r/Gravl

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I definitely appreciate the new method the plate calculator uses to try to reduce the work of deloading/reloading plates between sets but for me personally I feel like this is a feature that sounds good on paper and sucks in practice. At least it does for me. I think it would be nice to have a choice between two different methods.

For instance I had barbell presses on my routine today. Love it. Start at just 75 lbs. for the warmup I think I had 55lbs so the barbell plus 5lbs on each side.

At 75 lbs, the plate calc calls for 1x10, 1x5 if I’m remembering correctly. Perfect

Next set, is 80 lbs, or 1x10, 1x5, 1x2.5

Next set is 85 lbs. the old plate calculator would have said 2X10. The new calculator says 1x10, 1x5, 2x2.5.

I mean…I get what it’s trying to do here but this is a very minor example of how it’s just kinda silly. I’m just gonna remove the smaller plates and go with two 10s. In this specific scenario I would have had to walk like 20 feet away to grab another pair of 2.5s and then I wold have had to return them to the machine I borrowed them from so it’s not really saving me any effort.

Again, I see how this would look really good on paper, but in practice sometimes it’s just weirdly redundant or just silly. I think for some people this might be hugely useful but in my case, I just think it makes the calculations look redundant and useless. So it would be awesome if I could just revert the plate calculator to the old calculation method. Like, if there could be a choice between the two, I think that would be great.

When I use the Garmin watch app, Gravl doesn't push over any of my reps/sets to Garmin connect. Is this a bug or is this normal?

Version 1.51 includes a big round of improvements to workout progression, analytics, equipment handling and general polish.

Highlights:

• Records and weight units can now be tracked separately for each gym for machine exercises.
• AI support chat, can review your settings and profile. You can always request for human coach support.
• Weight recommendations better respect the equipment available in your current gym.
• Large weight jumps are limited to more realistic increments.
• Progress and 1RM insights now show the sessions between milestones, making improvements easier to understand.
• Measurement charts, exercise history and record analytics have been improved.
• You can specify how many plates are available and assign custom plate colors.
• Exercise search and AI exercise creation now handle partial names and similar exercises better.
• Deload information is clearer, with a visible option to delete scheduled deloads.
• New exercises and an updated exercise-form analysis screen have been added.
• Celebration settings can now hide streak, Strength Score and freeze animations.

Major bug fixes:

• Fixed crashes when opening Dumbbells or Plates during a workout.
• Fixed the lock-screen widget and rest timer freezing after completing an exercise.
• Fixed recommendations using weights from the wrong gym.
• Fixed pull workouts incorrectly adding front or side delts.
• Fixed next workout edits being lost before starting a workout.
• Fixed hamstrings being ignored when classifying custom workouts.
• Fixed Olympic bars becoming impossible to edit after setting their weight to zero.
• Fixed incorrect limits preventing users from creating additional gyms.
• Fixed unwanted external-workout import prompts on iOS.
• Fixed several Android issues involving warm-up sets, Trends navigation, overlapping search fields and untappable controls.
• Fixed oversized start and finish markers on short cardio routes.

There are also plenty of smaller UI, consistency improvements throughout the app. As always, let us know what you think and report anything that doesn’t look right!

To those of you using the macro app, how is it going?

Almost threw my phone across the f'n gym this morning!!!

Spent 5 minutes or more in car before entering gym rearranging and setting up workout just to have it be a blank screen and reset completely to a different workout when I got to the first spot in the gym. This is 3 workous in a row and it just started doing this.

Enough to make me not subscribe anymore!!!

My watch and phone are no longer synced up fully. When I hit start workout on my watch, nothing happens on my phone, but when I send the workout from my phone to my watch, it updates my watch. During the workout, when I log sets on the phone, it updates the watch. So there’s some communication happening, but they’re not on the same workout time or break time or anything like that. Not sure if this is just a beta issue or if others are experiencing sync issues with their watch?

I feel like there should be a couple more levels after you reach 300+ so there’s something more to work toward.

I always make edits to my training session before starting. Twice now in the past week, the app has suddenly undone the changes I made and reverted back to its preplanned training session. I don’t want that! I have my own goals. This is a recent change and it’s very frustrating.

I've noticed the strength scores only include exercises that use either barbell or dumbells. Most of what I have access to is cable and smith.

Any plans to include other equipment exercises into the strength scoring system (like cable equipment or smith machine)?

Anyone else notice when they do a weekly workout out of order that it messes up the weekly plan as a whole. For example, I'm following a push-pull-legs-upper body plan. This week I changed a workout and now my leg workout is gone for the week. It defaulted to pull-upper body-upper body-push.

I wish strength scores were inputed for Smith machine variants of certain barbell exercises ie. Squats, RDL's, etc