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Sets and reps in the gym, runs and rides outside, and the food that fuelled both — on the same screen instead of in three different apps.
Most people end up with a lifting app, a running app and a food app, none of which know about each other. NutriMacro logs strength training, GPS activities and food together, so a hard week reads as one story rather than three disconnected ones.
Separate tools each hold a piece of the answer. The lifting app knows your volume is up. The running app knows your mileage doubled. The food app knows you ate the same as always. None of them can tell you that's why you're exhausted — because none of them can see the other two.
Put them together and ordinary questions become answerable. Did the week you added 20% volume come with any extra food? Is the plateau a training problem or a fuelling one? Did the bad session follow a bad night?
Logging a set should take two taps between sets, not a minute of typing. Your previous performance on that exercise sits right there as you go, so you know what to beat without scrolling through history. A rest timer runs between sets, a plate calculator works out what to load on the bar, and routines you save are reusable, so a session starts from your own template rather than a blank screen.
What matters over time is volume — sets × reps × weight — and whether it trends up. A single session tells you almost nothing; six weeks of volume tells you whether progressive overload is actually happening or whether you've been doing the same three sets of ten since spring. The app charts that per lift and per muscle group, tracks personal records and estimated 1RM, and flags a stalled bench before it becomes three stalled months.
Hevy, Strong and JEFIT are good at exactly this and stop here. They can show you that your volume fell off a cliff in week five. What none of them can show you is that you also ate 400 calories a day less that week, because they have no idea what you ate.
That's the difference between a training log and a training answer. A plateau has two common causes — you're not training hard enough, or you're not eating enough to recover from what you're doing — and a workout-only app can only ever see one of them.
Activities record with the phone's GPS — distance, pace, splits, elevation, route. No watch required, though one adds heart rate and recovery data if you have it.
Splits are where most people learn something: almost everyone starts too fast. Seeing kilometre three at 20 seconds slower than kilometre one, week after week, changes how you pace far more effectively than any advice.
Sleep, resting heart rate and heart-rate variability sit alongside the training log, because they're what determine whether a hard week produces adaptation or just fatigue. Two identical training weeks can have opposite outcomes depending on what happened overnight.
Exercise names, activity types, the whole interface — the app follows your phone's language across 108 countries. Training vocabulary is exactly where a half-translated app becomes annoying: nobody wants to work out whether "Kniebeuge" is what they think it is mid-set.
Yes — that's the entire point of this one. Food, lifting and activities share the same day, so you can read them together.
No. Sets are logged by hand and runs use phone GPS. A watch adds heart rate and recovery detail but isn't required.
Watch volume and weight-at-reps trend upward across weeks rather than judging individual sessions, which vary far too much to read. Personal records and estimated 1RM give you the same picture from a different angle.
If you only want a gym log, the dedicated lifting apps are excellent and you should use one. NutriMacro is the better choice when you want the training log and the food log to explain each other — sets, runs, sleep and meals in one place rather than four.
Get NutriMacro — or read how to log the food side accurately.
