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How to Export Your Workouts from Strong and Hevy (Do It Before You Need To)
Step-by-step CSV export from Strong, Hevy, and FitNotes, how to sanity-check the file, and an honest look at what moving that history into another app actually involves.
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Strong and Hevy Alternatives in 2026: An Honest Comparison
Strong, Hevy, FitNotes, and Repsheet compared honestly — what each does well, what sits behind the paywall as of 2026, and when you should pick a competitor over us.
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The Body Heatmap: Spotting a Lopsided Week at a Glance
You remember bench day. You don't remember hamstrings quietly getting nothing for three weeks. How Repsheet's body heatmap is computed, how to read it, and where it will mislead you.
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Cycle-Aware Training: Planning Context, Not a Rulebook
What the evidence actually says about strength across the menstrual cycle, how Repsheet's opt-in phase model works, and why the data stays on your device by default.
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Deload When the Numbers Say Rest, Not When You Feel Tired
Feelings are a bad deload trigger — they fire too early on stressful days and never fire when you're motivated. Three signals in your training log that actually mean it's time for an easy week.
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Home Gym Minimalism: What You Actually Need to Keep Progressing
Progressive overload runs on a log and consistency, not on equipment. The three-tier home setup that covers years of progress — and the gear you can skip entirely.
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Two Taps Between Sets: Why Friction Kills Workout Logs
Workout journals don't die from laziness — they die from friction. What logging a set actually costs mid-workout, and why prefill from your last session turns an unchanged set into a single tap.
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Working-Set PRs vs Ego PRs: Which Numbers Actually Measure Progress
A grinded one-rep max is a noisy, expensive measurement. Your best working sets are the signal. Why the quiet PRs are the ones worth tracking, and how to collect them every week.
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Progressive Overload Without Spreadsheets
The principle is trivial: do slightly more than last time. The hard part is knowing what last time was, at the rack, for every exercise. Here's what a spreadsheet actually does for a lifter — and what replaces it.
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Volume per Muscle Group 101: What to Count, What to Ignore
Weekly volume is the one training number worth planning around — if you count it right. What a 'set' actually means, how many you need, and where the counting rules get murky.