Recommended workout tracking apps, devices, programs, protocols

eriktherealviking
eriktherealviking Posts: 13 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
What is your favorite workout tracking system?
How do you:
  • Plan your program
  • Log your workouts
  • View your progress
  • Share workouts and stats with your friends

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  • aokoye
    aokoye Posts: 3,495 Member
    Plan my program: Bike - TrainerRoad or Zwift typically; Run - a C25k like thing (Garmin's new dynamic coaching plan)
    Log my workouts: All of the run and outdoor bike stuff gets tracked with my Garmin Forerunner 935 and/or Edge 520 (I typically have it on but don't let it sync and have everything sync from the FR). Inside bike stuff gets uploaded to places via Zwift or TrainerRoad.
    View my progress: Everything gets synced to Garmin Connect, TrainingPeaks, and Strava. Also MFP but I don't use that for analyzing any sort of workout.
    Share workouts and stats with people: Strava. It all gets uploaded there anyways.
  • Djproulx
    Djproulx Posts: 3,084 Member
    eriktherealviking wrote: »
    What is your favorite workout tracking system?
    How do you:
    • Plan your program
    • Log your workouts
    • View your progress
    • Share workouts and stats with your friends

    OP, I use most of the same software tools noted by @aokoye above, with the exception of Strava. Unless you are pursuing endurance training, these tools may be of limited use to you.

    If you are interested in endurance training, I highly recommend Training Peaks as a comprehensive training tool. TP allows you to plan, track and analyze your individual workouts, and then view and analyze your historical and current fitness, your accumulated fatigue and race readiness. So if endurance sports are of interest to you, it is a great tool.
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    Anybody tried Xert?
  • eriktherealviking
    eriktherealviking Posts: 13 Member
    aokoye wrote: »
    Plan my program: Bike - TrainerRoad or Zwift typically; Run - a C25k like thing (Garmin's new dynamic coaching plan)
    Log my workouts: All of the run and outdoor bike stuff gets tracked with my Garmin Forerunner 935 and/or Edge 520 (I typically have it on but don't let it sync and have everything sync from the FR). Inside bike stuff gets uploaded to places via Zwift or TrainerRoad.
    View my progress: Everything gets synced to Garmin Connect, TrainingPeaks, and Strava. Also MFP but I don't use that for analyzing any sort of workout.
    Share workouts and stats with people: Strava. It all gets uploaded there anyways.

    I find that Garmin has a ton of support for biking, a bit less for outdoor (than biking) and very little for strength training.
    Thanks for the tip on Zwift. It looks awesome and I will try that out.

  • eriktherealviking
    eriktherealviking Posts: 13 Member
    NorthCascades wrote: »
    Anybody tried Xert?
    Is it https://www.xertonline.com?
    Not me, never seen it before. Would be interesting for a review.

  • MagnumOpus1
    MagnumOpus1 Posts: 161 Member
    I use an excel spreadsheet & note book. I like data but and trends but I also quite like writing something physically
  • eriktherealviking
    eriktherealviking Posts: 13 Member
    MagnumOpus1 wrote: »
    I use an excel spreadsheet & note book. I like data but and trends but I also quite like writing something physically
    If you are comfortable with it, can you share a screenshot of a typical days session log?

  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,611 Member
    Strava

    And Excel.
  • aokoye
    aokoye Posts: 3,495 Member
    eriktherealviking wrote: »
    aokoye wrote: »
    Plan my program: Bike - TrainerRoad or Zwift typically; Run - a C25k like thing (Garmin's new dynamic coaching plan)
    Log my workouts: All of the run and outdoor bike stuff gets tracked with my Garmin Forerunner 935 and/or Edge 520 (I typically have it on but don't let it sync and have everything sync from the FR). Inside bike stuff gets uploaded to places via Zwift or TrainerRoad.
    View my progress: Everything gets synced to Garmin Connect, TrainingPeaks, and Strava. Also MFP but I don't use that for analyzing any sort of workout.
    Share workouts and stats with people: Strava. It all gets uploaded there anyways.

    I find that Garmin has a ton of support for biking, a bit less for outdoor (than biking) and very little for strength training.
    Thanks for the tip on Zwift. It looks awesome and I will try that out.

    Yeah garmin is great for cycling and running, so-so for various other outdoors things depending on what it is (DC Rainmaker has a review of one of the watches tracking his ski runs), can apparently be great for things like flying and golf, and estimates the calorie burn for indoor rowing shockingly well (when compared to the results that concept 2's calculator gives me. For strength training though - you're not going to get a watch that'll be especially useful for that.
  • eriktherealviking
    eriktherealviking Posts: 13 Member
    Machka9 wrote: »
    Strava

    And Excel.

    What types of activities?
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,611 Member
    eriktherealviking wrote: »
    Machka9 wrote: »
    Strava

    And Excel.

    What types of activities?

    Cycling
    Walking
    Hiking
    Running

    And others ... like rowing when I go to the gym.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,941 Member
    Hiking: if flat I use lbs*miles*0.3, if strenuous I just guess. For other workouts such as interval bodyweight and swimming I have many years of data: difference between calories in and weight loss while just doing one type of exercise. Of course if maintenance calories are very different than what calculators come up with then this is more difficult. But I do have two database entries that work for me - both are different walking speeds :D I just want to have the calories and duration for swimming and bodyweight exercises, and don't care what it's called.
  • eriktherealviking
    eriktherealviking Posts: 13 Member
    I have been using FitNotes for my workout training for years. Its the best IMO for ease of use and the ability to setup the session and start lifting without tinkering for very long.
    Overall tracking is phenomenal with graphs and comparisons.
    Sharing options could be better, however you can copy the results to the clipboard and paste wherever (I share session results here in MFP on my wall).

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