Log heavy sets with a workout tracker for powerlifting

The log decides the next session

If you train the squat, bench and deadlift, you know the numbers are the point. A good training cycle and a wasted one often differ in one thing: whether you logged your top sets and how hard they felt. With a messy log, you pick your openers from memory. A clean one tells you what to beat each session.

Trackist is built for fast logging under heavy weights. No clutter and no ads, just the fields you need between sets while you catch your breath.

What Trackist does for powerlifters

On every set you log weight, reps and RPE, a rating of how hard the set felt from 1 to 10. Last session's numbers sit under the sets you did then, and each exercise has a note for cues like bar position or grip width.

From your second session, the exercise page charts your estimated one-rep max on lifts you log with weight: the most you could lift once, worked out from the sets you logged. You can watch your squat, bench and deadlift move without testing a true max. The same page keeps your records, such as heaviest weight and best estimated one-rep max. Each is marked the moment you beat your previous best. On pull-ups and dips, Trackist adds your body weight from your latest weigh-in to the plate on your belt, so volume and the estimated one-rep max count the whole load.

The Strength Score puts those numbers in context. It takes your best estimated one-rep max from the last 90 days in 4 groups of lifts: squat, hinge (deadlifts and similar), push and pull. It divides that by your body weight and compares it with standards for your sex and age. You get a score out of 100, a Strength Age, and a breakdown by group with what would move the score.

From your second session of an exercise, a line above it suggests today's weight from your last session's sets, the rep range and your RPE. On a barbell it moves in steps of 2.5 kg. When you fall short of the reps, it keeps the weight, takes about 5% off or leaves the call to you, depending on how far short you fell and how hard the sets felt.

Had a poor night, low on energy, or sore in the half of the body you train today? Trackist offers a lighter session: one set fewer on each strength exercise that has more than one, 30 seconds more rest and no finisher, with the same weight on the bar. It changes today only, and one tap puts the full session back.

Between heavy sets, the rest timer starts from the plan's rest time, with +30 s and Skip buttons, and keeps running on the Lock Screen. The body weight chart shows every weigh-in and your average change per week, which helps you watch your weight class.

What Trackist does not do for powerlifting

Trackist writes the sets, reps and rest, and suggests a weight from your last session. It does not program the bar from percentages. There is:

• no plate calculator and no warm-up calculator
• no load programming from percentages or RPE targets, beyond the weight suggestion
• no peaking for a meet date and no attempt selection
• no warm-up sets in the plan, so warm-ups are up to you
• no data export, and logging needs an internet connection

If your coach writes your percentages, keep the spreadsheet next to it.

What powerlifters use most

• Set logging with RPE: record weight, reps and RPE on every set. Programs that set the weight by how the day feels need exactly that.
• Estimated one-rep max trend: from your second session, a line for each lift you log with weight.
• Records: heaviest weight and best estimated one-rep max, marked as soon as you beat your previous best.
• Strength Score and Strength Age: your squat, hinge, push and pull relative to body weight, against standards for your sex and age.
• Notes on each exercise: save cues for squat depth, bench arch or deadlift setup where you need them.
• A plan built around your week: 4 to 12 weeks. In a plan of 6 weeks or more, the last week is a deload, a lighter week with the same weights and about 60% of the sets.

Start in 3 steps

1. Get your plan: answer 14 questions about your goal, experience, equipment, joints, schedule, session length and age, and Trackist writes a plan around you.
2. Log every working set: record weight, reps and RPE as you go, with notes on technique.
3. Check your progress: see the estimated one-rep max trend and records on your squat, bench and deadlift, and your Strength Score in the weekly recap.

Run each plan from clear numbers

In powerlifting, the numbers tell you most of what you need. Log every set, note every heavy attempt and review the data, so each session starts with a clear target. One plan at a time, the log builds into months of progress on your squat, bench and deadlift.

Looking for a strength plan to start from? Read the 5x5 strength plan, see how strength standards work, or read how RPE guides the weight you pick.

Trackist is on the App Store for iPhone, with no ads.