Progress in GYMKA: Levels, Streaks, Leaderboards and the Body Map

A tier is a snapshot of one lift. The rest of GYMKA's progress system is about the thing that actually produces tiers: showing up, repeatedly, and covering your whole body while you do it.

XP and levels

Logging training earns XP, and XP raises your level. The card at the top of Home shows your current level, the XP still needed for the next one, and your level tier. It is deliberately consistency-based rather than weight-based — you cannot shortcut it by loading a bar you cannot lift, because the system rewards training that happened, not numbers that were typed.

Streaks and your weekly goal

Two streaks run side by side. The day streak counts consecutive days you trained. The week streak counts consecutive weeks you hit your goal, which you set yourself at three, four, five or six days a week.

The "I trained today" button marks a day when you did something GYMKA did not see — a class, a hike, a session you did not log set by set.

Leaderboards

Community → Ranks is the leaderboard. Because tiers are calibrated per exercise and built on strength-to-bodyweight ratios, the board compares like with like rather than simply putting the heaviest people on top.

The body map

Home → Body is an anatomical figure that colours each muscle by the best tier you have achieved on the lifts that train it. Every exercise in the catalogue maps to primary, secondary and stabiliser muscles, so a bench press lights up the chest strongly and the triceps and shoulders less so.

Read it for gaps rather than for the colours you like. Two things it reliably reveals:

• Muscles with no colour at all — you are not training them, and that is usually the fastest thing to fix.
• A large imbalance between front and back, or upper and lower, which limits your big lifts and shows up in the map long before it shows up in the mirror.

Between the map and the History tab you have the two questions that matter: am I covering everything, and is it going up?