BarbellForm

Guides

Why this weight

Your program decides each lift’s weight from what you actually did. The app shows you the reasoning, one step at a time.

  1. Tap ⓘ beside an exercise

    On Today, each exercise has an ⓘ. Tap it to see why its weight is what it is, in plain words: “Up 2.5 kg: you completed every set in session 1.” Each step names the rule and the session that caused it.

    Why this weight for an exercise: its starting weight and the increases after each session.

  2. How 5×5 Linear A/B decides

    Two workouts alternate, three sessions a week. A is squat, bench press and barbell row; B is squat, overhead press and deadlift.

    • Every set met: the lift goes up 2.5 kg (5 lb) next time.
    • A set missed: the weight stays the same, and you try again.
    • Three sessions in a row missing a set at the same weight: the lift drops 10%, rounded down to something you can load, and climbs again from there.

  3. Every device agrees

    The next session is worked out from your program and your log, the same way on your phone, your watch and any other phone you sync. If you log on the watch at the gym, the phone shows the same next weights when they’re back together.

    Other programs have their own rules, written into the program itself. The ⓘ explains whichever rules your program uses: a new set scheme, a training max, a deload.