▲ 18 r/Hevy

Are exercise notes NOT private?

I was able to see someone else’s exercise notes.

Is there a setting to make your notes Private? I assume people can see mine as well. And I don’t really want that since The cues are sometimes funny awkward, and personal.

I don’t mind people seeing my workouts. So The solution cannot be just don’t have any friends and keep a private profile.

Edit: typos

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u/thehappydoor — 16 days ago

Noob question: does having Tailscale turned on on all my devices? Give me any sort of VPN like protections?

Without using exit nodes or any other settings.
Just having the toggle turned on, on my laptop and my phone.

Follow up question: is there any set of settings within Tailscale which would help me get VPN protection?

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u/thehappydoor — 16 days ago

Done with Apple Music. Can I just go back to owning my music and syncing it to my iPhone?

I’m so done with Apple Music.

Licensing changes, regional/geopolitical restrictions, albums randomly changing, songs disappearing — I just want to listen to my music in peace.

The frustrating part is that I’m perfectly happy to pay. I’m not trying to avoid paying for music or subscriptions. But despite paying every month, I feel like I have absolutely no control over my music library.

At any given point, I’ll have 100–200 songs suddenly unavailable because of some licensing or regional restriction.

So I’m seriously considering going back to the old-school way of doing things:
Download/buy the actual music files → keep them on my MacBook → sync them to my iPhone → listen to them forever.

Is this still reasonably easy to do within the Apple ecosystem?

Ideally, I’d still like to use the Apple Music app itself as my music player/library on both my Mac and iPhone. I just don’t want my personal library to be dependent on Apple Music’s streaming catalogue.
I’ve also heard about iTunes Match. From what I understand, you can have your own music library on your Mac and iTunes Match will match/upload it so that the same library is available across your Apple devices. Is that actually how it works? And importantly, does it work reliably without an Apple Music subscription?

I don’t mind paying for iTunes Match, buying music, or even paying for another service if necessary (but I would prefer Apple Music for the seamless integration with the various HomePods). I just want control over my fucking music library again.
For anyone who has gone back to maintaining their own local music collection in 2026: what setup are you using?

Is iTunes Match still the best solution? Or can I just connect my phone to my laptop via a cable and have my MacBook iTunes Library sync every time I do so? Someone please help?

u/thehappydoor — 26 days ago
▲ 25 r/HomePod

Considering getting two HomePods for the TV

Wanted to understand, with eARC support is the transmission, smooth and instantaneous, or is there some sort of latency?

Also, do I have to set the playback every time or will the Apple TV pick it up automatically?

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u/thehappydoor — 28 days ago
▲ 8 r/Hevy

Someone posted about rest timer, customisation of few days back. I think this is a good implementation, as it does not clutter the actual workout UI

This could be easily added in the main settings, and will automatically apply to your workout without actually cluttering the workout user interface

u/thehappydoor — 29 days ago
▲ 127 r/Hevy

I know it’s not much, but it’s my first ever week, of doing 6 days with consistency 💪

I feel invincible lol

u/thehappydoor — 1 month ago

Feature request: One-tap “Copy Yesterday’s Meals” for easier food logging

One of the best nutrition tips I got while getting into fitness was: be boring.

Once you know your calorie target and find meals you actually like, eating the same stuff most days makes everything easier. Less thinking, less weighing, and fewer chances to mess up your logging.

There’s a very good chance that what I ate yesterday is what I’m eating today. Maybe with a few small changes, but usually it’s the same meals and the same portions.

The annoying part is having to log all of it again from scratch. It takes a bunch of taps across different screens for something that should be pretty simple. That adds a lot of unnecessary friction in my opinion. And it is especially pronounced for people who are tracking the same thing every day.

Apps like Lose It! let you copy yesterday’s meals, and I’d love to see something similar in Bevel. Just a one-tap “Copy Yesterday’s Meals” button that brings over everything from the previous day, including quantities.

I guess I’m not the only one who eats repeat meals to make tracking easier. This would remove a ton of friction for anyone following a consistent meal plan.

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u/thehappydoor — 1 month ago

This app charges a fraction of bevel and provides way more useful widgets. Bevel are you listening?

I wish bevel reduced the focus on AI and a frustrating chatbot and focused more on actual usable glanceable widgets. I don't need an AI to tell me how I'm feeling, if I have actual good widgets, I can just look at the data myself.

u/thehappydoor — 3 months ago
▲ 0 r/Hevy

Why Are Rest Timers Still Fixed?

Hevy lets you customize weights, reps, tempo, RIR, etc. But one thing that’s almost always fixed is the rest timer.

And honestly, that feels outdated.

If we already use apps to precisely log performance instead of just “going by feel,” why not apply the same logic to rest periods too?

Right now, most people do something like:

4 sets
2 minutes rest between every set.

But fatigue isn’t linear. You’re obviously fresher after set 1 than you are after set 3. So why should the recovery time stay identical throughout the exercise?

What if rest periods were staggered per set instead? For example:
After set 1 → 1:00
After set 2 → 1:20
After set 3 → 1:45
Before final set → 2:00

That seems much closer to how actual fatigue and recovery work in practice.

Shorter rests early on keep workout density high, while slightly longer rests later help maintain performance when fatigue accumulates.

Feels like a feature that makes perfect sense in a digital training environment.

Curious if anyone else has experimented with staggered/set-specific rest periods instead of fixed rest timers.

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u/thehappydoor — 3 months ago
▲ 1 r/WorkoutRoutines+1 crossposts

Please help me with my split?

I’ve been trying to optimize this split for a while now, with the main focus being consistency and recoverability rather than constantly going all-out. That’s why I settled on a 5-day split.

A few things I intentionally prioritized:

- Lower body volume is relatively low since my goal there is more balance/stability rather than maximum hypertrophy.

- Recovery and long-term sustainability matter more to me than squeezing out every last bit of volume.

- I originally tried keeping sessions to ~6 exercises, but realistically couldn’t cover everything I wanted without leaving gaps. I’ve now landed closer to ~8 exercises per day, though some are very low-fatigue accessory movements.

What I’d appreciate feedback on:

- Any glaring blind spots or recovery issues

- Exercise selection/redundancies

- Exercise ordering

- Weekly volume distribution

- Whether this still looks realistically sustainable long term

The goal isn’t the most “hardcore” program possible — just, hypertrophy focussed for upper body, recoverable, and effective over time.

https://preview.redd.it/fr9txzrj3o3h1.png?width=978&format=png&auto=webp&s=d09bf19b0c30baf68f78e087132929435ae69f9d

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u/thehappydoor — 3 months ago

I honestly don’t understand the outrage regarding the new version. The current version just works fine, and there is nothing else that we can come close to a functionality.

I don’t mind even waiting six months for the new version that will be even better than the current version.

Everyone who is creating an outrage is really spoilt in my opinion.

Just breathe and continue using the current version that works beautifully consistently and flawlessly.

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u/thehappydoor — 4 months ago

Is there a setting that I'm missing or is this not possible? I'm a lifetime heavy subscriber and I'm not about to change my workout login app. I'm super happy with it.

The whole idea of Bevel seems to be to be able to pull in data from multiple sources and make it make sense within the app, that's what they market it as.

They do this for nutrition, they do this for vitals. Is it not possible for strength training?

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u/thehappydoor — 4 months ago