An online prep coach
Reads your check-in form at check-in, once a week, and answers in a message. The fee is set by each coach.
Show prep
A contest prep app: every week counts toward your show date.
NOTANOTR is an iPhone app for show prep, launching soon, that counts every week toward your show date, lines up check-in photos in six poses against four and twelve weeks back, and reads your weight trend, food, training and sleep before it proposes one change every Sunday.
The short answer
A prep coach, an app, or both.
An online prep coach reads the check-in form you fill in, once a week, for a fee each coach sets. NOTANOTR reads every weigh-in, meal, set, supplement and blood draw you logged, any time you ask, for USD 39.99 a month or USD 299 a year. Plenty of competitors will want both: your coach can read the same file with a code you make.
A prep coach with NOTANOTR
With a code you make, your coach reads your whole file in the assistant they already use, and you can end it any time.
NOTANOTR
The countdown, six poses against four and twelve weeks back, the trend against your plan line and one change every Sunday.
Side by side
What a check-in form shows, and what the file shows.
A typical online prep coach, as the NOTANOTR front page compares one. NOTANOTR as its front page and its long page describe it.
| Feature | Online prep coach | NOTANOTR |
|---|---|---|
| What gets read | The check-in form you fill in | Every weigh-in, meal, set, supplement and blood draw you logged |
| When it answers | At check-in, once a week | Any time you ask, 23:40 included |
| Show date | Agreed with your coach | Set the date and every week counts toward it, with a countdown |
| Check-in photos | Sent with your check-in | Six poses, each with a drawn guide and your last photo as a ghost, against four and twelve weeks back |
| Blood work | If you send the PDF | Beside the scale and your supplements, against the lab's range |
| The last weeks | Your coach decides | A lower calorie floor only if you switch it on yourself; it ends on the show date |
| The week’s change | In a message | One change, the number behind it, and what it should do |
| Price | Set by each coach | USD 39.99 a month or USD 299 a year |
The prep coach column describes a typical online prep coach, as the NOTANOTR front page does; prices vary from coach to coach.
Honest limits
What NOTANOTR does not do.
- It does not cut your floorThe coach cannot lower your calorie floor. Only you can, for the last weeks, and those weeks cost sleep, training and mood, so a doctor or an experienced prep coach should know.
- No AndroidiPhone only, for now.
- Not for beginnersIt reads what you already log. It does not teach you how to train or how to count food.
- Not in the App Store yetIt launches soon. Leave an address on the front page and we tell you when it is live.
Can my prep coach see my data?
Only what your code allows, and only until it ends. Blood work, supplements and photo dates are off unless you switch them on for that code.
Which poses does it use?
Front, side and back, relaxed. If you compete, front and back double biceps and abs and thigh, behind one switch. Each pose has a drawn guide, and your last photo shows as a ghost.
Does it lower my calories for the last weeks?
Only if you switch a lower floor on yourself. The coach cannot, and the lower floor ends on the show date.
Does it tell me what to take?
No. You log the supplements you already take, and the amount is yours to set. It lines your blood work up with them and writes the question for your next appointment.
How much does it cost?
USD 39.99 a month or USD 299 a year, with 7 days free (CHF 39.95 or CHF 299 in Switzerland, EUR 39.99 or EUR 299 where the App Store charges in euros).
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