Diet apps treat a rest day as a lower number. Workout apps treat it as a skipped workout. Neither is a rest day. Rest is work you did not do in the gym and still need on the record.

FORM’s use case: movement can be zero and the day can still close if rest counts and fuel is logged. The ring is never closed for free.

The day

  • Log meals as usual. Recovery is not a reason to skip food.
  • Do not invent a session to keep a gym streak. Log rest.
  • Connect sleep if you use Apple Health or Health Connect.
  • Close the ring because the rest day was in form, not because you opened the app.

Why this matters

People drop trackers on rest days because the product has nothing to do. FORM still has a job: capture fuel, capture rest, show the ring. Tomorrow’s session is easier to start when yesterday was not a hole in the log.

What FORM will not do

It will not tell you that rest extends lifespan. It will not diagnose overtraining. If you are injured or unwell, that is a clinician. FORM records the day you actually had.