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Programs: start, pause, resume or end
A Program is a short series of walks, a few weeks long, that temporarily takes the place of your personalized plan. You can pause or end it at any time, and your plan comes back.
Programs and your plan
Mova always follows one thing at a time: either your personalized plan, or one Program. While a Program runs, its sessions are your plan, on your usual walking days, and your personalized plan is paused. When the Program ends, or you pause or end it, your personalized plan comes back.
Programs are focused, for example on getting started, building a brisk pace, Japanese Walking, a treadmill or walking indoors. Each Program page shows how many weeks it runs, how many walks a week, how long the walks are and how it builds.
Start a Program
- Go to Workouts and tap Programs at the top.
- Choose a Program: one Recommended for you, or one from the list. Tap Explore program to see the details.
- Tap Start program.
- Check the summary, Ready to start …?, and tap Start program again. Week 1 starts today.
If the Program needs a treadmill, Mova first asks Do you have a treadmill you can use? If a Program may not suit you right now, Mova tells you why; sometimes you can still Start anyway, and otherwise Mova suggests Programs that fit you now.
If another Program is running, Mova asks whether to start this one instead. The other one is paused with its progress saved.
While it runs
- The Plan tab shows Week 1 of 4 (for example) and each walk as a session.
- Walk each session from the Plan or Today, in order. A session counts when you walk it for at least 90% of its time.
- Missed sessions move to your next free day. You can’t skip a single session.
- Walking a Program session on its own from the Workouts list doesn’t count toward the Program.
Pause, resume or end
Open the Program (or tap Manage program at the bottom of the Plan tab) and tap Manage program:
| Action | What happens |
|---|---|
| Pause program | Your progress is saved and your personalized plan comes back. Paused Programs don’t build up missed walks. Find it again in Workouts › Programs. |
| Resume program | You pick up where you left off, for example at Week 2, and it leads your plan again. |
| End program | The Program stops. Your completed walks stay in your activity history, and your personalized plan is updated. |
Coming back after a break
When you resume after some time away, Mova asks How would you like to continue?
- Up to two weeks away: you simply continue.
- Two to six weeks: Mova suggests Start this week again.
- More than six weeks: Mova suggests starting again from week 1, or choosing an easier Program.
Finishing a Program
After the last session, tap Continue on your walk summary to see Program complete: the weeks, sessions and time you walked. Mova then builds Your updated walking plan from your recent walks. Tap View your updated Plan, or Explore more programs.
You can start a completed Program again from its page with Start again.
Your Programs
Workouts › Programs › My programs lists the Program you’re following now, paused ones, completed ones and ones you ended early.
If something goes wrong
- We couldn’t start the program. Your personalized Plan hasn’t changed. Try again in a moment.
- We couldn’t pause the program / We couldn’t resume the program: nothing changed. Try again in a moment.
- No programs to show yet: new Programs appear here; your current plan carries on as usual.
Didn’t solve it?
Email support@movawalk.com. From the app, Profile & settings › Help & support › Contact support adds your app version and support reference.