Switching from Strong

Getting your file out of Strong

In the Strong app, open the Profile tab, tap the settings icon at the top left, scroll down and choose Export Strong Data. Strong makes a CSV file of every workout you have logged. Save it somewhere your phone can reach, such as your Files app or Google Drive, or send it to yourself.

Strong's file has your workout history only. Strong doesn't put your routines in it, which is why Durata rebuilds them from your history (below).

Importing it into Durata

In Durata, go to Settings, Data & Export, Import. On a new account, Import is also offered when you first sign up. Choose CSV File ("An export from Hevy, Strong or Durata") and pick the file.

Durata spots that it is a Strong file by itself. If the file says which unit the weights are in, that is used. If it doesn't, Durata asks: Which Unit Is This File In? Pick the unit you logged in, kg or lbs.

If you haven't logged anything in Durata yet, it takes your unit from the file, so your weights land as the numbers you actually lifted rather than a conversion. It tells you it has done this, and you can change it in Settings, Preferences. Once you have training of your own in Durata, imports convert into your unit instead.

What comes across

Each workout keeps its name, date and length. Each set keeps its weight and reps, and distance and time for cardio and timed exercises. RPE comes across if you logged it, and so do your workout notes and exercise notes.

Exercise names are matched to Durata's 451 exercises even when Strong words them differently. Anything that can't be matched comes in as a custom exercise with Strong's name, rather than being dropped, and the import lists the ones it made.

Imported workouts count everywhere your lifting does: records, estimated 1RM trends, muscle charts and the Previous column when you log. They don't count towards streaks and badges, which only count workouts logged in Durata.

After the import

When the import adds workouts, a short reel plays through your history. Its first screen, What just landed, counts the workouts added, the sets imported and the exercises matched, and says which unit the weights were read in. Any rows the file couldn't state clearly are listed there with the reason, so you can fix them in the file and import it again.

The last screen is about what to do next. Under You repeated these workouts, Durata lists the workouts you did more than once, each with how many exercises it has and how often you did it. Untick any you don't want and tap Create, which says how many it will make, such as Create 3 Sessions. Each one is made from your latest weights.

With more than one, Group Into a Weekly Plan then puts them in a plan, with the training days worked out from when you actually trained. The last button, Create & Start, asks for a start date, so you can finish the import with a plan already running.

Importing again

You can import a newer Strong file whenever you like. Workouts already in Durata are skipped, ones you changed in Strong are updated, and nothing is added twice. A file with nothing new says Already Up to Date. That makes it safe to keep using Strong for a while and bring the new workouts across later.

Your imported sessions come with no progression rules. To have Durata move the weights up for you, put them in a plan and set a rule on each lift (see Build Your Own Program).