History and progress
5 min readSee the pattern behind your training.
Every finished session flows into your history. This guide shows how to browse past workouts, open a session to review or fix it, and read the muscle overview so you can see where your effort actually went.
Your training history
History is the running list of everything you have done, newest first. Each entry is one session: the date, the exercises you trained, and a quick sense of the volume behind it. Scroll back as far as you like, it is all there.
This is the view to open when you want to answer a simple question like when you last trained legs, or what you benched two weeks ago. You do not have to remember, the log remembers for you.
An entry is a summary, not a wall of numbers. You see enough to recognize the session at a glance, and if you want the full detail you tap in. That keeps the list quick to skim even after months of training, when it has grown long.
The list is also where a season of training becomes visible. Scrolling back a few months, you can see the shape of what you have done: the busy stretches, the weeks off, the exercises that keep showing up. It is a record you build simply by training.
- 18:42Push day4×Bench Press · 3×Overhead Press · 3×Dips
- 17:05Pull day4×Barbell Row · 3×Lat Pulldown · 3×Biceps Curl
- 18:10Leg day4×Squat · 3×Romanian Deadlift · 3×Calf Raise
Opening a session
Tap any session to open it. Session detail shows every set exactly as you logged it: weights, reps, and the effort you recorded. It is the full record of that day.
You can edit here too. If you mistyped a weight, forgot to tick a set, or want to add a note after the fact, fix it in session detail. Your corrections flow through to your records and charts, so the numbers you rely on stay accurate.
Editing a past session is the same as editing during a live workout, so there is nothing new to learn. The only difference is that you are looking back instead of training in the moment. Add a missed set, remove one you logged twice, or fix a typo, and the record settles into what actually happened.
A quick habit that pays off: if something felt off during a set, drop a short note on it while it is fresh. Weeks later, that one line can explain a dip in the numbers that would otherwise be a mystery.
The muscle overview
Training one muscle hard is easy to notice; balancing your whole body is harder. The muscle overview adds up your recent work by muscle group so you can see the balance at a glance.
It is a quick gut check. If your push volume dwarfs your pull volume, or your legs have gone quiet for a while, the overview makes that obvious before it becomes a problem you feel.
How muscles are grouped follows the app tags, so the same exercise always lands in the same bucket. That consistency is what makes a week-to-week comparison meaningful: you are measuring the same thing each time you look.
You do not have to act on it every week. Sometimes the balance is exactly where you want it because of how you are training right now. The point is that you can see it, and make that call on purpose rather than by accident.
- Chest12.5sets/week
- Lats10.0sets/week
- Quads8.0sets/week
- Hamstrings4.5sets/week
What to look for
The most useful thing your history shows is consistency. Progress in the gym comes from showing up and adding a little over time, not from any single perfect session. A long, unbroken string of ordinary workouts beats a handful of heroic ones.
So when you read your history, look for the trend, not the outlier. Are you training roughly as often as you planned? Are the weights or reps creeping up across weeks? A here and there is a nice marker, but the steady line underneath it is the real story.
None of this needs a spreadsheet. Open your history now and then, glance at the trend, and adjust from there. The app does the remembering, so you can spend your attention on the training itself rather than on bookkeeping.
It also helps to zoom out on a single exercise. If your top set on a lift is heavier, or for more reps, than it was a month ago, that is progress, even if any one workout felt unremarkable. Small, repeated steps are what a long history is made of.
- Frequency: are you training about as often as you meant to?
- Direction: over several weeks, are loads or reps trending up?
- Balance: does the muscle overview look reasonably even for your goals?
Common questions
- Can I edit a workout from last month?
- Yes. Open it from History and edit any set. There is no time limit, and your changes flow through to your records and charts.
- Does the muscle overview tell me what to train next?
- No. It reports the volume you have already done, grouped by muscle. What to do with that is your call, or your coach guides it. Ironstead does not prescribe.
- How far back does my history go?
- All of it. Every session you have finished stays in your history, so you can look back as far as your training goes.
Go deeper on your lifts
Next, learn the exercise library, personal records, and how the app estimates your 1RM.
Exercises and 1RM guide