How to plan your workouts with Claude

Install Tally on your iPhone and make an account. Then open the Tally Workout listing in Claude's connector directory, click Connect to Claude, and sign in with your Tally account.

Use the same sign-in method as in the Tally app: Apple, Google or email. If you use a different one, Claude sees an empty account.

Tell Claude what you want in normal words. Include the facts that Claude cannot see: the days you can train, your equipment, your goal, and any pain or injury. Then ask Claude to put the plan in Tally.

Plan 4 lifting days for next week: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. I train at a commercial gym. My goal is strength on squat, bench press and deadlift. My left shoulder hurts on overhead presses. Put the plan in Tally.

Before it plans, Claude reads your training in Tally: your recent workouts, set by set, and the weight unit you use. If you are new to Tally, tell Claude your current working weights.

Each day shows in Tally as a planned workout, with its exercises, sets, reps and weights. Claude can add a short note to a day, for example why a weight stayed the same. It can also give you a link that opens the day in the app.

At the gym, open Tally and start the day's workout. Log each set with the keypad. The rest timer starts when you log a set. Tally works without signal and syncs when your phone has signal again.

Change the weight, the reps or the exercise when you need to. Claude changes a finished workout only when you ask, and you can undo each change for 7 days. It also does not change a day that you edited in the app, unless you ask it to.

At the end of the week, ask Claude how the week went. Claude reads the workouts you logged, set by set, and sees any planned day that you missed or skipped. It uses your real numbers for the next plan.

How did my week go? Look at what I logged and the days I missed. Then plan next week and add it to Tally.

To check a lift over a longer time, ask about progress. Claude can read up to a year of history for up to 10 exercises, with your top sets and your estimated one-rep max.

Show my bench press and squat progress for the last 3 months. Are they still going up?

• Claude sees only your Tally account, through the connector that you added.
• Claude can read your workouts, your plans and your progress.
• Claude can add, change, move, skip and delete planned days.
• Claude changes a finished workout only when you ask, and you can undo each change for 7 days.
• To disconnect, remove the connector in Claude, or sign out of Tally in the app.

Tally works with any agent that supports MCP, not only Claude. See the steps for Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT and other agents. To keep your training rules in files, read Use Claude Code as your strength coach.