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HeavyTrack Support

Getting Started

  • Installing HeavyTrack — Download HeavyTrack from the App Store, what it costs, and using it offline.
  • Onboarding — The questions the app asks on first launch, and the training program it offers to build for you.

Planning

  • Plans Tab — Your workout plans, archiving and deleting them, and the three ways to build a new one.
  • Custom Exercises — Create an exercise from scratch or duplicate a built-in exercise, customize the variation, and find your user-added exercises.

Training

  • Workout Session View — All the exercises of your workout session on a single page.
  • Workout Exercise View — The details of a single exercise in your current workout session.
  • Set List — The set rows for one exercise in a workout session and the controls available around them.
  • Adjust Exercise Settings — Replace an exercise, change its equipment variant, or configure its coaching settings during a workout.
  • In-workout coaching — The weight and reps the coach recommends for each set, and how to accept them.
  • Exercise History Section — The history section on an exercise, and the types of data you can graph.
  • Focus Metric — Show a metric such as e1RM on every set row in the Workout view.

Recovery

  • Muscle Fatigue — See which muscles are rested, recovering, or accumulating too much fatigue.

Glossary

  • Deload — A planned easy period that lets the fatigue from weeks of hard training clear.
  • Double Progression — Add reps first; add weight once you reach the top of your rep range.
  • e1RM — Estimated 1 Rep Max — what it means and where to see it in HeavyTrack.
  • Exercise Rating — A personal reminder that also influences exercise selection in the Smart Plan Builder.
  • Focus Metric — A metric shown on every set row — what it is and where to set it.
  • Logical Day — HeavyTrack's day runs from the cutoff time to the same time next morning — not midnight to midnight.
  • Mesocycle — A block of six to twelve microcycles, ending in a deload before the program changes.
  • Microcycle — One repetition of your training days — usually a week, but not necessarily.
  • PREV Column — The PREV column shows what you did for that set last time — weight × reps.
  • Progression Charts — The charts that show how your performance on an exercise changes over time.
  • Progressive Overload — Asking a little more of a muscle over time, so it keeps getting stronger.
  • RIR — Reps In Reserve — how many more reps you could still have done when you ended the set.
  • RPE — Rate of Perceived Exertion — how hard a set felt, from 1 to 10.
  • Set Volume — Weight × reps for one set. Total volume adds up every set in the session.
  • Training Program — How a training program is structured: training days, exercises, sets and reps.
  • Training Split — How you divide your body across the training days of the week.
  • Work Set — The main sets of an exercise — done at or near your maximum load.
  • Workout Routine — A planned series of exercises, in order, with their sets and settings — one day inside a workout program.
  • Workout Set Type — The four kinds of set you can do in a workout: warmup, work, drop and deload.

Privacy

  • App Privacy Policy — How HeavyTrack handles workout data, anonymous app analytics, and optional CloudKit sync.
  • Website Privacy Policy — How the HeavyTrack website handles analytics, waitlist submissions, and support messages.