What's new 🚨

A New Name
‍The Metric VBT app is now simply Metric. For as long as we've been on the App Store, we've been talking about how bar speed tracking is about so much more than velocity-based training. Find us in the App Store under "Metric - Barbell Tracker" and join us in this next chapter of intelligent strength training.

RPE chart
‍Alongside load-velocity and power profiling, you can now access a complete RPE chart for your workouts. This chart takes your top set's RPE, weight, and reps to calculate ideal weights across all RPE values and rep ranges—perfectly calibrated to help you nail your working sets.

Record badges and PR table
‍Track your progress with new performance badges comparing your current sets against all-time bests for load, velocity, power, and reps. Find your complete personal records log on the Performance page, showing detailed progress for every exercise.

Enhanced video features
‍Access velocity recording settings directly from the video screen, enjoy full-screen recording with larger controls, and browse your training history in the new grid view library. Pro users can now manually select which videos to save to their library.

Velocity tracking toggle
‍Sometimes you just want to log your workout without tracking velocity on every set. Toggle velocity tracking off in training preferences for a streamlined workout tracking experience—perfect for those quick sessions when you just need to log your sets. You can also long press on a single set to have it manually completed when velocity tracking is enabled

Improvements ✨

Estimated 1RM calculation improvements
‍e1RM will now be calculated for any workout with 3 sets that have either 60% load spread OR a 0.25m/s velocity difference from the top to bottom sets.

Navigation upgrades

• Video settings accessible from set review
• Training preferences available during workouts
• Quick profile switching with forward/back buttons
• New full-screen coach mode athlete switcher
• Expanded template and training summaries

UI refresh

• Updated colors, spacing, and typography
• Refreshed set review page with trend analysis
• Smoother interactions with visual feedback for chart interactions
• New training summary including streak tracking
• Real-time feedback now available for all barbell exercises

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed video pinch-to-zoom functionality
• More consistent UI and terminology throughout the app
• Improved membership management and switching system
• Faster data loading across multiple views

What's new 🚨

Tempo Metronome
‍Take control of your lifting tempo with our new metronome feature. When recording your sets, you can now enable audio feedback to maintain consistent timing throughout your lifts. This feature is particularly valuable for controlled eccentrics and pauses on bodybuilding and volume exercises, helping you develop better lifting rhythm and control.

Italian Language Support
‍Ciao!

We're excited to welcome our Italian users with full app translation support. We've implemented complete Italian language integration throughout the app, ensuring a native language experience for our Italian users.

Improvements ✨

Enhanced 1RM Estimation
‍We've refined our e1RM calculator to show a result in more contexts. The system now shows estimates when you've recorded three or more sets, requiring either a 60% spread in weights or a 0.25m/s spread in best-rep mean velocities. This update means more workouts will display 1RM values, including sessions with smaller weight ranges.

Expanded Website Documentation
‍The Metric user guide is now available in more languages with the addition of Portuguese and Chinese translations. We've integrated direct in-app links that take you straight to the content in your preferred language, creating a seamless experience for our global community of athletes.

Training History Enhancement
Each workout now includes an overview card at the top, providing quick-glance statistics and key insights about your session.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Improvements to 4K video handling on the import feature to address crashing
• Fixed an issue with the RPE entry sheet that would sometimes not dismiss
• Fixes for translations and UI issues in Chinese, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese
• Improvements to the exercise list navigation, button display and logic when swapping exercises

What's new 🚨

Video Import
‍Metric now supports importing videos from your camera roll for analysis and processing. This feature allows you to:

• Import horizontal or vertical videos
• Use 1080p or 4k videos
• Import videos from digital cameras or other devices

For optimal results, we recommend using videos recorded at 60fps. Note: Slow-motion video is not recommended. Metric recording guidelines can be found at this link.

Add Imported Videos to Workout History
‍Enhance your existing workouts by adding imported video sets to your workout history. You can also start a new workout from an imported video, giving you the flexibility to record all your sets with your device's camera app and import them later.

Quick record
‍Sometimes you might not want to complete an entire workout, and just want to analyse 1-2 key sets. Thanks to the quick record option, you can do exactly this, directly from the home screen. Tap the record a set button, enter your exercise details and go straight to the Metric camera to start lifting.

