A Letter from the Founder

When I first started training, I was not confident in how I looked. So I naturally compared myself with the people around me—the ones with better physiques, the ones lifting more weight, and the ones running faster. I wanted to improve as quickly as they had.

But once other people become the standard, it becomes easy to ignore the pace your own body can handle.

I copied other people’s loads and training volume and pushed myself harder than I needed to. Wanting to progress faster led to repeated injuries. Every time an injury forced me to stop, I ended up taking an even longer road back.

It was also difficult to know what the right approach was. Training information was scattered everywhere, with conflicting advice and plenty of misinformation. I had to try countless methods, fail, and learn one by one what worked for me and what did not.

We all begin in different places, and our bodies adapt at different rates. When you compare yourself with other people, someone will always be faster or stronger. Chasing them can make you lose sight of the pace your body is ready for today.

The story changes when you compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

Did you lift a little more? Run a little farther? Complete the same workout with a little more ease? Once you start noticing those small changes, you can grow at your own pace instead of borrowing someone else’s.

Pushing too hard may put you ahead for a while. But if the cost is an injury that stops you for weeks or months, you may have to give back all that progress—and sometimes more.

I believe the people who go farthest are not the ones who push the hardest. They are the ones who can keep going.

The body grows stronger through repeated adaptation, not one extreme session. Someone who has never run may still finish 10 kilometres one day. But being able to finish and being ready to absorb that load are not the same thing.

Everything has to happen step by step.

And to see those small gains—and understand the pace at which you are moving—you need a record.

That experience became the philosophy of BTY, Better than Yesterday. OnRep is the first product we built from it.

OnRep brings strength training, running, functional fitness, and other workout records into one place. It helps you keep track of what you lifted, how far you ran, and what changes your records are beginning to show over time.

A workout log is more than a place to store old numbers.

Day by day, those records become the story of your performance and how it is changing. They can show whether you are getting stronger, moving faster, and how much training you have been taking on.

If you lift far more than usual or increase your training volume too quickly, the record may also be a signal worth looking at—a sign that you might be asking too much of yourself right now.

One day, we want OnRep to be able to ask questions like these before you have to.

We do not want to simply make people exercise more. We want to help them understand their bodies and their records, and grow at a pace they can sustain. That is the training experience we want OnRep to create.

If I had known all of this when I first started, I believe I could have grown healthier—and faster—with fewer wrong turns and fewer injuries.

I do not want people beginning their own training journey to have to repeat the same mistakes I made.

BTY will keep building products that help people focus on their own change instead of measuring themselves against others, and keep expanding what they can do without sacrificing the ability to continue.