[TRAINING]

Fix a Workout You Logged Wrong

[Published 2026-08-27 · 721 words]

[THE SHORT ANSWER]

Open the day on the Workout tab and press Edit this workout, or use the edit action on the workout summary. Both open the same grid: every lift for that day at once, with weight, reps and RIR editable per set. The same screen carries Reopen and Keep Logging for a session that ended before you did, and Delete Workout for one that never happened.

Why corrections get their own screen

The live logger and the edit grid want opposite things.

Live loggerEdit grid
ShowsOne setEvery lift, every set
Optimised forOne tap, without lookingFinding the wrong number
UsedMid-sessionAfterwards

A screen trying to be both would be bad at each. So the live session shows one set at a time, and correcting after the fact gets a grid.

Mid-session corrections do not need this screen at all — tap the set's chip in the strip and its numbers load back into the stepper. See logging a session.

The grid

Each lift carries a verdict badge — Progressing, Holding, Deload or Baseline — and a reason line, then a row per set with weight and reps.

Under each lift is the RIR bar, zero through four. Rating a set retroactively counts exactly as much as rating it in the moment, and a mis-tap can be cleared back to unrated rather than being stuck at a wrong value.

This is the screen to use if you finished a session without rating anything. Ten seconds of retroactive rating is the difference between a week that counts toward weekly volume and one that does not.

Reopening a session

Reopen and Keep Logging is the fix for a session that ended early.

The usual cause is a pocket reaching the log button repeatedly until the set counter ran out and the button turned itself into Finish. Before this existed that session was over for good: the tab offers "See summary" for a complete day, and the live logger bounces straight back out of one.

Reopen hands the session back with every set still in it. You carry on from where you actually are.

The defences in the live logger exist so this should rarely be needed — the tap-shape gate, the debounce, the confirmation on Finish and the pocket lock. Reopen is the backstop for when all of them are defeated.

Deleting

Delete Workout removes every set logged that day, behind a confirmation, with no undo.

Use it for a session that never happened — a phantom created by a pocket, or a duplicate. Do not use it for a session that went badly.

A bad session is data. It is what makes the next prescription correct: the engine reads that you missed the bottom of the rep range and deloads about 10%, which is the right response. Delete it and the engine keeps prescribing a load you have already demonstrated you cannot complete.

What editing changes downstream

Corrections propagate, which is the point of making them.

set corrected:  225 × 5  →  225 × 8

e1RM (Epley) = weight × (1 + reps ÷ 30)
before: 225 × (1 + 5/30)  = 262 lb
after:  225 × (1 + 8/30)  = 285 lb

That flows into your strength trend, your session volume, the workout summary's comparison against last time, and the next prescription for that lift. Personal-record detection re-runs too, so a corrected set can turn out to have been a record.

Common mistakes

Deleting a bad session. It is the input the progression engine needs most.

Starting a second session for the same day. Reopen the first one instead.

Correcting weight but not reps. Both feed the estimated one-rep max, and it is the pair that matters.

Not rating sets retroactively. The grid makes it a ten-second job and it is what makes the week count.

Editing a session from months ago expecting the trend to change shape. It will change, correctly — but a single set rarely moves a ninety-day trend, and going hunting for old errors is usually not worth the time.

Using delete to tidy up a week that looks untidy. The training log is a record. Tidy records that misrepresent what happened produce confidently wrong prescriptions.

What to do next

Open your last session's edit grid and add RIR ratings to anything unrated. That is the single highest-value retroactive fix available, because unrated sets are invisible to the volume screen entirely.

Questions

How do I edit a workout I already finished?

Open the day on the Workout tab and use Edit this workout, or use the edit action in the top right of the workout summary. Both open the same grid, which shows every lift for that day at once with editable weight, reps and RIR per set.

I accidentally finished my workout. Can I carry on?

Yes. Open the edit screen for that day and use Reopen and Keep Logging. It hands the session back to the live logger with every set still in it, so you carry on where you were rather than starting a second session for the same day.

Can I add an RIR rating after the session?

Yes. Each lift in the edit grid has an RIR control under it, and rating retroactively counts exactly the same as rating in the moment. You can also clear a rating back to unrated if you mis-tapped.

How do I delete an entire workout?

Delete Workout at the bottom of the edit screen, behind a confirmation. It removes every set logged that day and cannot be undone. Use it for a session that never happened, not for one that went badly.

Why is editing a separate screen from the live logger?

Because the two have opposite priorities. The live logger shows one set at a time so a single tap commits the next set at 6am in a dark gym. Correcting needs the opposite — every lift and every set visible at once so you can find the wrong one. Trying to be both would make it bad at each.

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