Workout Timers
EMOM Timer
Every minute on the minute — the timer calls each round, you do the work and rest on whatever time is left.
Every minute on the minute — the timer calls each round, you do the work and rest on whatever time is left.
Ten rounds, one a minute. At the top of each minute do your work, then rest until the next.
Twenty rounds, one a minute. Hold one movement or alternate; rest on the time you have left.
Ten rounds, every two minutes. For heavier or higher-rep work that needs more than a minute.
EMOM stands for "every minute on the minute." At the top of each minute you perform a set amount of work — a number of reps, a short effort, a skill — and then rest for whatever is left of that minute before the next one starts. The timer keeps the clock; all you do is start working when it calls the round.
It is one of the staples of CrossFit and functional-fitness programming, and it travels anywhere a stopwatch does: a kettlebell EMOM, a rowing EMOM, a pull-up EMOM. The format is the same whatever the movement — fixed minutes, fixed work, self-regulating rest.
The clever part of an EMOM is that it makes your rest depend on your work. If the prescribed reps take you 35 seconds, you get 25 seconds to recover; if they take 50, you only get 10. Working faster buys more rest, so the format quietly enforces honest pacing without you having to watch a separate rest clock.
That self-correcting balance is why coaches reach for it. Pick a workload you can sustain and an EMOM keeps you moving at a steady, repeatable output for the whole session — long enough to accumulate real volume, structured enough that you never blow up in the first few minutes.
EMOMs suit three jobs especially well. For conditioning, they hold you to a pace and stop you sandbagging the rest. For skill work — double-unders, Olympic lifts, handstand practice — the minute gives a fresh, unhurried attempt every time without you having to decide when to go again. And for building volume, breaking a big rep total into bite-sized minutes makes it far more manageable than one long set.
Reach for a longer round when the work itself takes longer. A heavy barbell complex or a higher-rep set will not fit comfortably into a minute, so the E2MOM — every two minutes on the minute — gives you the room. Same idea, double the window.
A 10-minute EMOM is the standard starting point — ten rounds, long enough to get a real effect, short enough to stay sharp the whole way through. The 20-minute version doubles the volume for a tougher conditioning piece, and is a common length for benchmark work.
The E2MOM preset runs two-minute rounds for the heavier or higher-rep efforts that need more than sixty seconds. Every preset here opens in the editor, so you can change the round length, set the number of rounds to match your workout, and press start.
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