How do I start a workout in Base?

Open the Workout tab and press Start on today's session card, or use the Start button on the dashboard's Today block. Opening the live session screen is what starts it — there is no separate confirmation, and the session timer begins immediately.

Do I have to type in my weights and reps?

No. Every set arrives pre-filled with what the progression engine prescribes, based on what you did last time and how close to failure it was. Most sets are one tap on Log set. The steppers are there for when the prescription is wrong, and tapping the number itself opens a keypad for when it is very wrong.

Can I train the exercises out of order?

Yes. The arrows either side of the exercise name step between lifts, skipping anything you have marked as skipped. The set strip underneath moves between sets of the current lift. Together they let a day be logged in the order it was actually trained rather than the order it was planned.

What stops my phone logging sets in my pocket?

Three things. The log button reads the shape of each press and rejects one that was held or slid rather than tapped, saying so on screen. A second press within half a second is treated as a double-tap rather than a second set. And after three minutes of no touch the screen locks behind a slide-to-unlock cover, which you can also engage manually from the header.

How do I fix a set I logged wrong mid-session?

Tap that set's chip in the strip under the exercise name. Its numbers load back into the stepper, the button changes to Update set, and a Delete this set action appears underneath. You do not have to finish the session to correct something.

How to Log a Lifting Session in Base

One set on screen at a time

The live logger deliberately shows one thing: the set you are about to do.

The live session. The target is pre-filled from the progression engine, the strip above tracks this lift's sets, and the one large button commits the set you just did.

Top to bottom:

The menu and the lock in the header
‹ exercise name › — arrows step between lifts
The set strip — a chip per set of this lift, inside a frame that fills as sets bank
8 × 185 LB at display size — the prescription
A reason line — why that number
Steppers for reps and weight
Log set — the one large button
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The numbers are already right

This is the part that decides whether logging survives contact with a real gym.

Every set arrives pre-filled from the progression engine, which reads your last session on that lift and how close to failure it was. The line under the numbers says which rule fired — holding, progressing, or deloading — so a prescription you disagree with is at least explicable.

Tapping the big number shows the plate breakdown (Per side: 45 + 25 + 10). Holding it opens the full explanation of where the load came from.

The steppers walk a real grid

The weight stepper does not add a fixed increment. It moves along the loads that actually exist:

below 35 lb   2.5 lb steps    (dumbbells, a cable pin, the 2.5 pair)
35 lb and up  5 lb steps      (the smallest jump on a loaded bar)

32.5 → 35 → 40      never 37.5

Bodyweight lifts use the coarse grid from zero, because added load hangs off a belt and only comes in 5s and 10s: NA → +5 → +10.

Tapping the number itself opens a keypad. Twenty taps to get from an empty bar to 135 is the thing that makes people stop logging.

Moving around

Two controls, and together they are what make a real session loggable.

Control	Moves
`‹` `›` beside the exercise name	Between lifts, skipping anything marked skipped
A chip in the set strip	Between sets of the current lift

Tapping a chip for a set already logged loads its numbers back into the stepper, changes the button to Update set, and reveals Delete this set. Correcting set one after set three is a two-tap operation rather than something you have to finish the workout to do.

The plan's sequence is a default, not a rule. If the squat rack is busy and you do the rows first, step to rows and log them there.

Adding, skipping and finishing

+ Add set stretches this lift's quota. Skip this set shrinks it, and says so with an undo — a set count that drops on its own is indistinguishable from the app losing a set.

The ⋯ menu carries the rest: keep going later, lock the screen, undo last set, skip this exercise, finish, delete workout.

Finish is behind a confirmation. It tells you how many planned sets are still unlogged before locking the session and opening the summary.

The pocket problem

The log button is full width and 72 points tall, because at 6am it has to be hittable without looking. A button that big is also hittable by a thigh.

Three defences, in increasing order of certainty:

The tap-shape gate. Every press is measured for how long it lasted and how far it slid. A thumb tap is brief and stationary; fabric pressure is a sustained hold that slides as the leg moves. A rejected press says so on screen — "That press was held, not tapped — nothing logged" — rather than silently doing nothing.

A 500 ms debounce. A second press within half a second is the tail of a double-tap, not a second set. Nobody performs two sets half a second apart.

The pocket lock. After three minutes of no touch, or from the lock button in the header, an opaque cover comes down. Only a deliberate left-to-right slide most of the way across removes it — the same reason "slide to power off" is a slide. It still shows which set you are on, so a glance at a locked screen is as useful as an unlocked one.

Three minutes is longer than the longest programmed rest in the app, so it does not fire during a genuine rest between heavy squats.

Common mistakes

Typing every number. The prescription is right most of the time. Confirm, do not re-enter.

Not rating sets. Weekly volume only counts sets it knows were close enough to failure. An unrated week reads as a light week.

Finishing early by accident. It is behind a confirmation for exactly this reason, and a mis-finished session can be reopened — see fixing a logged workout.

Fighting the plan's order. Use the arrows. Logging a day in the order you trained it is supported and expected.

Ignoring a rejected-tap message. It means nothing was logged. Tap again properly rather than assuming it registered.

Leaving the screen open in a pocket without locking it. The lock is one tap in the header and it is the only certain defence.

What to do next

Start today's session and log the first set without changing anything. If the prescribed weight is wrong, hold the number to read why it was chosen — the answer usually points at a set from last week that was rated more optimistically than it felt.