How to use it
- Pick the format. For time, AMRAP, EMOM, or Tabata and intervals. The fields underneath change to match.
- Set it up. Use the plus and minus buttons, or tap a preset. Everything you change is saved in the page address straight away.
- Press Start. You get a ten second count-in with beeps on 3, 2 and 1, then a long tone for go. The clock takes over the whole screen and keeps your phone awake. The screen is amber while you get ready, green while you work and red while you rest, so you can read it from across the room.
- Train. Each new round or rest gets its own tone, with three short beeps before it. On an AMRAP, tap the rounds panel at the bottom every time you finish one, so you are not counting in your head. Hold it to take one back. Tap anywhere else to pause.
The four formats
For time
Finish the work as fast as you can. The clock counts up from zero. Add a time cap if the workout has one and the timer stops you there; leave it at 0 and press Finish when you are done. Fran and Grace are the classic tests. Read more in the for time workout guide.
AMRAP
As many rounds as possible in a fixed window. The clock counts down and your score is rounds plus reps, so the round counter matters more than the clock. A 20 minute AMRAP is the setting for Cindy. There are more in the AMRAP guide.
EMOM
Every minute on the minute: do the work at the top of each minute and rest for whatever is left. Change Every to 120 for an every-two-minutes block, which suits heavier lifts. For alternating minutes, list the stations and the timer shows the right one each round. Thirty rounds of one minute is Chelsea. The EMOM guide covers how to program them.
Tabata and intervals
Fixed work and rest, repeated. Tabata is 20 seconds on, 10 off, eight times: four minutes that feel much longer. The same mode runs any split, so 40 on 20 off for a bike, or 30/30 for running intervals. The rest clock turns grey so you can tell work from rest at a glance.
Send the timer to your class
Every setting lives in the page address. Set up today's workout, press Copy link and paste it into the class notes or the group chat. Anyone who opens it gets the same clock, ready to start. A link for ten rounds of every-two-minutes looks like this:
joinfiz.com/tools/wod-timer?mode=emom&every=120&rounds=10
Setting it up in the gym
- Prop the phone on its side against a plate or a box. Full screen gives you the biggest digits in either orientation.
- The screen stays on while the clock runs, on browsers that allow it (Chrome, Edge and recent Safari).
- On iPhone, check the silent switch. Web audio follows it, so the beeps are muted while it is on silent.
- Keyboard on a laptop or gym TV: space starts and pauses, R counts a round, F goes full screen.