OpenLift Workout Journal vs Echo

OpenLift is a training journal for people who want more than a simple workout tracker. Plan your workouts, log every set, follow progression, track nutrition, record body measurements, and keep your training history in one clear place. OpenLift helps you understand what you did, how things are moving, and what makes sense to do next. WORKOUT PLANS Use structured programs built around your goal, level, and available equipment. Whether you train for strength, hypertrophy, calisthenics, or general fitness, OpenLift gives you a clear plan to follow instead of leaving every session to guesswork. WORKOUT JOURNAL Log sets, reps, weight, rest, RPE/RIR, notes, and exercise details during training. Your workout history stays organized so you can compare sessions, review performance, and see how your training changes over time. CUSTOM WORKOUT BUILDER Create your own workout templates, choose exercises, configure sets and reps, reorder movements, and prepare sessions before you enter the gym. PROGRESSION PLAYBOOKS Use progression rules that turn completed workouts into clearer next steps. OpenLift helps you see when to increase, hold, or adjust based on your training history and performance. NUTRITION AND MEASUREMENTS Track food, body weight, measurements, and progress photos alongside your training. Even imperfect logs can give useful context for strength, recovery, and body composition changes. ANALYTICS THAT STAY PRACTICAL Review personal records, volume, estimated strength trends, exercise history, and muscle group distribution. The goal is not more data for its own sake. It is a clearer picture of your progress. BUILT FOR REAL TRAINING Missed workouts, failed sets, partial logs, and busy weeks are part of the process. OpenLift keeps your history usable so you can continue without feeling like you need to start over. OpenLift is designed for lifters, calisthenics athletes, and anyone who wants a clearer training journal for long-term progress.

Echo creates one complete Strava activity from your equipment data and watch heart rate. It also puts split activities back together — when your watch died mid-run, you accidentally stopped, or you paused too long between sets. When you do a spinning or rowing class, your gym equipment records power, cadence, and speed — while your watch records heart rate. Both end up on Strava as separate, incomplete activities. Your equipment shows fake heart rate data. Your watch is missing power and cadence. Echo fixes this in one tap. And when a single workout ends up as two or three separate activities — because of a gap, a restart, or a device switch — Echo finds the pieces and puts them back together. HOW IT WORKS 1. Work out as normal — gym equipment, watch, or both 2. Open Echo — it finds matching activities and shows what data comes from where 3. Tap to upload — one complete activity on Strava, originals hidden from your feed Your Strava activity now shows real heart rate alongside power, cadence, and speed. Strava computes Relative Effort and Training Load from the actual data. WORKS WITH Gym equipment: • Spinning bikes via Spivi, Technogym, Peloton • Rowing machines via ErgData / Concept2 • Any equipment that syncs via a vendor app Running and outdoor: • Runna, Garmin, COROS, Polar • Any app that records to Strava or Apple Health Heart rate from your watch via Apple Health. PRIVACY All processing happens on your iPhone. Echo sends anonymous usage statistics to help improve the app — no names, no activity data, no health data. No third-party analytics. No ads. Full privacy policy: echo.stephankurz.com/privacy DETAILS • Power, cadence, speed, distance, altitude, GPS, and heart rate • Combines split activities with pause events preserved • Standard FIT files with per-source device attribution • Preserves activity name, type, gear, and description • Hides originals from your Strava feed (optional) • Skips already-uploaded activities Requires a Strava account and iOS 17+.