Guides
Guides
How the numbers on the dashboard are calculated, what each one is good for, and where it stops being trustworthy. Written to be checkable: every threshold and formula here is the one the app actually uses.
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How many sets per muscle group per week?
What a weekly set count measures, the range research points at, and how to count your own.
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What training volume measures, and what it does not
Weight times reps, summed — a good record of your own workload, a poor way to compare two people.
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How an estimated 1RM is calculated — and when it lies
Epley, Brzycki, where they diverge, and why the rep count has to be capped.
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How to tell if a lift has actually plateaued
Most bad weeks are noise. The guards that separate a real stall from a hard week.
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Reading push, pull and upper/lower balance
How sets get bucketed into muscle groups, and what an imbalance does and does not mean.
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What a training streak actually measures
A streak counts weeks, not effort. What it hides, and the number that does not.
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How to compare two Hevy profiles
Putting two — or up to four — public profiles side by side, and reading the difference honestly.