Improvements ✨

Responsive Design for Accessibility and Smaller Devices
‍We've optimized Metric's interface for a better user experience across all devices:

• Improved handling for smaller phone screen sizes (iPhone SE and mini models)
• Enhanced support for large text when accessibility font sizes are active

Bug fixes 🐛

• Resolved an issue with the exercise multi-add feature that prevented adding multiple exercises to an in-progress workout
• Handled some teams bugs that were causing workouts and sets to occasionally to be attributed to the wrong athlete
• Fixed the case of the missing set videos when training with RPE
• Fixed some navigation and display issues when reviewing workouts and velocity data in training history
• Improved the responsiveness of hiding and un-hiding reps within a set
• Fixed a rare issue where highlight cards would not be displayed in the set review
• Addressed search bugs in the video library
• Enhanced loading speed for thumbnails in the video library

What's new 🚨

Coach and Family Plans
‍Metric now offers Pro subscriptions for Teams and coaches, as well as family plans. Train with your friends or manage your clients more effectively with these new subscription options.

Profile Pictures
‍Personalise your account by adding a profile picture. Set yours in the Training Profile tab within your account settings.

Improvements ✨

Pre-fill RPE for Future Sets
‍Plan your training exertion ahead of time by pre-filling your RPE (Rate of Perceived Exertion) or RIR (Reps in Reserve) numbers for today's workout.

Enhanced Tutorial Screens
‍We've refreshed the in-app Metric support pages with real-world images to guide you in finding the best recording position. You'll also find more practical tutorial screens and troubleshooting tips for when video recording might be misaligned.

Improved Exercise List Experience
Upgraded look and usability of the exercise list and improved interactions for a smoother multi-select experience when creating templates or while training.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Various minor elements have been refreshed and tweaked to improve the overall Metric experience.

What's new 🚨

Roster management in app (Pro)‍
Metric Coach account holders can now manage their athlete roster directly in the Metric app. Add, remove, and edit athletes in your roster all from your device with Coach Mode enabled.

Learn more about Teams here →

Improvements ✨

Tracking algorithm refactor‍
We've supercharged our tracking algorithm! It now runs up to 30% faster in some tests, performs better on older iPhone models, and offers improved reliability for both real-time feedback and post-set velocity data. Expect fewer outlier reps, less processing time, and fewer missed sets.

Athlete data loading in history and performance charts‍
Teams data now loads and refreshes more smoothly with Coach Mode enabled. Toggle between your athletes' data in both the training history and performance chart pages with ease.

Smoother template building‍
Creating the perfect workout template is now a breeze. We've improved animations, editing functions, and interactions in the workout template builder for a more seamless experience.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed a bug that hid the streaks number when you had a 0 week streak
• Improved tapability and interaction with number entry fields
• Improved animations and speed for the template builder
• Resolved an issue where entering RPE sometimes led to a training video not showing up
• Stability improvements for multi-athlete workouts

What's new 🚨

Training streaks
‍Keep your training consistent with a gentle nudge from the new streaks feature in Metric. Complete at least one workout every week to keep your training streak going.

Weekly training summary
‍The home workout page in Metric has been refreshed to show you some key stats as soon as you open the app. You can now see your weekly workout tally, new records set this week along with a recovery clock, showing you how many hours it has been since you last finished a workout.

Improvements ✨

Tempo tracking improvements
‍Thanks to user feedback we were able to make some further improvements to tempo tracking in Metric. Eccentric and pause tempo durations are now more reliable.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Minor cosmetic and speed optimisations throughout the app
• Improved empty state views for all pages where data might not yet be available.
• Improved behaviour for the keyboard during workouts, it now stays put allowing for faster entry of weights and reps.
• Reinstated the quick-add load buttons for incrementing your weights when logging a workout

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What's new 🚨

1RM estimation (Pro)
‍Metric now offers in-app, real-time one rep max (1RM) estimation on all your velocity tracked exercises. Simply train as normal and once you have completed 3 or more sets across a range of loads your estimated 1RM value will be shown. Use this to help calibrate your % based training, track progress or simply compete with your friends. Set a custom velocity target for your e1RM for each exercise in the exercise settings menu during your workout. Learn more about the 1RM feature here.

Performance page refresh (Pro)
A fresh look for the performance page in the app with seperate charts for each exercise. Track your progress on strength, power and 1RM based scorse, and select from a wider array of time frames to dive even deeper into your training history and performance over time.

Tonnage calculation (Pro)
See the total weight lifted for a given exercise during your workout with our new tonnage calculation feature, enabling better tracking of your training volume.

Time under tension calculation (Pro)
‍Measure the total time you complete for a given exercise with the new time under tension metric. This helps in understanding workout intensity, volume or work completed and planning recovery. Combined with tonnage, time under tension is a great number to keep an eye on for maximising hypertrophy and muscle growth.

