MyWorkoutTracker · Setup Guide
How to create an account and set up MyWorkoutTracker the way you actually train — your equipment, your days, your structure — plus what the app does with your data once you're logging sessions. This guide doesn't explain how to perform any exercise.
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Every visit starts with an email, then a PIN — no usernames to remember.
Enter your email on the landing screen. If it's not recognized, you'll see a link to create an account: name, email, and a 4-digit PIN you choose yourself. That PIN is what unlocks your data from then on — nobody else's name or email is ever shown to you, and yours isn't shown to anyone else.
This browser remembers who you are and takes you straight to your PIN prompt — you won't need to type your email again on the same device. Using a different device, or want to switch to someone else's account on a shared device? Tap Not you? to go back to the email screen.
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Right after you register — or the first time you log in if you skipped it — you'll land in the setup wizard. It runs in this order:
Check off everything you actually have access to: Barbell + plates, Dumbbells, Kettlebells, Resistance bands, Bodyweight (pull-up bar, dips, floor work), Gym machines (cable/selectorized), or Cardio (bike, treadmill). You can select more than one. Training at a full commercial gym? I train at a commercial gym — check everything selects every equipment type and inventory in one tap, rather than clicking through each one.
Each category you check opens its own inventory card, so the app works from what you actually own:
Pick how you want a session to play out:
| Circuit | Do one set of the first exercise, one set of the next, and so on — then loop back for a second set of each, and a third. Sets of different exercises are interleaved. |
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| Straight sets | Finish every set of the first exercise before moving to the second. One exercise at a time, start to finish. |
This is one setting for your whole program, not something you choose separately per day.
Choose how many distinct workout days you want — up to 6 — and name each one (anything you like: Push Day, Day 1, Legs). Every day is configured independently, so one day can have five exercises and another can have two; nothing has to match across days. You can also add a separate MAX day for occasional max-effort testing, kept apart from the regular rotation.
Not sure where to start? Build me a starter program fills in however many days you chose with sensible compound exercises from your equipment, at light starting weights — you can then adjust anything before saving.
Any day can optionally have one main lift — a single exercise that follows the 5/3/1 method: a percentage of your training max (see glossary), cycling through a 4-week wave (5s → 3s → 1s → deload) that gradually increases over time. If you turn this on, you'll pick the lift from the barbell exercises available for that purpose and enter a starting training max. A day doesn't need a main lift at all — it's entirely optional, and you can mix days that have one with days that don't.
Everything else on a day is an accessory: pick an exercise from the list (filtered to the equipment you checked off in step 1), then choose:
Add as many accessories to a day as you want, in any order, and remove any you change your mind about before saving.
If you checked cardio equipment in step 1, each day also gets a Cardio section. Add a piece of equipment to a day and pick what you want to track for it — distance, time, calories burned, or any combination. During a workout it's logged once per session, alongside your lifts, and the card shows what you did last time. A day can mix lifting and cardio, or be all cardio — a designated cardio day is just a day with nothing else on it.
Cardio doesn't have to be planned, either: on any workout day, an Add cardio today checkbox sits just under the vitals card. Tick it, pick from your cardio equipment, and log distance, time, or calories for this session only — it lands in your history with the rest of the workout.
The last screen saves everything and takes you straight into today's workout. Nothing here is permanent — see below. Curious what a session looks like from there? Watch a workout being logged.
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Nothing from the wizard is locked in.
Open Settings → Edit my program to re-open the same wizard, pre-filled with your current setup. Change your equipment, flow style, day count, main lift, or accessories at any point — your workout history and personal records stay exactly as they are; only the program structure going forward changes.
Clearing your data (Settings → Clear all saved data) resets your logged history and progress, but leaves your program setup and tracking preferences untouched — it won't send you back through the wizard.
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A handful of Settings cards let you nudge specific numbers without re-opening the whole wizard.
Edit any main lift's training max directly. Underneath, a recap of exactly how the app moves numbers on its own: your bench (or other 5/3/1 lift) training max adjusts automatically on the last day of week 3, based on your AMRAP set — 10+ reps jumps it 10 lbs, 5–9 reps jumps it 5 lbs, under 5 holds it where it is. This TM jump always runs; it isn't affected by the auto-increase toggle below, which only governs accessories.
Two cards for overriding a specific accessory by hand: Rep targets changes what counts as a hit for a given set (normally only touched automatically once you're maxed out on weight — see below), and Starting weights changes where set 1 begins, recalculating the rest of that exercise's sets up the ladder the same way the program builder originally did.
Manually set which day, 5/3/1 week, and workout-of-3 you're currently on. Mostly a recovery tool — useful if a skipped session or an edit to your program left things pointing somewhere you didn't expect.
Not a Settings card — a 🎯 Focus toggle right on the workout screen, next to the day tabs. Narrows the screen to just the exercise you're currently on, in large type, hiding everything else until you log it. Toggle it off any time to see the whole day again.
