Hevy’s Set Types
By default, individual sets you add to any exercise in Hevy are labeled as normal sets. However, you can also label them as:
- Warm Up Set – when using sets to prepare your body
- Failure Set – you can label a set as such when you reach muscular failure and cannot do more reps without experiencing a breakdown in form
- Drop Set – this is a technique where you reach muscular failure with a specific weight and immediately reduce the load to do some additional repetitions, again reaching failure
How to Mark Sets by Type
Once you’ve added an exercise to a routine (reusable workout template) or live workout (with the stopwatch active on the top left), you can add as many sets as you want by tapping the grey + Add Set button.
Then, tap the number next to the set under the SET column to reveal the menu. It will allow you to change the type of any set. You can use one set type or multiple in any exercise you’ve added to a workout.
Drop Sets & The Automatic Rest Timer
The automatic rest timer doesn’t start if the next set is labeled as a Drop Set, indicated as blue D on the left. This creates a more seamless logging experience since the goal of drop sets is to do them with no rest in between.
For example, let’s say you want to do a drop set as your last set of cable pushdowns. You can have two or three normal sets and label one or several consecutive sets as Drop Sets, depending on how many times you want to reduce the weight before taking a break.
You can have one normal set and one drop set if you only wish to reduce the weight once, or one normal set with two, three, or even four drop sets if you want to continue training the muscle and push it beyond failure with lighter weights.
The Benefits of Set Types
Leveraging set types is a straightforward way to add depth and details to workouts. You can do so while building reusable routines or logging live sessions.
The advantage is that you get additional training data when reviewing your progress later. Instead of using the custom workout notes to add clarifications like “I took the last 2 sets to failure,” you can simply label them as such to save time.
