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Workout Timer

Thirty minutes is the session most people can actually do on a weekday, and the length that fits between other things without a negotiation. It is enough for a full-body circuit, a run, or a lifting session of three or four movements if you keep the rests honest.

Honest rests are the part a timer fixes. Rest between sets is the most reliably mis-estimated interval in training: ninety seconds of scrolling feels like thirty, and a session that should take half an hour spreads to fifty minutes with less work done in it.

The tip: put the timer where you already look. On a phone propped against a water bottle it will be ignored; on the nearest monitor in fullscreen it will not. Press F, and the pixel digits fill the screen without going soft, because they are drawn as blocks rather than typed as a font.

For work and rest rounds that repeat, use the interval timer instead. This page is for the session as a whole: start it at the warm-up and let it be the reason you leave.

Questions

Can I use this for rest between sets?

You can restart it each time, but the interval timer is built for it: work, rest and a round count that advances by itself.

Does it keep time if I switch to a music app?

Yes. The countdown is anchored to the clock, so leaving the tab, locking the phone or opening something else does not slow it down.

Can I see it from across the gym?

Press F for fullscreen. The digits scale to whole pixels at every size, so they stay sharp rather than blurring at large sizes.