A personal record is a set you did better than any set like it before. Loopa checks every working set as you log it and tells you when one is a best.
Logging is free. The analytics and calendar built on top of it are Premium.
Six kinds, and they are separate on purpose
- Estimated one-rep max. The headline strength number.
- Heaviest weight moved for at least one rep.
- Most reps at or above a given load.
- Most volume in a single set, reps multiplied by weight.
- Best pace, the fastest seconds per kilometer. The only one where lower is better.
- Longest distance in a single cardio set.
They are separate because grinding out 100 kg for 8 after previously hitting 110 kg for 3 is a volume best and a reps best while being no weight best at all. Telling you "no PR today" there would be true and useless.
Warm-ups never count
A set marked as a warm-up sets no records. Ramping up to your working weight does not fill your history with bests you did not mean.
About the estimated one-rep max
It uses the Epley formula, and it is an estimate rather than a measurement. Two things worth knowing about how Loopa handles it:
A single rep is the max. No formula is applied. Epley at one rep would report a 100 kg single as 103 kg, and then treat your honest 101 kg single next month as a failure to progress.
Above 12 reps there is no estimate at all. The formula is fitted to low-rep work; at 20 reps it claims a max of 167% of the load, which is an endurance measurement wearing a strength number's clothes. Loopa returns nothing rather than a fiction, so a high-rep set does not put an imaginary PR in your history.
Where to see them
Health › Training › Records. Every exercise you have set a record on, with the date and the set that did it.
A record is also flagged on the spot when you finish the set, so you know at the time rather than a week later.
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