StrengthLog – Workout Tracker

Remember all that behind-the-scenes work we kept mentioning? Here’s what it was for. With v9.1, we’re taking StrengthLog beyond the training log itself, introducing three major new features: Social, AI integration, and Strava. Plus an improvement to Strength Levels and the usual bug fixes. First up, we’re introducing social features! Training is easier to stick with when someone else knows whether you’re showing up. And a little friendly competition rarely hurts. You can now add friends, see summaries of their workouts in your friends feed, give them a fist bump, and challenge each other to competitions. Bragging rights are optional. Mostly. We’re starting with a limit of 25 friends and no public profiles. That’s deliberate. We’re not building an influencer platform or the next big fitness social network. We want to help you stay consistent, encourage and support each other, and reach your goals. This is just the beginning. Try it, tell us what you like, and, more importantly, what you’d like us to add next. And since social features won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, yes, you can hide the widget on your home screen. Just long-press it to bring up the customization menu. Another big thing: we’ve opened up your training data to AI. If you’re a Premium subscriber, you can now connect StrengthLog to ChatGPT or Claude through MCP, giving your AI assistant read-only access to your training data. Ask it how your bench press has progressed, whether your training volume has changed, or what your workout history might suggest about your program. You can dig into years of training without digging through years of logs. Read-only means exactly that: the assistant can analyze your data, but it can’t edit workouts, rewrite programs, or delete anything. AI can be remarkably useful. It can also be remarkably confident when it’s wrong. We’d rather not let that confidence loose on your training history just yet. You control the connection and can turn it off whenever you like. You can set it up in Settings under StrengthLog MCP. We’ve also added a Strava connection. Connect Strava, and its activities will appear as events in your calendar, including older activities. We fetch them as you browse, so scrolling back in time may mean a short wait. Workouts you log in StrengthLog can also be sent to Strava. One caveat: Strava limits how long we can cache its data, so activities aren’t permanently imported. They remain available while your connection is active and disappear from the calendar within an hour of disconnecting. The Strava connection is also found under Settings. And finally, a little improvement to Strength Levels. Strength Levels can now suggest specific sets to get you to the next level. Say you’ve benched 72.5 kg for one rep and need an estimated 1RM of 80 kg to level up. You might see suggestions such as 80 kg for one rep or 72.5 kg for four. Different routes, same destination. We’ve also fixed bugs and made a number of smaller improvements. Some are exciting to us. We understand if you don’t share our enthusiasm for obscure software problems. That’s v9.1. Give the new features a try, especially Social, and tell us what you think at app@strengthlog.com.