Logging a workout set by set
Starting a workout hands you the list you built, now live. One tap marks a set done, the numbers at the top move with it, and nothing reaches your history until you finish.
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Step 1. Tick the set off
The set number is the button. Tap it and the box fills green, the number becomes a check, and the row locks so the reps and weight you logged cannot drift. Tap it again to take the tick back.
Everything else moves with it. The card at the top takes that set's tonnage into kg volume, the counter goes to 3 of 8, and a rest starts on its own with Finish workout becoming the rest card. Clear every set of an exercise and a green check settles over its thumbnail.
- The ring is your performance score as it stands
- kg volume leaves warm-ups and failure sets out
- The clock runs from the moment you started
The ? in the header is the app's own reference, open mid-set: how to delete a set, what each set-type letter means, and what the weight cell is asking for.
Step 2. Log what you actually lifted
The numbers on a set are what you planned, not what happened. Tap the reps cell or the weight cell before you tick it and the ruler slides up with the set number under the title.
Log the six you got, not the eight you wrote down. Your volume and the targets Bolt writes next time both come off these rows.
A completed set locks its cells. Tap its number to take the tick back, change what you need, then tick it again.
An exercise measured in time swaps the reps cell for a hold timer. It counts down to your target, then up in green, and the seconds land in the set when you stop it.
Step 3. Change the workout mid-session
Add set copies the row above it. The copy arrives grey, the app saying nobody has confirmed those numbers, and goes white the moment you set one. Add exercise at the bottom opens the same picker the builder uses.
The three dots on an exercise change the exercise rather than the set: swap it, reorder the list, write a note against it, report a bad catalogue entry, or drop it from the workout.
Generate progression sits in that menu and needs at least Lite. Bolt reads your history on that exercise and writes the next targets straight into the rows.
Step 4. Finish, even with sets left
Finish workout stays dim until at least one set is ticked. With the whole list done it goes straight to the effort sheet. With sets outstanding it asks first: the tick box offers to mark the rest as completed, and the line under it rewrites itself as you flip it.
The X in the header is the other way out. It throws away everything logged in the session, and the app says so before it does.
A set you never put a number on carries no work, so it is dropped either way. That is how the tick box can offer three when four are outstanding.