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Three independent toggles, all in one place.
Blood pressure and pulse, before and after a session. On by default. Turn it off in Settings → Tracking and the card disappears from your workout screen entirely.
A simple weigh-in log. Off by default — switch it on in the same place to add a body-weight field to your workout screen. Either or both feed a combined trend chart on the History tab, where you can toggle which lines are visible.
Auto-increase weight when top set target is hit is what actually moves an accessory's weight up (or back down) between sessions — off by default. The first time you turn it on, you'll get a one-time confirmation to accept: that you're physically able to handle gradual load increases, that you'll use your own judgment on any calculated weight, and that the app only tracks and calculates numbers — it isn't medical or coaching advice, and it doesn't teach exercise technique. Turn it off any time; your existing weights just stop moving on their own from then on.
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Every session you log feeds a muscle map on the workout screen and four things on the History tab, all updating themselves — nothing here needs to be turned on or configured.
At the bottom of the Today screen, a front-and-back body diagram colors in the muscle groups your logged sets have touched — dark for untouched, brightening to orange as a group accumulates sets, scaled against whichever group got the most work that day. It fills in as you log, so mid-session it doubles as a quick "what's left" check. The groups come from each exercise's primary movers; it's a broad-strokes picture of where the day's work went, not an anatomy chart.
Total weight moved, filtered by exercise (or All exercises) and by time period — today, this week, this month, this year, or all time. Big numbers get a lighter touch alongside the raw figure: total volume is shown next to a rough real-world comparison (a grand piano, a Honda Civic, an African elephant — whatever the total is closest to), scaling up to genuinely absurd comparisons at lifetime totals.
Pick a single exercise and a trend appears: a straight-line fit through your logged weight for that lift over time (training max for a 5/3/1 main lift, top working-set weight for everything else), showing whether you're climbing, holding steady, or declining, with 4- and 8-week projections. Set a target date and it'll project the weight it expects you to hit by then, based on the same trend line.
Below that, a volume breakdown by workout day — useful for spotting whether one day is carrying more total work than the others.
A plain list, newest first: date, day name, week/workout number, training max, and AMRAP reps where applicable. Vitals and body weight readings from that session show underneath, when you tracked them. Any cardio logged that session — programmed or ad-hoc — shows here too.
The app tracks a few different kinds of "best" per exercise, and only shows the ones that apply: top single-set weight, top single-set volume (reps × weight), and — for AMRAP sets — the best AMRAP performance by volume. Each comes with the date it was set. Your single best session by total volume moved gets its own line at the top, with the same lift-equivalent comparison as the Stats total.
PRs aren't something you check for manually — hit one mid-workout and a toast pops up on the spot to tell you, gold-colored for a session-volume PR, blue for anything else.
Twenty badges, unlocked automatically as you train — no way to trigger one deliberately, they just happen. They cover four different things: session count (first session through a 100-session Century Club), consecutive-session streaks (3, 5, and 10 in a row — the streak count also shows as a chip next to today's workout while it's active), single-session and lifetime volume thresholds, and PR frequency on a single exercise. Tap a badge on the History tab to see what it takes to unlock; locked ones are dimmed but not hidden, so you can see what's still ahead.
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A gym with no signal doesn't stop a workout — and the app can live on your home screen like any other.
Once you've logged in on a device, the app keeps working without a connection. Lose signal mid-session and nothing changes — sets keep logging, the muscle map keeps filling in, and a banner appears to note you're offline. Everything saves to the device and syncs to the server on its own the moment you're back online; there's no button to press.
Closing and reopening the app with no connection also works: you'll get the usual PIN prompt, and entering your PIN loads the copy of your data saved on that device. The one thing that genuinely needs a connection is the first login on a new device — until then, there's nothing local to unlock.
The app installs like any other: on Android/Chrome, use the browser menu's Add to Home Screen (or the install prompt if one appears); on iPhone/iPad, open the app in Safari, tap the share button, and choose Add to Home Screen. Either way you get a proper icon and the app opens full-screen, without browser chrome.
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Don't see something you use, or want something to work differently? Three ways to ask.
For gear you own that isn't listed, the fastest path is the Build your own row in the wizard's inventory cards (see step 1) — you get it immediately, and naming it files the review request for you. Beyond that, Settings has Suggest an exercise and Suggest new equipment. Approved exercise suggestions show up in the wizard's picker for everyone; a genuinely new equipment category still needs changes behind the scenes, since each category has its own progression logic.
For anything broader than a missing exercise or piece of gear — a feature you'd like, something confusing, a bug — there's a separate Feature request tab alongside Today, History, and Settings. Same idea as the suggestion forms, just not tied to a specific exercise or equipment item.
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Terms you'll hit while configuring, defined at the level you need to set them up — not how to perform them.