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Logging workouts

Record sets with warmup, drop, failure and superset flags, run the rest timer, and recover drafts.

4-minute read · Updated Sep 25, 2026
  • training
  • logging
  • sets

Every set you log feeds your history, stats, and personal records. Logging takes about ten seconds per set once the routine is set up.

Start a session

Start empty or from a saved routine. Routines live in folders, so Monday's push day is one tap away — build the folder once, then never rebuild the session again.

Life interrupts mid-workout, and that is fine: if you close the app, the draft waits. Reopen and continue exactly where you stopped.

Flag how each set went

Mark warm-up sets so they never pollute your working numbers. Flag drop sets, sets to failure, and group supersets — each flag changes how the set counts in your stats.

The rest timer runs between sets, so you keep a honest pace without watching the clock. If you keep resting the same few extra minutes, the log will show it.

Log what actually happened

Record the weight you lifted with control, not the weight you survived. Add a short note when something was off: "left shoulder tight", "reps rushed", "new bar position". Those notes are what next week's decisions are made from.

Keep it short on purpose. Weight, reps, one honest note — a log you maintain beats a perfect log you abandon.

Close the session, then read it

Save the session when you finish and the history updates immediately: per exercise, per day, with your notes attached. Personal records land in Progress without any extra work.

Before the next session, open the exercise and read the last entry. The number to beat is right there; training from the log is what turns sessions into progress.

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