Hestaria

Strength training for men 50–65

Built around the knee you actually have.

Most training apps are written for a healthy thirty-year-old and handed to everyone else. Hestaria starts from your conditions, your medications and your injuries, and builds the program from there.

Not a medical device. Hestaria adapts your training around your health. It does not diagnose, treat or manage any condition, and it never replaces your doctor.

How it works

Your answers change the program, not just the disclaimer

Tell it once what's true of you. Every session after that is built from it — which movements, how hard, how fast you progress, and what to watch.

A real example

61 years old High blood pressure Knee osteoarthritis Osteoporosis Bad shoulder On a beta blocker
Barbell deadliftHip thrust Osteoporosis — loading the spine in a bent position is where vertebral fractures happen.
Back squatLeg press Knee arthritis — same muscles, a range that doesn't hurt.
Overhead pressLandmine press Shoulder impingement, and blood pressure — angled pressing avoids both problems.
Heart-rate zonesThe talk test Beta blockers blunt heart rate at every effort level, which makes zones and "220 minus your age" wrong for you. Perceived effort still works.

Plus wall sits added for blood pressure, balance work added for bone, and every rule in the app tagged with the condition that produced it — so you can always see why.

The app

Three screens you'll actually open

Large type, no streaks, no confetti, nothing to dismiss. It shows you what to do today and what your own numbers are saying.

The planEvery rule carries the reason it exists, in plain language.

The food diaryPhotograph the plate. Every entry is checked against your own restrictions.

ProgressWeight, lifts and photos on one screen — so a flat week reads as what it is.

What's in it

Four things, done properly

01

A program that knows your history

Fifteen conditions, six medication classes, injuries and equipment. Movements swapped or excluded, an effort ceiling set, progression paced, and a clearance gate for anything that needs a doctor's sign-off first.

02

A log that tells you something

Every set with reps and effort. Then a weekly read that applies the rules to your own numbers: three flat weeks means recalibrate portions, three hard weeks means take an easier one.

03

A food diary that checks itself

Photograph the plate for a protein and calorie estimate. Every entry is checked against your own restrictions — so a dish that's wrong for your diet, your allergies or your blood pressure gets flagged.

04

Before and after, for real

Progress photos side by side with your weight on each date. The mirror is a bad judge because you see it daily. Eight weeks apart is where the change is obvious.

Privacy

Your photos never leave your phone

Not as a policy. As a fact about how the app is built.

Your phone Hestaria sync Your account, your devices Numbers Weight · blood pressure · training log · food entries Photos Meal and progress photos stay on the device

There is no upload path for an image in the app. Not a setting — a missing capability.

Pricing

Free is a real product, not a trial

The part that matters — the condition-aware program, the log, the weekly review — costs nothing and never expires.

Free
$0

Everything on one device.

  • Condition-aware program
  • Full training log and progression
  • Weekly review of your numbers
  • Food diary, entered by hand
  • Progress photos, on your device
Hestaria Plus
$6 / month

Your history, everywhere.

  • Everything in Free
  • Sync across your devices
  • Your log backed up, not stranded on one phone
  • Photo estimates for meals
  • Export everything, any time

Prices are indicative while we're in early access. Nobody is charged during the beta.

Questions

The ones worth asking

Is this safe with my heart condition?

That is your cardiologist's call, not ours, and the app is built to say so. Conditions that need sign-off trigger a clearance gate: walking and mobility stay available, the full program unlocks once you confirm a doctor has cleared you. Stop rules are visible on every screen.

Does it replace my doctor or my physio?

No, and it doesn't try to. Hestaria is fitness programming that adapts around your health. It doesn't diagnose, it doesn't manage conditions, it gives no medication guidance and it sets no clinical targets. Where its suggestions and your clinician's disagree, your clinician is right.

How accurate are the photo estimates?

Useful, not precise — and the app says so on every entry. Oil, butter and sauces are invisible in a photograph and can move calories by a third. Every estimate arrives with a confidence level and stays editable. Building it to look authoritative would make it worse than a paper notebook.

Why only men 50 to 65?

Because a program aimed at everybody is aimed at nobody. Recovery slows, joints have history, and medications arrive that change how training should be measured. Building for one group means we can be specific instead of generic. Other groups deserve the same specificity — from a product built for them.

How fast will I lose weight?

Half a pound to a pound a week. Thirty pounds takes eight to twelve months. Any app promising faster is describing water weight, and you'll find that out in week three. We'd rather you hear it now.