You can now assign Working Sets to your Strength Training sessions! 💪

Tracking Working Sets gives you a more detailed look into exactly what types of strength exercises you do and fine-tunes Red Light Green Light to more accurately detect fatigue.

This is an extension of our Early Access release of support for new sport types, which is currently a web-only feature and available in-app soon.

What are Working Sets?

These are the individual sets in your strength sessions, not including warm up. Sets should be challenging, with one or two reps left in reserve.

Let’s say your workout includes:

  • 4 x 12 Shoulder Press
  • 4 x 10 (each leg) Bulgarian Split Squat 🤮
  • 3 x 12 Deadlift
  • 4 x 10 Burpee
  • 3 x 15 Sit-Up

That’s a grand total of 18 working sets. 🏋️

By adding the extra granularity into this week’s Strength sessions, Red Light Green Light saw the difference between Monday’s upper body session and Friday’s squat day and detected a Yellow day.

Decided to take Saturday off completely after those split squats… 💀

How do I Set Working Sets?

You can do this from the planning step before your workout or you can add them after we’ve automatically imported your session from Strava/Garmin Connect.

From the planning side, click into any day, select Strength Training, and plan away!

From the completed side, you can drill in and add Working Sets once we’ve imported your session.

If you forget to record, or want to manually mark sessions as completed, we’ve got you covered there too. 👌

What do I need to do to start adding Working Sets?

This is an enhancement to our latest Early Access feature which imports new sport types with Activity Sync. 

If you already have Early Access enabled, you don’t need to do a thing! You can start adding Working Sets to your planned and completed Strength Training sessions today.

If you haven’t enabled it yet, you can do so right here: Early Access

What to expect by enabling Early Access?

In case you haven’t seen the main post, this launch is web-only and is coming soon to the apps. By enabling Early Access, both your past and future activities will be immediately imported, displayed, and considered by Adaptive Training and Red Light Green Light.

You’ll still get adaptations and red/yellow days as a result of new sport types in the apps while we finish up the remaining app work to display the activities.

Why add Working Sets? …and the future!!!

Tracking working sets adds that extra level of granularity to what you do in your strength sessions. This is great for tracking your work, but it goes deeper than that by feeding into Red Light Green Light to detect when your gym work impacts your fatigue levels.

In other words, we’re going to weigh those heavy leg days differently. 🙏

This enhancement to Strength Training really sets us up for the future. Something we’ve always wanted is to better integrate gym work into our training plans. This is a step in that direction and we’re super excited for ya’ll to start using it.

For more help with adding Working Sets, check the Help Center, and as always support@trainerroad.com has your back.

Thanks everyone!