Challenge · 75 Hard
The 75 Hard tracker that also tracks what it is doing to you.
Habit Pocket tracks all five 75 Hard tasks in one grid: two 45-minute workouts with one outdoors, a gallon of water, 10 pages of a physical book, your chosen diet, and the daily progress photo. Track it as five checkboxes, which fits the free plan exactly, or log water, workout minutes and your weight as real numbers and watch a 75-day trend line instead. Both setups are below, with a live demo of each.
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Last updated: July 2026
The challenge
What is the 75 Hard challenge?
75 Hard is a 75-day mental toughness programme created by Andy Frisella. Its author is explicit that it is a discipline programme rather than a fitness plan, though most people run it with a fitness goal in mind. Five tasks, every day, for 75 days.
| Daily task | What it means |
|---|---|
| Two 45-minute workouts | At least three hours apart, and one of them has to be outdoors whatever the weather. |
| A gallon of water | One US gallon, roughly 3.8 litres, every day. |
| 10 pages of non-fiction | A physical book or an e-book. Audiobooks do not count toward it. |
| Follow a diet you choose | The programme does not pick one for you. No cheat meals and no alcohol. |
| A progress photo | One every day, for all 75 days. |
Then the rule the whole thing is built on: miss any task on any day and you start over at day 1, even if you are on day 74. No substitutions, no makeup days, no rest days. The full rules are on Andy Frisella’s site, and they are worth reading at the source before you start.
One honest note
75 Hard is the one challenge where you do not use a skip.
Habit Pocket normally lets you mark a day as a skip so a streak pauses instead of breaking, which is there for rest days and for real life. 75 Hard does not work that way, and pretending otherwise would be tracking a different challenge.
So when you track 75 Hard, a blank cell is supposed to break the run, and the grid shows it plainly rather than smoothing it over. That is the honesty the challenge is built on. If that all-or-nothing rule is the part that worries you, take it as a signal that 75 Soft might suit you better. Habit Pocket tracks that one too, skips and all.
Setup one
The simple way: five checkboxes.
The simplest 75 Hard setup is five yes/no habits you tick each day, and it fits Habit Pocket's free plan exactly, because the free plan stops at five habits.
| Habit | Type | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Two workouts | Yes/No | One checkbox for the pair keeps you at five habits. Split it into two on Pro if you want them tracked separately. |
| Gallon of water | Yes/No | Tick it when the gallon is gone. The advanced setup below logs the amount instead. |
| Read 10 pages | Yes/No | Non-fiction, on paper or an e-reader. |
| Diet on plan | Yes/No | Whichever diet you picked. The check means you stayed on it today. |
| Progress photo | Yes/No | Habit Pocket records that you took it. The photo itself stays in your camera roll. |
Put all five in one section and name it whatever keeps you honest. Five checks a day, and the grid becomes the streak. Tracking the two workouts as separate habits would make six, which needs Pro, so the combined checkbox is what keeps this setup free.
Demo · Simple setup
What a restart actually looks like.
An example grid, not real data: a first attempt that reached day 11, one missed workout, and then day 1 again. One blank cell in the workouts column is the whole story.
Worth understanding before you rely on it: Habit Pocket counts a streak per habit, so only the workouts column reset. The other four kept their runs, because you genuinely did those tasks that day, which is why they stay dark while the workouts column starts pale again. Under 75 Hard’s rules the challenge itself is back at day 1 regardless. The app records what happened and leaves the verdict to you.
The same run against the full 75 days, which is the part that keeps you honest. The empty stretch is everything still ahead, the gap near the end is the missed workout, and the short block after it is the restart.
Setup two
The advanced way: numbers, weight, and a 75-day trend.
If you want to see what 75 days actually did, and not only that you finished, log the tasks as numbers instead of checkboxes and add your weight. The tasks stay the same; what changes is what you can read afterwards.
| Habit | Type | Target | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water | Numeric | 3.8 L | See how close you actually get, not just done or not done. |
| Workout minutes | Numeric | 90 min | Two 45-minute sessions, and the total load over 75 days. |
| Outdoor workout | Time of day | 07:00 | Records when the outdoor session happened, as a real clock time. |
| Pages read | Numeric | 10 pages | Watch the pages, and the books, add up. |
| Weight | Numeric | kg or lb | The trend line most people are really after. |
| Diet on plan | Yes/No | — | Some things are still just yes or no. |
| Progress photo | Yes/No | — | Completion tracked here, photo kept on your phone. |
Being straight about the tiers: numeric habits themselves are on the free plan, but this setup is seven habits rather than five, and the 75-day chart range, the custom chart builder and correlation overlays are all Pro. So the simple version above is genuinely free, and this one is not.
