Category: Enode Pro training
This is the whole session in one article: shaping the workout before it starts, tracking live reps, saving each set, reviewing the numbers on the spot, and finishing cleanly. For your very first run through, see Getting started with Enode Pro.
Before you start: the preparation drawer
Every workout passes through the preparation drawer, whether it came from The Portal's schedule, a template, or was created on the spot. This is where you shape today's session. The plan on the server stays untouched.
- Name the workout and add notes and tags.
- Pick the athletes. Add or remove participants, which is useful when two athletes swap in at the door.
- Add and reorder exercises. Search finds exercises even with partial words, and offers a "did you mean?" suggestion for typos. Star the ones you use often to keep them at hand.
- Edit each exercise's prescription: volume, intensity, exertion and set count.
- Edit several exercises at once. Select multiple items and change their prescription together. If the selected exercises are too different to edit as one group, the app says so instead of merging them silently, and asks before a shared change overwrites individual settings.
Closing the drawer with unsaved changes prompts you to confirm, so a stray tap does not throw away your edits.
Caption: The prep drawer is where you shape today's session. Nothing you change here touches the plan in The Portal.
Press Start and the training view opens. The app first checks that a recording slot is free; see Running multiple workouts on one tablet if you hit the limit.
Athletes the app will not record
An athlete whose plan does not include recording can still be shown as a participant. The app warns you when you add them, marks their name, and records nothing for them. If nobody in the workout can record, it cannot be started. Athletes archived in The Portal no longer appear in the app. And if you are starting a downloaded day offline, athletes whose exercises were not included in the download are flagged before you start.
During the set
Open an exercise and the tracking view appears: a sticky header with the exercise, the athlete, the headline metric and the rest timer, the set list below, and live feedback in the centre.
- Every rep appears the instant it happens, flashed on screen with its headline metric value.
- A live effort readout estimates how close the athlete is to failure, updating from the velocity trend as the set progresses. It works even without a stored 1RM.
- The stop indicator changes the card's colour when the set's prescribed stop criterion is met, for example a velocity-loss threshold. That is your signal to end the set.
End a set with the confirm or discard buttons, or let the inactivity countdown confirm it automatically once the bar has been still for a while.
If you prefer to review before anything is saved, turn on the set summary step in the options menu. The draft set is shown first, and you can rule out or delete reps before confirming. If a new rep arrives while the summary is open, the app saves the draft and keeps recording, so a hesitation never loses a rep.
Caption: Every rep appears the moment the sensor detects it, with the headline metric for that exercise.
Between sets
The rest timer counts down to the recommended rest, or counts up from the end of the last set. Tap it to flip between the two and the app remembers your choice. The countdown turns red at zero.
Switching without leaving the screen
Tap the athlete avatar to rotate through athletes on this exercise. Tap the exercise name to jump to another exercise with the same athlete. For single-side work, use the side toggle to switch between left and right.
The options menu
The tracking view's options menu holds the per-exercise preferences: headline metric, feedback mode, voice feedback, single-rep review, eccentric reps, the set summary step, and the sensor's movement threshold. Settings are remembered between sessions.
The screen stays awake while any station is training, so there are no mid-set lock screens.
Completing and editing a set
When a set ends, the complete-set sheet opens with everything the sensor detected already filled in: reps, load, exertion and the rest target, plus a suggested reps-in-reserve value. Adjust anything, then save. The same sheet reopens later to edit any completed set.
Entering numbers. Measurement fields use a numeric keyboard built for the gym floor, with a layout per type of value. Load, velocity, percentage, reps, RIR and times each get the keys they need and nothing else. An accessory bar steps between fields without closing the keyboard, and optional values like exertion and rest can be cleared entirely.
Setting the load. The stepper pill nudges the load down or up, with fine steps at light loads and coarser steps above 20 kg, and tapping the value lets you type an exact number. Inside the load keyboard, a velocity profile strip shows the predicted velocity at the chosen load, where it sits as a percentage of 1RM, and the athlete's peak-power and peak-load zones; drag along the strip to slide the load. Suggested loads snap to weights you can actually put on a bar. Flywheel exercises take an inertia value instead of a mass, and bodyweight exercises show load relative to bodyweight, such as "BW" or "BW +10 kg".
Caption: The load keyboard shows the predicted velocity at each load, so you can pick the weight from the outcome you want.
Working with individual reps. Expand the reps card to see every rep. Select one or several and mark them invalid or delete them. Your call always beats the automatic check; see Invalid reps and rejected lifts.
Other things you can do from here. Tap the 1RM value to edit it, where an overridden value is marked and one tap returns it to the automatic estimate. Notes and tags can be attached at workout, session, set and rep level. You can move a set to another exercise or athlete where equipment and exercise type match, and both plans rebuild around the change. You can also exchange the exercise mid-session, for example when the planned rack is taken: history, estimates and the set plan follow to the replacement, and once sets are completed only similar exercises are offered.
Deleting a set also deletes its recorded video clip.
Reviewing the session on the spot
Insights is the analysis view inside a session, so you can see what the work looked like without leaving the gym floor. Open it with the chart button in the tracking view. On a wide screen it can sit beside the tracking pane, so live reps and analysis are visible at once. There are three tabs.
Overview gives seven summary cards for the current session: 1RM, volume load, highest load, total reps, sets, average rest and total time, each with its trend and a mini chart. Below them sit the athlete's recent completed sessions of this exercise, for instant week-over-week context.
Performance shows the exercise's headline metric as a full chart, a breakdown of the best set, and a load-response chart once the session includes more than one load. Every other measured metric is available further down. Tapping a set highlights it across all charts at once, which makes "look what happened in set three" a one-tap conversation.
Technique is rep-level analysis. Pick a set and a rep, which follows the newest recorded set automatically, then scrub a shared crosshair across the charts: power and force, velocity and acceleration, bar angle charts with a barbell illustration that tilts as you scrub, and the bar path with force directions. If the set has a video clip, it plays here, locked to the same timeline.
Insights is about this session and this exercise. Long-term trends, cross-athlete comparisons and exports live in The Portal.
Caption: On a wide screen, session insights sit next to the workout.
Finishing
Tap Finish training. The app saves the result to the device's upload queue first, closes the training immediately, and uploads in the background. You never wait on the network to put the tablet down, and the result appears in The Portal's history once the upload completes.
You will see a brief lock over the station while the result is committed. If the result cannot even be saved to the queue, because the disk is full for example, the app blocks with a clear choice: retry, or keep training so nothing is lost. You will also get the keep sensor connected? prompt, defaulting to yes, so the next athlete can start on the same station without re-pairing. Backing out of that prompt changes nothing.
Finishing with nothing recorded. If you finish a training that recorded no sets, the app asks first. The workout's setup, meaning its exercises, athletes and edits, exists only on the device until something is recorded, so finishing empty would discard it silently. Confirm, or go back and record.
Discarding. Discard throws the session away after a confirmation. Discarded sessions and their local videos are gone, and there is no undo.
Leaving by accident. A hardware back press or an edge swipe during a training raises a "leave training?" check, so a pocket gesture cannot end a session.
Related articles: Connecting and placing your sensor · Running multiple workouts on one tablet · Training modes, metrics and feedback · Training offline and syncing later