Manual exercise entry
Log a set by hand in Metric Lift: warm-ups, machine work, accessories, or a set where the recording failed.
Type the load and reps, tap the box on the set row, and Metric Lift logs the set without the camera. Use it for warm-ups, machine work, accessories, or a barbell set where the recording failed. The set saves the load and reps.
Log a dumbbell, cable or machine set
Exercises without velocity tracking, such as dumbbell, cable or machine work, never use the camera.
- Enter the load and reps on the set row. Add a duration or distance if the exercise uses one.
- Tap the empty box at the end of the row.
The set is complete. The next set is ready below it.
Log a barbell set without recording
- Swipe left on your next set.
- Tap ⋯.
- Choose Mark complete.
The same menu has Import a video, for a set you filmed outside the app, and Record set. See Importing a video.
To turn tracking off for the whole workout, tap Training preferences at the bottom of the workout and switch off Enable barbell tracking. See Logging a workout.
What a manual set keeps
- Load and reps, plus duration or distance if the exercise uses them.
- RPE or RIR, if you turned on an exertion metric. See RPE and RIR.
- Its place in the workout, in history, and in your weekly streak. The streak counts every week that holds a completed workout.
Your coach sees the load and reps.
When it goes wrong
- A weaker e1RM. The velocity e1RM and your velocity trends use tracked reps. Record your heaviest set rather than marking it complete. The e1RM needs it as one of its 3 loads. See Estimated 1RM.
- A set you forgot. Add it before you tap Finish workout. In history, you can edit or delete the sets a workout holds.