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Hevy – #1 Workout Tracker & Planner Gym Log App

FEATURE

Track Exercise Performance

Explore how Hevy allows you to track your exercise performance on any activity you’ve logged in the app. This includes a complete history visualized on graphs and highlights of personal records.

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an overview some exercise performance metrics users can access when they open any exercise in the Hevy library

A Quick Overview of Hevy’s Exercise Library

Navigate to the Profile tab and tap the grey Exercises button below Dashboard. This will take you to the app’s exercise library, where you can search through the 400+ movements and all the custom activities you’ve created.

Recently logged exercises appear at the top, and you can scroll down to your custom movements:

Alternatively, use the search field and filters for available equipment and muscle targets to narrow your search results:

How to Monitor Exercise Performance

Tap on any exercise in the library for additional details. (You can also access the information while building a routine or logging a live gym session by tapping the movement’s name.) The summary section displays your performance on a graph; you can show data from the last three months, year, or all time.

You can tap on different metrics to display them on the graph.

Below, Hevy displays your records for the movement, including the heaviest weight used, your true or projected 1RM, and your best set and session volume.

Under Set Records, you can see the most amount of weight you’ve lifted for a given number of reps:

an overview of personal best performances for an individual exercise in the Hevy app

For bodyweight exercises, it shows the most reps you’ve done in a set and workout.

For duration-based activities, Hevy displays your best time.

And for cardio exercises, you can monitor your distances and best times.

How to Monitor Workout Performance

Another option is to navigate to the History tab at the top to see all the workouts in which you’ve done the specific exercise.

You can scroll through the workouts to see your strength performance from session to session on just that movement. For more details, tap the workout’s name or the arrow icon on the right to see the whole session and the other exercises you’ve done.

This is a great way to access more details that add context and help you understand your training performance. 

For instance, you might notice that you’ve been lifting slightly less weight for fewer reps on the lat pulldown in the last five or ten workouts. But as you tap and explore older and current workouts, you might notice that you’ve been doing the lat pulldown third or fourth, whereas you previously did it near the start of your sessions. 

That insight can help you better understand how fatigue adds up and affects your performance. More importantly, having access to that information can keep you from getting discouraged.

Exercise Instructions & Demo

The How to tab on the top right provides useful information for each exercise. Most movements come with a demonstrational animation to help you understand proper form. Below, you have written step-by-step instructions on proper setup, technique, and bracing.

You can also access this and the other sections while logging a workout by tapping on any movement’s name. Doing so won’t pause or discard the session.

WORK OUT. TRACK PROGRESS. SOCIALIZE.

Whether you’re a regular person, competitive bodybuilder, or athlete, Hevy allows you to log sessions, track progress, and socialize.

Log Workouts

Marking workout sets as complete in Hevy app

Analyze Your Results

A look at the Hevy app's progress-tracking options

Engage With Others

An overview of Hevy's social aspect

El-jefe-kyle

5/5

Best workout tracking app

This is by far my favorite workout tracking app. You can tell that the creators work out themselves because they know how important it is to be able to label drop sets, failure sets, supersets, etc. It allows me to track everything I need. When if it’s been a while since I did an exercise I can easily take a look at my history.

Outthere18

5/5

Kept Me Accountable

I have been using this app since January. I love it. It’s the thing that had kept me in the gym this year because it helps me see results. I love how it syncs with my watch and I can input the weight and reps on my watch or phone. I appreciate that it supplies workouts for different splits so I don’t need to pay for a trainer. I love how it holds the last rep and weight from the previous time I did the exercise.

mc_______

5/5
Really helpful illustrations

My focus now is on building functional strength to avoid injuries as I age. Coming back to lifting as an adult with moderate gym anxiety, the Hevy app has helped me track progress on my weights and allowed me to make intelligent choices about increasing the amount I’m lifting. I really appreciate the illustrations and animations that help me learn new movements.

The library has more than 400 relevant exercises for people primarily interested in resistance training, but you can also add custom exercises with all the necessary details. The library offers a mix of weighted, bodyweight, and cardio activities you can do with dumbbells, barbells, weight plates, kettlebells, gym machines, resistance bands, suspension kits, or no equipment.
Hevy highlights your personal records like the heaviest weight lifted, true or projected 1RM, best set and session volume, and the most weight you’ve lifted for a given number of reps. You can also monitor reps done, duration, and distance on some exercises and see all that information on graphs.
Hevy’s free plan allows you to display data on any exercise from the last three months, whereas Hevy Pro (only $2.99 monthly) provides access to your performance metrics from as far back as you want.
Aside from having access to your records when you examine your performance on individual exercises, Hevy notifies you in real-time when you achieve a new PR, just as you mark the set as complete. The information is also available on the summary screen when you complete a workout.
Yes, so long as you’ve categorized your exercises accordingly and have logged them in at least a few sessions, you can see and monitor your progress over time, just as you would for any movement from Hevy’s library.