Weight calculating

I agree. I use metric so often I can't use the suggested weights because our metric dumbells don't have the "right increments". The metric dumbells and plates we have go from 10kg > 12.5kg > 15kg >17.5kg > 20kg etc (+2.5kg each time) and the plates we have are 1.25kg and 2.5kg then 5kg, 10kg, 20kg, 25kg.

Its basically universal that pre-loaded dumbbells come in five pound increments or multiples of five and pre-loaded barbells come in 10 pound increments or multiples of 10, even the available plates cannot create the odd weight calculations that the app suggests with a barbell either, such as 92.5 or 52.2 or any odd fractional weight with dumbbells or barbells if you use metric or imperial units (USA) its all the same and the app gives strange weight suggestions and there should be a way to change the unrealistic weight calculations. For iOS

Thank you for your suggestion and votes Peter and Cassy.

The more people vote for this one, the faster we'll implement it. Until then, what I can advise is to round up in those cases. If you feel the weight will be too heavy, you can also round down and try to do 1 extra rep. It will not make a big difference in your progression, especially long-term, but I can still understand it would be more convenient for the app to work the way you suggest. I'll definitely be keeping an eye on the votes. Thanks!

Hi guys,

We've had another comment today re weight increments, this time from Australia:

"Is there anyway you can fix the weights to allow 1.25kg increases for weights, I’m in Australia and we don’t have 1kg weights here or at the gym I go to now and even gyms I have trained at in the past."

As you can see, it's hard to please everyone. At this point, I'm thinking the best option may be to stop rounding altogether, and let everyone enter the weights they have access to. Would you guys like that solution?

Hi Carl, I have think this is a great idea. It would be best if there was no rounding. 

Kind regards,

Stacy. 

That solution would work. So long as the app calculates based on the actual weight the user enters rather than its recommendation.

Thanks for taking the time Cassy. Just to be clear: the app already calculate based on the actual weight you enter (rather than its recommendation). I don't see this changing.

Glad you think the solution I proposed would work. Cheers.

I don't think that the way that the app recommends weights should change because it helps with progressive overload to make progress, but the only thing about the recommendations that I don't like are the fractional weight calculations but that could be fixed if you can select or customize the plates and dumbbells aavailable to you and then the app makes recommendations based on what is possible with those weights for instance I have access to dumbbells from 5 to 160 pounds in 5 pound increments, and plates in 45,35,25,10,5,2.5 pounds so if something like that could be done while preserving the way the app works that would be great. In addition, your solution is basically what I wanted, and it would work but I just hope that you maintain the fundamental way that the app functions with the way it progresses as the user does with its weight recommendations because that is part of what makes this app great.

Regardless of how it is implemented users should be able to enter the plates that they have access to and how the dumbbells they have access to are measured or in what increments they are distributed in because plates and dumbbells are not the same thing and in some cases can be measured differently from one another, but I'm sure that you already know that. However, eliminating Rounding and going by the numbers that users give for an exercise would work just as well like if you enter 45 then the next would be 50 instead of 47.5 and so on.

yes I agree I would like to see actual user inputted weight figures rather than rounding up or down. Would be a great addition to the app

I don't think that this is completed because I still get fractional weight recommendations that are not possible with what I have access to