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Do You Track Your Lifts and How?

Do You Track Your Lifts and How?

  • I go old school with pen and notebook

  • I enter them into my phone using something like Word or Excel

  • I use a specific app

  • I don't track my lifts

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SB Labs
My wife use to use pen & note book but stopped tracking bcs she would get so frustrated when progression wouldn't raise at the rate she thought it should🤣🤣 she is pretty intense,🤣
 
My coach has a white label version of Trainerize. Sends workouts in it and it tracks historical progress etc. Works great, but I don’t like that all my info is now in someone else’s app. Thinking of either double tracking like with Hevy or Jefit (something like that, but what a pain) or just telling him I’m gonna use a different tracker and I’ll set up the workouts in it. Genius on his part as it’s like apple locking you in to their ecosystem (not sure it’s intentional to do that on his part)


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I wanted to create an app to use. Just vibe code it. I started compiling exercise lists and have a few hundred. Give primary function, secondary muscles worked. Then create your plan and see volume per week, graph lifts by some intensity metric (weight x volume) or something.

I know there are ones that ppl pay for, but wanted to build something for myself to upgrade from google sheets
 
WED said:
I know there are ones that ppl pay for, but wanted to build something for myself to upgrade from google sheets
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I paid for my sheets. For what I got though and how convenient they've been I think it was worth it. Training, macro calculator, meal plans, measurements, PEDs all tracked in the same place.
 
I haven't really found any great apps that make it simple. So I used a notebook and pen. But honestly now I am not tracking. I can move thru a workout quicker without having to write everything down. Sometimes I get so into a set Im not even counting reps. So that was messing me up when I I tracked. Also when I tracked everything I was never really having to go back and look at anything. I know when I'm getting stronger in lifts.
 
Recently started using the Strong weightlifting app. Haven’t used an app before so I don’t have a lot to compare it to. Was using notes on my phone but that got annoying. I like the app so far, keeps me from doom scrolling my phone between sets.


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Honestly thought now that you mention this and someone said chat gpt. That's probably the way to do it. I was just messing with it. And this is a sample of what it spit out. And I was just taking to it. Not typing. I'm gonna try it next workout. And if you use that it can keep track of progression and tell you how you're doing.

WORKOUT LOG – March 5, 2026

Leg Press
Set 1 – 6 plates – 12 reps
Set 2 – 6 plates – 11 reps
Set 3 – 7 plates – 8 reps

Hack Squat
Set 1 – 2 plates – 12 reps
Set 2 – 2 plates – 10 reps
Set 3 – 2 plates – 9 reps

Seated Hamstring Curl
Set 1 – 140 – 12 reps
Set 2 – 150 – 10 reps
Set 3 – 160 – 8 reps
 
SB Labs
Right now I use an AI app, Gravl. Tracks and adjusts weight and rep ranges.
I'm going to try Macrofactor workouts next to see if the AI is any better

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Gymverse App
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Been using Setgraph and have been happy so far. Seems to track everything well and I like that it has a timer for rest periods, allowing you to set an overall rest timer or timer for individual days/exercises.
 
i've done pen and notebook since the beginning. I've wanted to go digital, but haven't found the system or app I like, plus I don't like the distraction of the phone mid lift tbh. I'm going to try some of these apps you guys have recommended though. I also like the thought of having AI just take the written data into it and have it export into spreadsheets and help track progression more efficiently and then I can keep my archaic system in place while taking advantage of the digital side more efficiently!
 
Boostcamp, have programs available but you can just create your own plan. Pretty easy to switch up exercises so you can adapt based on availability at the gym.
 
I used notebooks for years, then switched to emailing myself for another say decade, now I use the RP hypertrophy app. I like it, only downside for me is if I want to do a body part again before it comes up in the rotation I cannot. So then i have to do some manipulation, soo, kinda looking for something a little more free. Going to checkout that Hevy and Strong app. Might try using Gemini in my Android as well.
 
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I used notebooks for years, then switched to emailing myself for another say decade, now I use the RP hypertrophy app. I like it, only downside for me is if I want to do a body part again before it comes up in the rotation I cannot. So then i have to do some manipulation, soo, kinda looking for something a little more free. Going to checkout that Hevy and Strong app. Might try using Gemini in my Android as well.
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I used RP, but was way overpriced for what you get. Think it was over $200 a year, boostcamp premium I think is around $30.
 
I use Rep Count. Its simple and it tracks my previous weights and reps from my previous workout


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Bunch of dorks.

Pen and paper is the only way.

If you look back through your book, there should be wet spots from sweat on the pages and blood here and there.

Hardcore baby!

(Kidding about the blood, not the sweat. Even though I did have some pages get ruined in 2020 from nose bleeds doing squats during my COVID prep)
 
When I was much younger I used to just write it down in a note book. Haven't done that for at least 20 years.
 

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