Demo · Advanced setup
The same five tasks, logged as values.
An example grid, not real data. Water in litres, both sessions as minutes, the outdoor workout as a real clock time, pages read, and weight in its own section underneath.
Demo · What 75 days did
The chart a checkbox can never draw.
Because water, minutes and weight are real numbers, they go on one timeline together for the whole challenge. This is example data for illustration, not a promise about results.
Challenge
Water
Weight
Weight, water & workout minutes across 75 days
Hover any day to read the exact numbers
The gentler version
75 Hard vs 75 Soft: which one are you tracking?
75 Soft is the popular gentler variant. It keeps the shape of the challenge and drops the parts that make people quit, most of all the restart rule.
| Rule | 75 Hard | 75 Soft |
|---|---|---|
| Workouts | Two 45-minute sessions daily, one outdoors | 30+ minutes, four days a week |
| Rest days | None | Allowed |
| Water | One gallon (about 3.8 L) | Three litres |
| Reading | 10 pages, no audiobooks | 10 pages or 10 minutes of audio |
| Diet | No cheat meals, no alcohol | Roughly 90% on plan |
| Photos | Every day | Day 1 and day 75 |
| Miss a day | Start over at day 1 | Carry on |
Habit Pocket tracks either one. For 75 Soft you finally get to use skips the way they were designed: mark a rest day as a skip and the streak pauses instead of breaking.
Honest take
Why track 75 Hard here instead of a dedicated 75 Hard app?
Habit Pocket is not a 75 Hard app, and there are good ones that are. What it offers instead is that the challenge sits beside the rest of your habits in one grid, the numbers turn into real charts, and nothing needs abandoning on day 76.
A dedicated 75 Hard app gives you challenge-shaped screens and, usually, somewhere to keep the daily photos. Habit Pocket does neither of those things. It does not store your progress photos and it does not verify that you did anything, it records what you tell it. Push reminders are on the roadmap rather than shipped, which matters more here than on most pages, because one forgotten task costs you the whole run. A repeating calendar alarm is the workaround I would use in the meantime.
What you get in exchange is a tracker that outlives the challenge. On day 76 the grid is still there, the weight trend keeps going, and the habits you want to keep just carry on without a migration.
FAQ
Tracking 75 Hard — common questions
Yes. The simple setup is five yes/no habits, which is exactly the free plan’s limit of five, and sync and CSV export are included at no cost. You would need Pro for the advanced setup, because logging water, workout minutes, pages and weight separately goes past five habits, and the 75-day chart range and the custom chart builder are Pro features.
No. Habit Pocket records that you took the photo, not the photo itself, so the images stay in your phone’s camera roll where you already have them. Some dedicated 75 Hard apps do store them in-app, and if having the photos beside the checklist matters to you, that is a fair reason to use one of those instead.
A blank cell breaks the run, which is exactly what 75 Hard’s rules say should happen. Habit Pocket normally lets you mark a day as a skip to pause a streak, but that is the one feature you do not use for this challenge. You start a fresh streak at day 1 and the grid keeps the honest history of both attempts.
Not yet. Push reminders are on the roadmap and are not shipped, so today a repeating calendar event is the honest workaround. For a challenge where a single missed task costs you 74 days of progress, a reminder you actually trust matters, so this is worth knowing before you commit.
Yes, and 75 Soft is where Habit Pocket’s skips earn their keep. 75 Soft allows rest days, so you mark those as a skip and the streak pauses instead of breaking. The rules are gentler throughout: 30 minutes of exercise four days a week, three litres of water, audiobooks allowed, and no starting over if you slip.
No. 75 HARD is a trademark associated with Andy Frisella and 44Seven Media, and Habit Pocket has no affiliation with, endorsement from, or partnership with either. This is an independent guide to tracking the challenge, written by the developer of the app, with the official rules linked so you can read them at the source.
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