Hevy - Workout Tracker Gym Log 4+

This is by far my favorite workout tracking app, and I’ve tried quite a few over the past year including the popular Strong app. You can tell that the creators of this app actually work out themselves because they know how important it is to be able to label drop sets, failure sets, supersets, etc, which you can do very easily within the app. It allows me to track everything I need, and when if it’s been a while since I did an exercise I can easily take a look at my history, view graphs of my strength progression over time, and so on.

I started out with the free version but have since upgraded to the Lifetime membership because I needed to create more than 5 custom exercises since I do quite a few unusual calisthenics things, but most gym-goers can probably stick with the free version and have everything they need.

The social feature - being able to follow other members - is also nice. That said, I wish there was a way to upload short video clips of workout sets so that there would be some somewhat verifiable proof of what people are lifting, rather than just having to blindly accept the weight people enter into the app as being true. But, this isn’t that important. The important thing for me is that this app allows me to easily track every aspect of my workout so that I can see my progression and know where I’m at.

I’m incredibly impressed with Hevy. This app helped me elevate my lifts to the next level. After two years of consistently lifting, I started to see plateaus in my strength and hypertrophy - and the main culprit was a lack of consistent progressive overload. I’ve tried Excel spreadsheets and notebooks to track my workouts, but neither solution compared to the ease of use that Hevy offers. Now I can track my workouts consistently and update/create routines for my PPL splits (and variations of them). My favorite features are the “medal system” that lets me know when new goals are hit and the massive database of exercises to program into my routines. I also appreciate the statistical insights to my weekly volume/reps. This helped me recognize the disparity in volume between my push and pull muscle groups, and I’ve experienced and all-around improvement in my progress after just one month of using Hevy. If you’re like me, you probably have been tracking your calories and macros for a while now (with MacroFactor). Now tracking your workouts just as dutifully has never been so easy. Thank you, Hevy!!

When I started working out. I use to not log any of my workouts, then as I was getting frustrated with my progress one of my gym brethren told me I need to be logging all my workouts and trying to get better everyday. That’s when I found… the notes app. It was a grueling process and it became a jumble of numbers and abbreviations that only me and me alone could read. I knew I needed a change, that’s when I found… a bunch of useless apps that made me pay 25$ a month just to put in more than one workout routine. Then finally I found Hevy. After opening the app for the first time I knew I found a winner. I could have up to 3 routines which was perfect for the program I was running. Then I found out that it tracks my progress and my stats for me (which brought me more joy than my pump that day). It had rest timers, barbell calculations, as many reps and sets as you could want, super sets, drop sets, basically everything. The only reason it isn’t a 5 star is because I need to pay 80 dollars for the full version. It would be a 5 star for me if they even brought the price down to $35. Other than the paywall this has been an amazing app.