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How Lift works

A no-frills lifting log. Mobile-first, designed for the gym.

The program

You follow a 4-session upper/lower split that rotates: Upper 1 → Lower 1 → Upper 2 → Lower 2. Day-of-week doesn't matter — when you finish a session, the app shows whatever's next in line. Train 4×/week and you do all four; train 3 days some week, you just pick up where you left off.

Each session has 4-7 exercises with a target sets × reps and a target weight. The form ↗ link on each exercise opens a YouTube search for a quick form video.

Logging

Tap Start on the Today tab. For each set, fill in:

  • kg — what you actually lifted (pre-filled with the target)
  • reps — what you actually got
  • RPE — how hard it felt (6 = easy, 10 = grinding to failure)

Tap log on each row. Edit a saved row with ↺. Tap Finish session when you're done.

How the weight progresses

The app uses double progression with an RPE gate:

  • Hit the top of the rep range on every working set with RPE ≤ 7.5 → next time, more weight (+2.5 kg most lifts, +5 kg lower-body compounds, +1 kg dumbbells).
  • Anything less → repeat the same weight next session.
  • Stuck for 3 sessions in a row → the app drops you 10% (deload), and you build back up.

Assisted Pull-Up is the exception — less assist weight is harder, so it progresses downward.

Rep ranges

Two buckets: compounds 5-8 (Bench, Squat, OHP, RDL, Incline) for strength, everything else 8-12 for hypertrophy. Face Pull is the one outlier at 12-15.

Backed by Schoenfeld's 2017/2021 meta-analyses — heavy loads beat light loads for 1RM strength, but hypertrophy is similar across rep ranges with matched effort.

Tabs

  • Today — what's next, target weights, start a session.
  • History — every finished session with the lifts you hit. Tap a card for the full set log.
  • Plan — your full 4-session program with current targets.
  • Account — your name, sign-out.

Accounts

Each account gets its own program and history, fully isolated. Sign-up needs an invite code from the app owner. Once signed up, you stay logged in for a year on each device.

The point

Show up, log it, watch the weights creep up over the weeks. Don't overthink — pick a target, hit your sets, finish, walk out.

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