Training, worked out loud
The questions that come up mid-session — what to do when the rack is taken, how many sets you actually need, why a lift stopped moving. Written against how the app works, so nothing here is advice we cannot back.
How to Swap an Exercise Without Losing the Session
The rack is taken, the machine has a queue, and your programme says squat. A substitution is not a failure — it is a skill, and there are three things worth matching.
6 min readHow Strong Am I? Reading a Working Set Against Real Standards
You do not need to test a one rep max to find out where you stand. A hard set of five tells you nearly as much, and costs you nothing.
6 min readHow Many Sets Per Muscle Per Week, and How to Count Them
Ten to twenty hard sets a week is the number most people land on. Counting them honestly is the part nobody talks about.
5 min readTraining in Kilos When the Gym Is in Pounds
Travel, move country, or just join a gym that stocks the other kind of plate, and your entire training log is suddenly in the wrong units.
5 min readGetting Your Lifting Into Apple Health
Apple Health is built around movement it can measure from your wrist. Lifting is not that, which is why a heavy session can read as a quiet afternoon.
7 min readYour Bench Has Not Moved in Six Weeks. Now What?
Every lift stalls eventually. The useful question is not whether to push harder, but which of the three usual causes you are actually looking at.