Logging Lifts, Reading Tiers, and Using Your History

Everything in GYMKA starts with a logged set. This guide covers what happens to that set, how tiers are produced, and what your history can tell you once it has a few weeks in it.

Logging a set

Home → Log is the form. Choose the exercise, enter the weight and the reps you completed, and save. The exercise picker searches the full catalogue and groups exercises by muscle, so typing "row" gets you every rowing variation at once.

You can mark a set as a warm-up. Warm-up sets are recorded for completeness but excluded from your tier and personal-record calculations, so a light acclimatisation set never drags your numbers around.

What GYMKA does with it

1. Estimates your one-rep max from the weight and reps using the Epley formula.
2. Divides that estimate by your current bodyweight to get a strength ratio.
3. Looks the ratio up against thresholds calibrated for that specific exercise.
4. Assigns a tier, from Bronze up through Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond and Master.

Exercises that are held, not repped

Planks, dead hangs, wall sits and similar holds are time-based. GYMKA logs them as a duration plus any added weight instead of reps, and no one-rep max or tier is calculated, because the maths does not apply to an isometric hold.

Personal records for these follow a weight-first rule: more added weight always beats less, and at equal weight the longer hold wins. That stops a long unweighted plank from hiding the fact that you held 20 kg for less time.

Adding your own exercises

If something is missing from the catalogue, Add Exercise creates it. You set the name, the muscle groups it trains, and whether it is measured in reps or in time. Custom exercises are private to your account, sync across your devices, and behave like built-in ones everywhere else in the app — including the body map.

Reading your history

Home → History is every set you have logged, newest first, filterable by exercise. It is the most useful screen in the app once you have a few weeks of data, for three reasons:

• It gives you a target. Before a set, check what you did last time and beat one number — a rep, or a small increment of weight.
• It shows trend rather than mood. A lift that has not moved in six weeks is a programming signal, not a bad day.
• It surfaces personal records automatically, so you notice progress you would otherwise forget.

Sharing a lift

Any logged lift can be turned into a share card — a rendered image with the lift, the weight, and your tier. The look is configurable in Settings → Share Card (background, tint, theme, or your own image). You can post it straight to Instagram, X, WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook or TikTok, or just download the image.

Log honestly, including the sets that went badly. The value of the history is that it is a record of what actually happened, and a tier built on optimistic logging is a tier you cannot trust.