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Wearables are convenient. They are not the thing that makes a plan work. Four numbers, logged by hand, cover almost everything the portal needs.
The four numbers that matter
- Sessions completed. Adherence is the strongest predictor of whether any programme works. It is also the easiest thing to log.
- Load and reps. What you lifted and how many times. This is what tells the plan whether to progress you.
- Session difficulty. A one-to-ten rating after each workout. Crude, subjective, and remarkably good at catching accumulating fatigue.
- Body weight, weekly. Same day, same conditions, plotted as a rolling average.
What a wearable adds
Continuous heart rate, sleep staging and step counts are genuinely useful context, and the portal will use them if you have them. But none of them change the shape of your programme in the way the four numbers above do.
Logging habits that stick
- Log during the session, not after. Between-set rest is dead time anyway.
- Weigh yourself on the same morning each week, before eating.
- Rate the session before you leave the gym, while the memory is honest.
- Do not backfill a missed week from memory. Leave the gap and move on.
Reading your own data
Look at three data points before you conclude anything. A single heavy session, one bad weigh-in or one missed workout is noise. Three weeks of the same direction is a signal, and that is the point at which the plan, or your intake, should change.
General guidance for healthy adults, not medical or dietetic advice. If you have a health condition or are unsure whether an approach suits you, speak to a qualified professional.
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