Logging a workout

A workout in Metric allows you to complete your entire session, not just barbell tracked exercises. You can record bar speed, estimate 1RM, log manual entry exercises, sets, weights, reps, durations, and track rest from a single screen.

Starting a workout

From the home screen, tap Start a workout. Three starting points:

1. Build from scratch — empty workout, add exercises and sets as you train.
2. From a template — pick or build a template. See Templates: create, save, reuse.
3. Repeat from history — pick a past workout and follow the same exercises and set progressions as a starting point.

Adding exercises

1. Tap Add exercise.
2. Search the exercise library or pick from the list. If your exercise isn’t there, you can create a new custom exercise and add it to your library. See Custom exercises.
3. Add sets with planned load, reps, durations and RPE/RIR values.
4. Drag to reorder your exercises in the workout by long pressing on the exercise name.

Multi-select is on by default, so tap every exercise you want before confirming in the exercise selection list.

Tracked vs manual entry exercises

Barbell exercises use the camera to track reps and velocity. Non-barbell exercises are logged by hand, with sets, reps, load and duration entered as you go.

You can mix the two freely. Swipe right on a velocity-tracked exercise to open its option menu, where you can import a video instead of recording live, or complete any set manually without tracking velocity.

If you’d rather not track velocity at all today, turn it off in the exercise training preferences menu. That switches Metric to a simple workout logger for the session.

Rest timer

Metric has two rest timers, one in the top toolbar shows the time since you last completed any set of any exercise.

The second timer is inline for each exercise. It shows under the last completed set and above your next planned set showing you how long it has been since you completed that specific exercise.

For velocity tracked exercises, the rest timer starts based on the last detected rep timestamp during your set, giving you exact rest durations from the moment the barbell stopped moving.

Deleting sets and exercises

You can delete completed and incomplete sets by swiping right and confirming by tapping the trash can icon. You can also delete an entire exercise by the three-dot menu in the top row next to the exercise name.

Switching exercises

You can switch exercises like-for-like during a workout and they will maintain the same sets and weight progressions. However, once an exercise has a completed set you can no longer switch it, so make the change before you complete anything. Alternatively you can simply delete the exercise you do not want and add a new exercise and then drag to re-order.

Ending the workout

Tap End workout and you will be taken to an end-of-session summary. Here you will see:

• your personal records for the day
• any significant velocity trending (faster and slower)
• a snapshot overview of the sets completed, workout duration, and tonnage lifted

The session goes to your training history and contributes to trend and PR tracking.

Saving and updating programs

From the workout summary page, when saving, you’ll be prompted to update or create a new program template from the current workout. See Templates: create, save, reuse.

Coach-built workouts

If you’re on a coach’s roster, your coach can push workouts to you. They appear in your assigned programs list — start them like any other workout. See Sharing programs with your team.