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Ways to log training

Live in the gym, import history, or fill in afterwards.

Forma records a session in three ways: log it set by set while you lift, import the history from the app you are switching from, or add a missed session afterwards. All three become normal sessions in one History, and the coach plans from that History.

When to use it

  • You have your phone with you on the gym floor and a few seconds between sets.
  • You are switching from another app and have months of workouts worth keeping.
  • The phone stayed in the locker, or you lost track of the session, and you still want the day on record.
  • Your old app can export a CSV, and you would rather not start your numbers from zero.

Logging live in the gym

Logging works with no signal.

  1. On Train, tap Start. It carries the session's name, for example Start Push. Your lifts are listed with their sets and reps.
  2. Tap a lift to open it. The weight and reps are filled in from last time or from the plan. Change anything that was different.
  3. Tap Log set 1, then Log set 2, and so on.
  4. Forma asks one question: How many more could you have done? Tap 0, 1-2 or 3+. Tap Skip if you would rather not say.
  5. The rest timer starts. When it ends, tap the next set and log it. Tap Another set if you did one more than planned.

When the last set is logged, you go back to the list of lifts. Warm-up sets are marked W1, W2 and never count as volume, recovery or records.

Importing your history

Most training apps can export your history as a CSV file. Forma reads that file on your phone, matches your exercises to its own lifts, and adds the workouts to History. Nothing is uploaded.

  1. In your other app, look for Export data, Export workouts or Download my data. It is usually in Settings or Profile. Choose CSV if it asks for a format, and save the file to Files or iCloud Drive, or share it to this phone.
  2. Open Settings, then Import workout history. On an empty Train screen, you can get there under Import workouts instead.
  3. Tap Choose a file and pick the CSV.
  4. Check the preview: how many workouts and sets, the date range, and the weight unit. If the file does not say kilograms or pounds, Forma asks once.
  5. For each exercise Forma could not place, make the choice: match it to one of Forma's lifts, keep it as its own lift, or skip it. Forma remembers your answers for next time.
  6. Tap Import. When it finishes, tap Done to see the workouts in History.

Filling in afterwards

Forgot to log, or could not use the phone that day? A missed session can still go on record.

  1. Tap the clock button at the top right of Train to open History & reports.
  2. Open History and tap the plus button (Add a missed session). Pick the day: today or any of the last three weeks.
  3. Choose a lift, enter the sets you remember, and save. It shows in that day's session without a duration.

You can also correct existing sessions. Open one in History, tap a set, and change its weight or reps, or tap Delete set. Deleting a session asks first and cannot be undone.

Good to know

  • Imported sessions are marked as imported. They set your starting weights and recovery. Your own logged sessions count for more as you add them.
  • Imported workouts are normal workouts. You can correct a set or delete a session in History, like one you logged yourself.
  • The import leaves out cardio rows with no reps.
  • Set notes in the file are not kept; the sets themselves are.
  • Changing past sets changes your recovery readings, your next weights and your insights, so they follow what you really did.

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