Starting a new workout
Metric is more than just a velocity tracking app. It also supports complete training diary functionality thanks to the workout builder.
Logging your training is easy and designed to be as efficient as possible, allowing you to record velocity and review their performance data for barbell lifts while also manually completing your non-barbell exercises as well.
To start, simply tap the Start a workout button on the Workout page in the app. This will open a blank workout for you to begin training from an empty template.
From here, you can add exercises from the in-built library, create your own custom exercises, record velocity, log RPE/RIR and manually complete sets for your training session.
Some additional features to take advantage of:
- Drag and drop any exercise to reorder your training session
- Swipe left on any set that you want to delete from the session
- Tap the exercise name to expand/collapse the exercise details as you train (collapsing exercises once you have completed them is a great way to keep your session organised).
- Sometimes, you will want to manually complete a set even on an exercise that has velocity tracking enabled. To do this long press on the camera button and select Mark complete.
Save and finish your workout
When you have completed your entire workout, tap the Finish workout button. This will take you to the workout summary, providing an overview of any new personal record, all sets with a velocity trend, and a list of the exercises completed.
Tap Save and end workout once you are happy and the workout will save to your history.
Metric auto-complete all workouts after 6 hours of inactivity, ensuring your workout data is always saved to the correct date.
Workout template builder
Metric has a workout template feature, allowing you to build, edit and share your own workout templates — helping you plan and organise your training program in advance.
Workout templates are available with a Pro or Teams membership only.
Create a template
To start, press the Create a template button or the New button to open a new template. Give your template a name to help you remember the workout and add some training notes. These could be coaching cues, progression instructions, warm up or cool down reminders, etc.
Next, add your exercises to the workout, I recommend using the search and multi-select functions in the exercise list to add exercises rapidly, you can always drag to reorder the exercises after they have been added.
Next add your sets and reps for each exercise and press Save template to add this new template to your library.
Now that you have a template, you can start a new workout by tapping on this template to pre-load your exercises, sets, reps and weights into an active workout.
Managing templates
Templates have a range of additional features available for you to enhancing your training flow.
- Edit templates - Easily edit any template as you need to suit your evolving program
- Duplicate templates - Duplicate a template and use it as the framework for creating your next workout plan
- Share templates - Share your latest workout creation with friends or clients directly from the Metric app. Your notes, exercises, sets and reps will be imported on their device. Recipient will need to be a Metric Pro/Teams member as well.
- Update templates from a live workout - When you finish a workout that started from a template you will be presented with some options before finishing and saving your current workout. Save workout & update template to have all changes made to the current workout reflected in the original template, Save workout & create new template to add a brand new template to your templates library, or save workout only to leave the template as it originally was with all changes being specific to this current workout only.