Use workout actions
Get a quick answer about training or take the next action without finding every control in Momentum. Open Shortcuts on your iPhone and find Momentum's app shortcuts. You can also ask Siri to run a workout request.
Choose a quick request or a workout action
Open Momentum on your iPhone before looking for its actions in Apple's Shortcuts app. Unlock the iPhone when asked. To use spoken requests, enable Siri on that iPhone.
Start Workout needs a suggested planned or recent strength workout. Workout controls need an active strength workout. Queries can still return an empty result, and completed Momentum workouts populate Weekly Summary.
Find and run a Momentum action
- Open Shortcuts and find Momentum among the app shortcuts.
- Choose the shortcut you want to run.
- If the action asks for Workout, select the workout you intend to use.
- Read or listen to the result.
| Shortcut | What it does |
|---|---|
| Start Workout | Starts a selected planned or recent strength workout. |
| Next Workout | Finds today's or the next suggested planned strength workout. |
| Active Workout | Reports the current exercise and set, or the workout's rest, pause, or completed state. |
| Pause Workout | Pauses the active workout. |
| Resume Workout | Resumes a paused workout. |
| Log Current Set | Records the current set using its planned reps and weight. |
| Skip Rest | Ends the current rest. |
| Weekly Summary | Reports completed Momentum workouts, active minutes, and completed sets. |
If your actual reps or weight differ from the plan, enter them in Momentum instead of using Log Current Set.
With Siri enabled, try “What's my next workout in Momentum” for a query or “Pause my Momentum workout” to pause an active workout.
Include an action in your own shortcut
Open the app shortcut's more-options menu and choose Use in New Shortcut. Review its parameters before running it. For Get workout summary, set Period to This Week or Last 7 Days; This Week is the default.
You can also use Add Action in a personal shortcut and search for Edit workout in Momentum. Select its Workout parameter. This additional action opens scheduled-workout details or an independent editable copy of a recent workout in Momentum. It does not rewrite the recorded workout.
Check what the action returned
Asking about a workout does not start it. Control actions change the active workout only when its state allows that action.
Start Workout does not silently replace an active workout. If Momentum reports that one is already active, open it and decide what to do next.
Siri and ordinary Shortcuts actions require device authentication. Their access rules differ from the controls on a Live Activity.
When a request needs the app
If Momentum is missing from Shortcuts, open Momentum, then check Shortcuts again. The system controls when actions appear; Siri recognition and suggestions are not guaranteed.
The workout list is deliberately short: up to four planned strength workouts within 14 days starting today, plus up to four strength workouts from the latest 12 history entries. If the workout you want is missing, find it in Momentum. Next Workout does not search beyond that planned window or include endurance workouts.
Weekly Summary counts at most 50 completed Momentum workouts in the selected period. It excludes ended-early workouts and Apple Health imports. This Week follows your local calendar; it is not the Weekly Momentum adherence report in Progress.
If a request cannot access workout data, that does not mean you have no workouts. Unlock the iPhone normally and open Momentum. If a selection is no longer available or a control reports a change, check the workout before trying again. Do not repeat a logging request just because its result was unclear.