log the training, not the app.
lifting logs, run records, rest timers and weight charts — shaped around the way you actually train.
what could i track about training?
01 / what this isevery training app is built for someone else. it wants your email, it nags you about a streak, it hides the one number you care about behind two taps and a paywall, and it has opinions about your program that you did not ask for. what you usually want is smaller than an app: a page that knows your lifts, or your route, or the four things you do on a tuesday, and gets out of the way.
that is what these recipes make. you describe how you train — the exercises, the units, the way you like to see last week while you are doing this week — and your assistant writes one html page that does exactly that and nothing else. no account, no onboarding, no notification you have to turn off. it opens on your phone at the gym the same way it opens on your laptop.
two honest things before you start. a page like this keeps what you enter in the browser you enter it in, so your phone and your laptop are two separate logs unless you export and import between them — every recipe here says so on the page and every prompt asks for an export button. and a page published without an account is public for 24 hours; claiming it is how a training log survives past thursday.
in this cluster.
02 / 7 recipesyour lifts, your numbers, one page.
keep a lifting log that knows your program and shows last week while you do this week
the workout you actually do.
track the workouts you actually do, in the units they actually come in
ninety seconds, then go again.
time your rest between sets without unlocking a fitness app
every run in one place.
keep a running log with routes, paces and weekly mileage, and nothing else
watch the trend, not the day.
chart body weight over time and see the moving trend, not the daily noise
write down what you ate.
log what you eat in your own words, with your own portions and your own meals
count the glasses, not the app.
count water through the day with one tap and no account
questions.
03 / questionswill my data be there next week?
yes, if you use the same browser on the same device and do not clear site data. the page saves as you go, and reloading it brings everything back. it is not synced anywhere, so a second device starts empty — the export and import buttons every recipe asks for are how you move a log between them.
can i put it on my phone home screen?
yes, but that is your browser doing it rather than anything we provide. in safari, open the page, tap share, then add to home screen; chrome on android has the same thing under its menu. you get an icon that opens the page full screen. it is still a web page — nothing is installed and nothing runs in the background.
is this private?
the page is public to anyone who has the url, so treat it as readable rather than secret. what you type into it stays in your own browser and never reaches us — we store the html you published, not the sets you logged. still worth thinking about before you put anything on it you would not want a stranger reading.
what if i want it to work differently?
say so and it gets rewritten. that is the whole difference from an app: you are not choosing between the settings someone else exposed. "track rpe too", "kilos not pounds", "show me last week next to today", "drop the warmup rows" — each of those is one sentence and a republish to the same url.