Real-time feedback and the tempo beep in Metric Lift — Docs

Tap Feedback on the recording screen, pick a type, and Metric Lift talks to you during the set. It can read out each rep’s score, sound a bell or a buzzer against a target, or warn you when bar speed drops too far. A separate Tempo switch adds a beep every second.

Turn on feedback

On the recording screen, tap Feedback. The button shows a megaphone.
Switch on Feedback.
Under Type, pick Read, Target or Loss.
Under Metric, pick the number you want to hear.

Real-time feedback and the tempo beep come with Pro or Ultra. See Subscriptions.

Read and Target work with mean velocity, peak velocity, range of motion, mean power, peak power and time to peak velocity. Loss works with mean velocity or peak velocity only.

Read

Read speaks the score of every rep as soon as you finish it. Use it when you want to hear each rep without a threshold.

Target

Target plays a bell for a rep above your target and a buzzer for a rep below it. Enter the target in the Target field or drag the slider.

Use a target when working sets must stay above a set speed or power. For example, set 1000 W on your cleans and listen for the reps that fall short. In a taper, set 0.4 m/s on your strength sets and stop the set at the first buzzer.

Loss

Loss tracks velocity loss: how far each rep falls below the fastest rep of the set. Set the Loss alert (%) from 0 to 60. The default is 20.

Loss stays silent while the set is fresh. Once a rep’s loss passes your alert by more than 2 percentage points, Metric Lift reads out the loss for each rep. Take that as the cue to end the set, or to do one last rep. See Training metrics for how velocity loss is worked out.

Tempo beep

Switch on Tempo to hear a beep every second from the moment you start recording. The interval is fixed at 1 second. Count the beeps to pace a slow eccentric or a paused rep.

Tempo works on its own or alongside Read, Target or Loss. You can pace the eccentric with the beep and push the concentric against a target.

The beep does not change your data. Metric Lift measures the eccentric, concentric, bottom pause and top pause of every rep. The set review shows the tempo you actually lifted. See Training metrics.

Choose when to use it

Working sets. Target and Loss help you hold intent and stop at the right effort without looking at the screen.
Picking a working weight. If every rep rings above target, add load. If the buzzer sounds from the first rep, take some off.
Technique work. Leave feedback off.
Warm-ups. Leave feedback off, except on the ramp-up sets close to your working weight.
Max singles and doubles. Leave feedback off. One or two reps give the cue nothing to act on.

Hear it in a busy gym

Feedback plays through your phone’s current audio output at media volume. In a shared gym, pair Bluetooth earbuds.

When it goes wrong

Spoken and final values differ. Metric Lift tracks each rep twice: once live, then again after the set. The second pass is more precise. When the two disagree, trust the set review.
A skipped cue. If a cue still plays when the next rep ends, Metric Lift can skip the next cue. The set review still shows every rep.
A silent rep. If Metric Lift loses the plate during a rep, that rep stays silent. Keep the plate in frame for the whole set.