A level-up workout app with two real ladders

Your level is one number derived from lifetime XP, and XP comes from work. A verified push-up is worth 10 XP before any bonuses, and clearing campaign levels pays XP on top of the reps themselves. The arithmetic runs on the server, so a level is not a claim you make about yourself. It is a total of reps your phone's camera counted and the server accepted.

The curve is a square root, which has two consequences worth knowing. Early levels arrive fast, so a beginner sees movement in the first week. Later levels take genuine accumulation, so the top of the ladder stays rare. It also means the rep figures further down this page are floors, not forecasts: they assume reps are your only source of XP. In the game you also clear levels and beat chapter bosses, so you will hold each title sooner than the floor suggests.

None of it moves on a button press. Every rep that feeds the ladder was counted by on-device pose detection and then validated server-side, which is what separates this from a fitness app with ranks that move on attendance, or a workout game with levels you can simply declare. If you want the number for your own total, the samurai rank calculator runs the same formula the server does.

Seven titles, running from Ashigaru, the foot soldier who starts on the ground, to Daimyō, the lord at the top of the ladder. They measure accumulated progress: everything you have ever done, added up. A title is permanent. It does not decay when you take a month off, and there is no re-test to keep it, because it records work that already happened.

Divisions answer a different question: how did you rank *this season*, against other players doing the same thing. You start a season Unranked and place into a division on the strength of verified reps you bank while it runs. When the season ends, the ladder turns over and the next one starts. Your titles are untouched by any of it.

The thresholds that separate one division from the next are set server-side and are deliberately not published, here or anywhere else. Publishing them would turn a competitive ladder into a checklist, and it would let anyone reverse-engineer the exact minimum. If you read a specific number for Diamond or Master on some other site, it was invented. How seasons and clan standings interact is covered on the clans and seasons page.

Conflating the two is the most common confusion. Someone who has trained for a year and then eased off holds a high title and a low division. Someone three months in, grinding sets every week, can outrank them for the season while sitting several titles below. Both statements are true, both are earned, and neither is a fake number.

Gems can be bought and they buy cosmetics. Armour, helmets, weapons: they change how your samurai looks and they move nothing on either ladder. There is no rank pack, no XP boost and no tier of anything that hands you a title. The game is free to download and free to play, and rank sits squarely in the free half of it.

The last three rows are the point, and the app's own comparison screen says the same thing: rank reads as *Earned* in both columns. A subscription that sold standing would make the leaderboard worthless to everyone, including the people paying for it. What Dojo Premium actually removes is waiting, not effort. The rest of the split is spelled out on what is free.

It depends entirely on volume, and the floors give you a way to sanity-check any plan. Samurai sits at level 20, which reps alone would reach at about 3,610 lifetime push-ups: roughly seventy days at fifty a day, and sooner once campaign XP is counted. Daimyō, at level 80, has a floor of 62,410. That is a long project measured in years for most people, and it is meant to be.

The thing that stalls people is almost never willingness. It is doing maximal sets every single day until the shoulders complain, which is covered honestly in should you do push-ups every day. Volume you can repeat beats volume you can survive once. If you are trying to move faster, the useful lever is structured progression rather than daily failure: how to increase your push-ups and how to do 100 push-ups both lay out the route.