JEFIT Alternative
A library of routines.
Or a coach that writes one for you.
The JEFIT alternative for lifters who want a coach, not a routine library. JEFIT gives you thousands of user-shared routines. Pelaris generates a named-methodology program for your body, your experience, and your goals. Free tracking either way.
Programme & Log Audit · Schoenfeld Volume Landmarks
Interactive Split Analyser & 1RM Calculator
Check your weekly working sets against exercise science landmarks and compute your 1RM.
50 sets
Schoenfeld Target: 10-20/muscle
1.5 : 1
Target symmetry: 1.0 : 1
1.5 : 1
Posterior chain balance
- • Push-to-Pull ratio is 1.5:1. Add 6 weekly upper-back/row sets to balance shoulder mechanics.
- • Quad-to-Posterior ratio is 1.5:1. Add 3 to 4 hinge/hamstring sets (RDLs or Nordic curls).
- • One cardio session or fewer a week is unlikely to reach the WHO 150 to 300 minutes of moderate activity. If you can, add one or two easy Zone 2 sessions, ideally 6 hours away from lifting.
General fitness and training estimates only. Not medical advice.
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About these numbers: Formula, guard-rails & 3 peer-reviewed citations ▾
Target Hypertrophy Band = 10–20 Hard Sets/Muscle/Week · Optimal Push:Pull ≈ 1.0 : 1.0
All CSV parsing and volume calculations run 100% locally in your browser. Warm-up sets (RPE < 6 or > 4 RIR) should not be counted toward your 10 to 20 weekly working sets.
- • More quality sets generally means more muscle, and this meta-analysis is why your weekly volume grows deliberately rather than all at once. [Source]
- • How your loads, sets and rest periods step up across a training block follows the American College of Sports Medicine's progression model for healthy adults. [Source]
- • The weekly movement target your plan aims at, 150 to 300 minutes of moderate activity plus regular strength work, comes straight from the WHO's global guidelines. [Source]
General fitness and training estimates only, labelled EST. Not medical advice or a clinical diagnosis.
Leave this at 0 RIR and the number is plain Epley on the reps you completed, the same as the Pelaris app shows for the same set. If you stopped short of failure, choose the reps you had left and they are added to the set.
116.7 kg
Epley · 5 effective reps
94.5 kg
Strength-Hypertrophy
87.5 kg
Hypertrophy Working Load
| Reps | % 1RM | 0 RIR Max | Target @ 2 RIR | Training Zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1RM | 100% | 116.5 kg | 106 kg | Max Strength |
| 2RM | 94% | 109.5 kg | 103 kg | Max Strength |
| 3RM | 91% | 106 kg | 100 kg | Max Strength |
| 5RM | 86% | 100 kg | 94.5 kg | Strength-Hypertrophy |
| 6RM | 83% | 97 kg | 92 kg | Hypertrophy |
| 8RM | 79% | 92 kg | 87.5 kg | Hypertrophy |
| 10RM | 75% | 87.5 kg | 83.5 kg | Hypertrophy |
| 12RM | 71% | 83.5 kg | 79.5 kg | Hypertrophy |
| 15RM | 67% | 78 kg | 74.5 kg | Muscular Endurance |
General fitness and training estimates only. Not medical advice.
The link carries the numbers you entered in the part of the address after the #, which is never sent to a server. Share it only with people you are happy to show those numbers to.
About these numbers: Formula, guard-rails & 3 peer-reviewed citations ▾
1RM = Weight × (1 + Reps ÷ 30) · optional: add Reps in Reserve to Reps
Reynolds, Gordon and Robergs (2006) concluded that a one-rep max can be estimated well from multiple-repetition sets, and advised staying at or under about ten repetitions. Past that, the result is a rough guide because the set measures endurance and discomfort tolerance as much as maximal strength.
- • Your projected 1RM is read off a hard multi-rep set, and this study is the evidence that a max can be estimated well without you ever having to test one. [Source]
- • Reps in reserve is how we ask you to rate a set, a scale built so your effort on the day sets the load rather than a fixed number on paper. [Source]
- • How your loads, sets and rest periods step up across a training block follows the American College of Sports Medicine's progression model for healthy adults. [Source]
General fitness and training estimates only, labelled EST. Not medical advice or a clinical diagnosis.
Routines vs programming
JEFIT's strength is breadth. Thousands of user-shared routines, a huge exercise library, an active community. If you know what you want and just need somewhere to log it with form cues handy, JEFIT is strong.
The gap is direction. A shared routine is someone else's plan pulled out of their training context. It might be great for them, irrelevant for you. There is no programming intelligence that reads your history and says "this rep scheme is too much for your current work capacity, start at 70%". You pick a routine and you grind.
Pelaris asks the questions JEFIT does not: what methodology fits this athlete, what volume is tolerable, how do RPE trends bend the next week, what happens when a match day lands mid-week. The tracker is the same. The coach is what changes.
Pelaris vs JEFIT
Pricing and tier details reflect each app's published information at time of writing.
| Feature | Pelaris | JEFIT |
|---|---|---|
| Workout logging | Always free | Free tier has limits |
| Exercise library Named exercises with form cues. | Curated, methodology-linked | Very large library |
| AI program generation | ||
| Adapts to RPE + fatigue | ||
| Multi-sport support | ||
| Methodology depth 5/3/1, Conjugate, DUP, Block, GZCL, PPL, etc. | Named methodologies, explained | Templates only |
| Cardio / endurance programming | Run, swim, cycle periodised | |
| Community / social | Not our focus | Large community feature set |
| Native apps + everywhere it runs | iOS, Android, web, and inside ChatGPT | iOS, Android, web |
| Pricing | Free tracking. Paid coaching. | Free + ~$7/mo Elite |
Named methodology, written for you
Not a template copied from someone else. Your program cites a methodology, explains the phases, and shows you what comes next.
Bring your history
Your JEFIT history comes with you
Export your workouts from JEFIT as a CSV, then bring the file into Pelaris under Profile, Data. Pelaris reads the columns for you and shows you what it found, the sessions and the dates they cover, before anything is saved. Your sets, reps, weights, notes and dates come across, and your PRs are rebuilt from those sets with the dates you actually set them. Importing is free.
You pick the file in the Pelaris app on your iPhone or Android phone, or in the web app in any browser, and your history then appears everywhere straight away.
Train with a watch as well? Your Garmin, COROS, Suunto, Wahoo and Polar sessions come across too, as FIT files, each on its real date. Import FIT files into Pelaris.