Improvements ✨

Interactive charts
‍All charts within Metric are now interactive. Get a closer look at your training data by dragging on any chart to reveal more detailed insights.

Exercise settings (Pro)
‍Everything about your exercises can now be customised from one central hub. Set up your ideal training view, adjust 1RM velocity targets, and choose which data is displayed during your workout and in your set reviews. Find the exercise settings menu from the … menu button next to each exercise during an active workout.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Resolved Teams issues related to multi-athlete workouts.
• Made tweaks to the tracking algorithm to better handle sets with only one rep and other edge cases.
• Fixed a bug that stopped template notes being saved when updating a template after finishing a workout.
• Improved keyboard behaviour when completing active workouts.
• Backend enhancements for faster data loading, and a smoother display of training history.

What's new 🚨

Coach Mode Workout Templates (Teams)
‍Workout templates are now available for coaches with a Teams account. Start a workout from scratch or utilise a template when training in coach mode. Plus, share links to workout templates directly so your online clients can follow their program easily on their own device.

Delete Entire Workouts from History
‍Deleting an entire workout is now easier than ever. Navigate to your history and tap the delete button to remove a workout. Be careful, as this action cannot be undone!

Template Notes
‍Add notes to your workout templates. Use notes for helpful reminders to future you, or friends and clients. Notes are visible at the top of an active workout.

Exclusive Pro App Icons
‍Just for Pro users, we have created two new custom app icons. Find the Pro Gold Metric app icons in the Appearance settings menu!

Improvements ✨

Helpful exercise filtering
‍When adding exercises to workout templates, the list will filter and highlight the exercises in your workout so you can remember what is already included.

Updated Set Review page
‍Bigger video previews and larger set details make it easier to read at a glance. Easily export your videos to your camera roll with a new save button front and center.

Unified styling
‍This update improves the app styling making everything just a little easier on the eyes. Users with accessibility fonts enabled on their device will now have a much smoother experience, with text being clearer than ever.

One-rep set tracking improved
‍Metric would sometimes miss singles. Thanks to our powerlifters helping track down this issue with example videos, missed singles should be a thing of the past.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Fixed a weird visual issue when expanding and collapsing exercise cards on the workout page
• Fixed a funky thing that would cause an active workout to not fill the entire screen - now it always fills the entire screen
• Bumped the keyboard a touch so that the current set row and the next row are both visible. A small thing that makes entering your weights at least 3x faster
• The weight and rep details from your last set now get passed into a new set during a workout more reliably.

What's new 🚨

Exercise multi-select
‍You can now add exercises to your workout or template in bulk without having to go back and forth from the exercise list. Simply enable multi-select and add all your exercises in one go.

Template sharing (Pro)
‍Share your favourite workout templates with friends or clients, making it easy to collaborate on training programs. Perfect for online coaches using Metric Teams to program for their clients or for friends who enjoy training together.

Improvements ✨

Drag to reorder exercises in active workouts
‍Customise your workout order in real-time by dragging and dropping exercises within an active workout. This gives you complete control over your training session sequencing.

Bug fixes 🐛

There is a lot going on behind the scenes at Metric VBT as we improve and optimise the app for the growing number of people who use us in their training, as a result a number of minor bugs came up recently. Many of these should now be squashed, thanks to everyone who pointed these out!

• Fixed a refresh issue with the load velocity profiles to ensure smooth updates
• Improved keyboard behaviour when tapping between fields during a workout or when building a template for a seamless user experience
• Fixed an issue that occasionally caused a single video to show up twice in the library
• Better handling for 0-set exercises in your workout history after training from a template, keeping your records clean and relevant
• Resolved an issue around auto-completed workouts being missing from history

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What's new 🚨

Workout templates (Pro)
‍You can can now build & save workouts as templates ready for your next training session. This drastically improves the efficiency of logging your workouts. Templates are feature rich, and have the ability to be updated after a workout, duplicate, archive, and edit existing workout templates to train exactly how you want. Coaches: Workout templates for Teams coming soon!

Exercise swapping
‍Switch an exercise out of your current workout for a different movement, giving you the flexibility to adapt your workout on the fly. This is only available for exercises without any completed sets.

Improvements ✨

Free users can now complete full workouts
‍All users of the Metric app can now complete and review an entire workout, including both velocity-tracked and manual entry exercises.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Numerous small and cosmetic improvements throughout the app.