's One True Max in practice. Nothing downstream works without today's numbers on file.

Warm-up

Warm-up

12 min · raise → prep → primer

Raise (3 min): easy bike, building the last minute — blood in the legs, not fatigue.

Prep (5 min): empty bar. 8 good mornings, 8 pause goblet squats, 5 tempo back squats (3 seconds down, stand fast). 30 seconds of ankle rocks each side.

Primer (4 min): load your opening 55% set and hit those 5 reps at real speed. Dial in your rack height and safety pins now — once you're chasing the single you don't want to be fussing with the rig.

Strength

Strict press

Build to a top triple
Score · LoadRPE 8/10

Goal Three unbroken reps that all look like the first one — strict, no leg drive, no back bend to sneak the last rep up.

5 × 60%95 lb25 a siderest 2:00
3 × 75%115 lb35 a siderest 2:00
3 × 85%130 lb35 + 5 + 2.5 a siderest 3:00
3 × 90%140 lb45 + 2.5 a side

Plate math off a 45 lb bar. In the app your logged 1RM fills this in by itself — you just load the bar.

Coach’s tip Squeeze your glutes and pull your ribs down before you press so nothing leaks into a lean-back. Finish with your head pushing through, bar stacked over mid-foot.

Accessory

Accessory

RPE 6/10

Bent-over DB rows — 3×10 each side, moderate and controlled.

Hollow hold — 3×30 seconds, ribs pulled down.

Cooldown

Cooldown

Couch stretch, 90s each side — the quads took the squat volume.

Doorway pec stretch, 45s each side, to open the shoulders back up after the press.

Supine spine twist, 45s each side, easy and slow.

Short on time?

Cut the accessory first, then trim the press warm-up to two ramp sets. The number is the whole point of today. The warm-up stays put no matter what.

One week from the Daily track. Minimal and Barbell Strength write the same days for their own gear.

  • Real training cycles. Test, build, overload, retest, deload. Hard days are spaced, easy days stay easy, and progress gets measured — not assumed.
  • Every day is a complete session. Warm-up, skill, strength, metcon, accessories, cooldown — with the plan for the hour and the call on what to cut when you’re short on time.
  • Four levels, every workout. Level 1, Level 2, RX, Competitor. Each written out as its own full session — not the RX day with weight stripped off.
  • Your gear, your numbers. The week is written for the equipment you actually own. Percent work arrives as weight on the bar, figured from your own lifts — plate math done before you walk in.

The week you just read is week 1 of 6. Its benchmarks come back in week 5 — that’s how you know the cycle worked.

Already have programming? Paste it in — AutoBox structures it and tracks it like its own.*

*Anything you can type or paste.

The method

You bring the brawn. We’ll bring the brains.

Built the way good training has always been built: science-based, constantly varied functional work for conditioning, classic barbell periodization for strength. Waves. Training maxes. Test weeks that show your progress. Your benchmark times will speak for themselves.

Daily

Full gym

The whole box, in one track: strength work, metcons, skill practice, and accessories. Every week planned as one piece.

Minimal

Dumbbells · kettlebell · jump rope

The same day’s training, written for the gear in the corner of the room. Same stimulus, less iron.

Barbell Strength

Squat · press · hinge

Four lifting days a week on wave progression. Every top set leaves you a number to beat, and test weeks make it official.

All three in every membership — one record across all of it.

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Rep Radar™

Never lose track again.

Prop your iPhone against a wall and hit start. Rep Radar counts — squats, burpees, pull-ups, deadlifts, kettlebell swings, double-unders, twenty-plus movements, from across the room. The count is on the screen & on your watch. Your head stays in the work.

  • Hands free, head clear. No clicker, no tally in your head, no losing the count at rep forty.
  • On-device, always. Rep Radar runs entirely on your iPhone.
REP 47On-device · nothing uploaded

Rep Radar runs on your iPhone. Only the count survives.

The record

Every lift, on the books.

The bar goes down and the PR is on the books. No notebook, no typing it in later. Your full history stays with you — and it works: percent days show up with your weights already figured.

A plan with a memory.

  • PRs recorded automatically, across every movement you train.
  • Full lift history — every set, every load, every date.
  • Your 1RMs set tomorrow’s weights. When a max moves, the plan moves with it.

Your numbers set tomorrow’s bar.

The watch

The workout on your wrist.

Your phone is across the room, counting. The watch keeps you briefed: live heart rate, your count, what’s next. When the day says run, it tracks the run — pace and distance land in your history with the rest of the workout.

  • Live heart rate — from your wrist to the workout screen, and into your history.
  • At-a-glance cues. The movement you’re on, the count so far, what’s coming next.

Glance = count + what’s next · Wrist = HR · Runs tracked

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Membership

One price. Everything in it.

The going rate for somebody else doing the thinking:

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AutoBox for iPhone

The programming, the camera, the watch, and the record — one membership, in your pocket.

$18.99/month

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  • Daily programming — all three tracks, four levels, real training cycles
  • Rep Radar — hands-free rep counting, entirely on your iPhone
  • Apple Watch — live heart rate, at-a-glance cues, run tracking
  • PRs, full lift history, and percent work set from your numbers
  • Paste your own programming — structured and tracked
  • No tiers. No add-ons. Everything included.
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Questions

Before you tap download.

Is this CrossFit?

AutoBox is an independent product — no affiliation with CrossFit, LLC — but it’s built for athletes who came up in that world: constantly varied functional training, barbell strength, benchmarks you know by name, and every workout at four levels. If you left a box, this will feel like home.

Do I need CrossFit experience?

No. Every workout ships at four levels — Level 1, Level 2, RX, and Competitor — each written out as its own complete session, not a percentage knob. Level 1 assumes you’re building from scratch: same workout, real scaling, no jargon wall. If your gear is a pair of dumbbells, the Minimal track was written for you.

What equipment do I need?

Whatever you own — the programming is built around your gear, whether that’s a full rack or one pair of dumbbells. Rep Radar needs nothing but the phone already in your pocket.

How accurate is Rep Radar?

It holds a standard: full reps count, half reps don’t. If it ever misreads one, just keep going — it’ll catch up.

Where does camera footage go?

Your full video stays on your iPhone. Rep Radar runs on-device. If you choose to create an AI highlight, selected frames and a workout summary are sent to our AI provider; the full recording is not uploaded.

Do I need an Apple Watch?

No — your iPhone is the whole experience. Pair a watch if you have one and you also get live heart rate on the workout screen, at-a-glance cues, and run tracking.

What if my garage Wi-Fi is terrible?

Train anyway. The workout runs entirely on your phone — the clock, the counting, Rep Radar — none of it needs a connection. Score the workout, and your record catches up when you’re back online.

Can I use my own programming?

Yes. Paste it in — your coach’s text, a notes-app scribble, last year’s Open workout — and AutoBox structures it so it runs, scores, and records like everything else.

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