Logging workouts

Starting a workout

Open the Log Workout tab to start fresh or pick a session. The + button starts an empty freestyle workout; below it sit your program's next session and recent routine sessions — tap one to preview the full workout, set by set, and hit Start Workout from there. Sessions arrive pre-filled with their planned sets and your previous weights.

Your workout is saved on the device continuously. Close the app, take a call, or let the phone die - when you come back, Durata resumes exactly where you left off.

The exercise carousel

Across the top of a live workout sits a carousel with one cell per exercise. Tap a cell to jump to that exercise, or press and drag to reorder the session on the fly. A green tick marks each finished exercise, and the + cell at the end adds a new one.

The set types

Tap a set's number badge to change its type. There are 10 to choose from: Warm Up, Normal, Top Set, Backoff, Drop Set, Intensity, AMRAP, Rest Pause, Partials and Unilateral. Each gets a colour-coded badge, so a glance down the rows shows the shape of the session.

AMRAP (as many reps as possible) is a modifier that can ride on top of any base type - a top set or a backoff can also be AMRAP, and the badge splits into two colours to show both. AMRAP sets get a live target: the reps at your entered weight that would beat your estimated 1RM.

Percentage-based sets do the maths for you: an Intensity set takes a percentage of your training max (or estimated 1RM) and fills in the weight; Drop and Backoff sets take a percentage reduction from the set before them.

Auto-fill and coaching hints

Every weight and rep field shows what you did last session as a faint placeholder. Ticking off a set you haven't typed into logs those values - a blank tick means "same as last time", which keeps repeat sessions down to one tap per set.

When a routine or program prescribes the reps, the prescription wins: a fixed rep count is pre-filled, and a rep range like 8-12 stays visible as the placeholder rather than being replaced by what you got last time - ticking a range set you haven't typed into logs the top of the range.

Above the next set, Durata shows a short coaching hint based on your history and the set's type - "Last time: 60x8 - start here or go heavier". Turn off Progression Hints in Settings if you'd rather lift in silence.

On a program, the program wins. Where it fixed the reps - a 5/3/1 straight set, a StrongLifts-style working weight, a 10x10 volume block - the hint stays quiet rather than talking you into an extra rep the plan never asked for. Where the program deliberately leaves the top open it speaks up, and it scores you against the program's own target: an AMRAP set gets the reps that would beat your estimated 1RM, and a rep range gets the number that earns the next weight increase.

If you keep lifting heavier than a program lift's target for a few sessions in a row, Durata notices and shows a short prompt on that exercise: your working weight was probably set too low. Tap Adjust to open Working Weights and correct it, rather than waiting for the small automatic increases to catch up.

Supersets

Open an exercise's menu and choose Manage Superset to link it with other exercises in the session. Linked exercises share a colour-coded group: their carousel tiles are joined by a chain-link badge with a matching underline, an SS tag sits next to the exercise name, and when you finish a set the partner exercise shows as up next.

By default Durata also auto-advances, jumping to the partner exercise when the rest timer ends. Turn Auto-Advance Superset off in Settings if you'd rather move yourself.

The rest timer

Tick off a set and the rest timer starts on its own. The full-screen view shows the countdown plus what's next - exercise, set number, target weight and reps, and any coaching hint. Nudge the time with the -15s and +15s buttons, or minimise it to a small floating timer and keep scrolling.

You don't need to keep the screen on: when rest ends, Durata fires a notification telling you what's next, even with the phone locked - and its beeps briefly duck your music instead of pausing it. Each set can carry its own rest time, or None to skip the timer entirely.

The warm-up calculator

Tap the W button in the bottom bar and enter your first working-set weight; the calculator builds a ramp of warm-up sets, each a percentage of that weight with reps and rest. Everything is editable, you can save your own profiles, and one tap inserts the whole ramp into the current exercise.

The rep max calculator

The 1RM button opens the rep max calculator: give it a weight and reps and it estimates your one-rep max with the Epley formula, plus a table of equivalent loads at every rep count. It's the same estimate Durata uses everywhere, so the numbers always agree.

The plate calculator

The plate calculator shows exactly which plates to load per side, drawn to scale, in your own unit - kg and lbs are both fully supported, each with its own bar and plate setup. It respects the plates you've told Durata you own - including microplates, configured in Settings - so it never suggests a plate your gym doesn't have.

The tool tray and fatigue bar

Swipe down on the workout header to open the tool tray: Timer (a manual countdown with presets and a custom mm:ss input), Tempo, Stats and Settings. Tempo is a rep-cadence metronome - tap to start it, long-press to edit the tempo. Until you've found the editor once, tapping the button briefly flips its label to "Hold to edit" so the long-press doesn't stay hidden. Stats shows live duration, sets and volume, and lets you rename the workout mid-session.

On dips, pull-ups, chin-ups and push-ups, volume counts you as well as the plates. Log a weighted dip as "+10 kg" and Durata values the set at your body weight plus 10; assisted variants count body weight minus the assistance instead, so using less assistance means more volume. It uses your most recent weigh-in from the last 30 days - a small "includes bodyweight" note appears under the volume figure whenever this is in effect, and without a recent weigh-in volume simply counts the added weight as before.

Under the carousel, a thin fatigue bar watches your completed sets and fills as performance drops across the session. Tap it for the signals behind the reading, or hide it in Settings.

Lifting to a tempo

Tempo lifting — controlling how long each phase of a rep takes — is how you make a weight harder without adding plates: more time under tension, stricter technique, no momentum. Coaches write it as four digits like 3-0-1-0: three seconds down, no pause, one second up, no pause at the top.

Durata's cadence metronome beats that rhythm out loud so you don't have to count. Tap Tempo in the tool tray to start it; long-press to open the tempo editor, where four dials set the eccentric, bottom hold, concentric and top hold — the metronome follows whatever you dial in.

Use it for paused bench and squats, slow-eccentric accessories, or any week where the plan says "3-1-1-0" and you'd otherwise be guessing at seconds mid-set.

Pausing, discarding and finishing

The three-dot menu in the header holds Pause Workout (stops the clock without losing anything) and Discard Workout. Finishing opens the Session Complete screen: duration, sets and volume up top, a notes field, and Save as Routine - the fastest way to turn a good freestyle session into a reusable routine. If you restructured a routine session mid-workout, Durata offers to save the changes back to it.

You can add a post-workout photo from the same screen - take a new shot with your phone's camera or pick one from your library. Then share the session as a workout card: a Session card leading with volume, an Achievement card built around your biggest lift, a stark Ink statement, a Muscle Map, and a Photo card if you attached one - plus a Receipt, a PR certificate or a lift trend when the session earns them. Choose square or 9:16 story, flip light or dark, and toggle which stats appear. See the share-cards guide for the full set.