Wick: Wellbeing & Workout

Weighted Chest Dip, Weighted Pull-Up and Weighted Back Extension had nowhere to put the weight. Nor did the other fifty-four lifts you can hang a belt off: the kilos column was hidden on anything the app filed as bodyweight, so a dip with 20 kg on it went into your log as a dip. Every lift has the column now, reading +KG where the number is what you have added to yourself, and that weight counts towards your load, your overload chart and your records exactly as any other kilo does. The line under the KG column on a barbell lift asks you a question now rather than telling you what to type. Plates, or the total with the bar in it? Answer it once, in the workout, and every barbell lift in your log is read that way — the ones already there as well as the next one. The setting for it is still in Settings, if you would rather change it there. The question mark on Strength opens a ladder. What each band actually means, from Starting out to Elite, and then your own lines in kilos for all five lifts, with the next one you would reach picked out. Lifts you have never logged are dimmed rather than quietly left out. Those published lines are different for men and women, and the card now says which set it is measuring you against. Health is not always told, and when it has not been the card says so instead of picking one and keeping quiet about it. You can set it yourself either way. Your own weight was always in those figures and still is: every line is a multiple of it, so they move when you do. Progressive overload counts back in sevens from today rather than from Monday. The newest bar used to be however much of this week had happened — two days of it on a Tuesday, read against seven whole days behind it, which looks like a collapse and is nothing of the sort. Every bar covers seven whole days now, so the one on the end means the same thing as the ones beside it. Progress is grouped under headings: THIS WEEK, LOAD, HOW YOU TRAIN, WHERE YOU STAND, YOUR BESTS. Three of the cards fold away as well — the strength breakdown, your personal bests and your records — and each keeps a line on its header while it is shut, the band or the count, so you can see which is worth opening without opening all three to find out. VO2 max used to carry two lines of grey text explaining which of your numbers Apple's estimate came from, one of which was too long for the card and arrived as a sentence about nothing. Both are behind the i now, where the rest of this screen keeps its workings. The set card on the watch is two columns, kilos and reps, each with its own arrows and the number big enough to read at arm's length, and the tick across the bottom. Under them sits a strip with both body diagrams, what the lift works and what you lifted last time; tap it for the full page with the photo and how to do it. It used to paint a quarter of the screen and leave it empty, with a slab of yellow underneath that could not be tapped, and the numbers you came to read squeezed into what was left. The template cards on Training are the name, how many exercises are in it, and the two buttons. They used to print the first four lifts and their sets as well, which meant scrolling past two routines to reach the third. Five fit on a screen now, and what is in one is still a tap away under EDIT. Opening the app and going straight to a workout no longer scores your lifts as though Health knew nothing about you. Your weight and your bar are in from the first screen rather than from the first refresh.