r/liftosaur

P.S.: Video is just a rough prototype to illustrate the idea, not a real UI :)

Current UI for editing programs doesn't work very reliably, and frankly quite confusing. Especially if it edits the programs with reusing logic, and repeating over several weeks. Then, just adding or deleting a day or an exercise may make the program invalid - for example if that exercise was reused by other exercises. And then it gets into plain text mode with a scary syntax error.

That can scare away users, especially the new ones, who's just trying the app. And generally, the current UI doesn't give a great visibility into a program.

I realized that the current UI just doesn't mirror the data model well. In Liftoscript - weeks and days are just containers for exercises. And exercises span the days when repeating - so reordering a day often doesn't make sense - a day is ephemeral, a repeated exercise shows up in a day if the day is there. But if not - it's not added.

What would be the right UI though? I thought - maybe it should be actually a calendar-like. Something similar to Google Calendar or Cal.app. You have weeks as columns. Days as cells within those columns. And exercises are like "events" you add to days. Which can span multiple days.

You cannot move weeks or days around, they're just there as containers. Instead - you move exercises. If an exercise is repeated across weeks - it spans multiple weeks. If it's a reusing one - it highlights the template it reuses if you tap it. You can drag the right edge to change repeating, and you can just drag the exercise around to move it between days and weeks.

You can multiselect few exercises by tapping on them and move them together to some week/day. Tapping on an exercise shows info at the bottom, and ability to edit it there.

Tapping on a template highlights all the exercises that use that template.

You can zoom in/out by pinching, and also use landscape mode for better visibility for many-week programs.

That should solve the whole class of issues of the current program editing UI, and it's easier to ensure the program is always structurally correct. It also maps waaay better to the Liftoscript structure, with all its Bicep Curl[1-12].

BTW, the program on the video is this 5/3/1 BBB - this is the Liftoscript - https://www.liftosaur.com/programs/the531bbb

Basically, I'm trying to find a replacement for these 2 tabs on the Program screen

What do you think? Yay or nay? Is it even more confusing? :) Would love to hear your thoughts!

You can now time the set itself, not just the rest after it. Great for planks, timed cardio, or any "hold for X seconds" exercise. Use the setTimer|restTimer syntax:

Plank / 3x1 0lb 60s|30s

That's 3 sets of plank, holding each for 60s, then resting 30s. Add + to count up past the target instead of stopping automatically (like 30s+|60s). Add auto to auto-advance to the next set when the rest ends - which is how you build circuits like EMOM or Tabata:

// EMOM - 5 rounds, 5 reps, 1-minute window
Power Clean / 5x5 135lb 60s|0s auto
// Tabata - 8 rounds of 20s work / 10s rest
Squat, Bodyweight / 8x1+ 0lb 20s|10s auto

In the UI (in the app, in Live Activity / Live Update, and in Apple Watch as well), you'll get a set timer modal if the current set has time.

Read more in the docs - section "Set timers (active timers) and circuits".

⚠️ You need an iOS/Android native app update (from App Store / Google Play) to get this feature.

Hi! I've been using Liftosaur and really appreciate the app's focus on total user control and scripting. However, I noticed the default 1RM calculator is locked to RPE tables. While I understand the reasoning, it yields different numbers compared to the standard algebraic formulas I am used to for my progression tracking.

​It would be amazing to have a global setting that allows users to change the default 1RM calculation method across the entire app.

​Ideally, it could be a dropdown menu in the Settings with the following options:

​Liftosaur Default (Current RPE Tables)

​Standard Formulas (Epley, Brzycki, etc.)

​Custom (A text field where users can input their own algebraic formula using variables like W for weight and R for reps, similar to how Liftoscript handles custom logic).

​While I know I can override rm1 on a per-exercise basis using custom scripts, a global setting would make it much easier to keep historical data and progression math consistent without having to hardcode every single workout block. Thanks for all the hard work on the app!

P.S. I have added suggestion on the Roadmap. Here is link to upvote it if someone needs it as well.

https://github.com/astashov/liftosaur/discussions/589#discussion-10354197

I’ve done this several times as well as powered off the phone a few times.

Force closing and reopening the app didn't help

In my gym, we have dumbbells that go in 2.5lb increments up to 20lbs, and then in 5lb increments after that. Is there a way to set that up in liftosaur?

The whole "plates on the Dumbbell" thing is messing with me compared to other apps like macrofactor workouts where you just say what dumbbells you have