Achievements

What it is

An achievement is a badge Kinoku gives you for something you actually did, and there are 132 of them across 13 groups. Most carry Bronze, Silver, and Gold steps, so a badge you earn in your first month still has somewhere to go years later.

Take the 5k badge as the example for this page. Bronze lands the first time you run one, Silver sits partway up, and Gold waits until you have run fifty of them. Nearly every badge here is built on that shape.

A hidden layer sits above the rest. Archetypes open only once you hold Gold in several groups at the same time, and they are the Lifter, the Runner, the Athlete, and the Devotee.

The 13 groups

• Consistency. Streaks and weekly habits, for showing up when it is hard.
• Strength. Personal records (PRs), one-rep max (1RM) goals, and strength for your bodyweight.
• Volume. How much you lift in a single day and over a lifetime.
• Variety. New lifts, new sports, and new routines.
• Endurance. Run and cardio distance goals.
• Dedication. Months and years of logging.
• Wellness. Kinoku Score states and tracking habits.
• Mastery. Finishing hard programs and plans.
• Balance. Even muscle work and lift ratios.
• Recovery. Rest habits, rest days, and sleep.
• Competition. Social Bets wins and finished games.
• Archetype. Big goals that want Gold in several groups first.
• Secret. Hidden ones with no hints, where finding them is the point.

What you can earn them for

• Volume. Your first 1,000 kg in a day, then 100,000 kg, then a million.
• Streaks. 7, 30, and 100 days in a row.
• Personal records. Your first, your tenth, and your fiftieth.
• Run distance. First 5k, 10k, half marathon, and marathon.
• Bodyweight strength. Gravity Defier at 1.0×, 1.5×, and 2.0× your own weight (see Bodyweight Total Load).
• Kinoku Score. Days at Thriving, weeks at Building, and your first deep insight.
• Rest days. The ones you log, plus the rest Kinoku spots for you (Pro).
• Social Bets. Your first bet, your first win, and streak bets.
• Polarized weeks. An 80/20 split in Zone Training.
• Secret ones. Certain lift combinations, times of day, and odd cases.

Tier-gated achievements

Most badges open on any plan, and 24 of the definitions ask for Pro. Some of those read Pro-only data, like the polarized-week badge that comes out of Zone Training. Others are gated by the definition itself, like the custom-interval badges. Kinoku still shows all of them with a 🔒 PRO mark, so the locked rungs stay in view rather than vanishing until you pay.

Why the ladder is not decoration

The first reason is that the bar moves as you do. Plenty of apps hand out a badge for opening the app, which is worth nothing by the second week, whereas the 5k ladder still has fifty runs at the top of it once you have run one.

The second reason is that the archetypes ask for breadth rather than grinding. You cannot reach the Athlete by repeating your best lift, because it wants Gold in groups that pull in different directions, which usually takes years of varied work.

The third reason is that a badge describes the training rather than the app. The groups are built around lifting, running, resting, and coming back, so the ladder reads as a record of what you did rather than a list of features you tapped.

What stays blank, and why

Badges tied to Social Bets cannot make progress while that feature is switched off, and the secret ones give no hints on purpose. So a handful of squares on the grid will sit blank for a long time, and a few of them may never fill.

The free layer

108 of the 132 definitions are ungated, which puts most of the ladder on the free plan while the whole of it stays visible. Pro adds the remaining 24 and the Achievement Timeline. The counts here describe the app as it ships now, and the ladder has grown before.