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Tracking my lifts without another gym app

Spencer Pauly
Spencer Pauly
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Tracking my lifts without another gym app

I've been going to the gym consistently for a couple years, and the tracking part never stuck. Every lifting app wants an account, a subscription, and a tour of its features before it'll let me write down that I did five reps at 185.

So I built the smallest version of what I actually needed. It's a progressive web app, so it sits on my home screen like a normal app. I open it, tap through my exercises, and log reps and weight. That's it.

The data goes into Airtable. That sounds like a strange choice for a database, but it means my workout history is a spreadsheet I can open and edit like a spreadsheet. When I want to change something, I don't need to build an admin panel. I just go look at the rows.

It's free and it works on anything with a browser: widgets.spencerpauly.com/lifting.