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How strength sessions work in NOYU

Add the exercises and sets your wearable cannot see, then keep them beside the workout in your NOYU activity history.

James ParsloeBy James3 min read

Add the exercises and sets your wearable cannot see. A watch can show that training happened, but a strength session tells NOYU what you actually did.

Strength tracking is currently being tested with a small group of early-access members on the NOYU website. If it is enabled for you, it appears at the top of Fitness.

Log a strength session

Open Fitness and choose Log strength. Add each exercise, then record the fields that fit it, such as load and repetitions, time, distance, or repetitions completed within a time.

Tick a set when it is complete. You can mark it as a warm-up, normal, failure or drop set. A failure set records repetitions you fully completed. If you completed none, leave the set incomplete and add a note rather than recording a repetition that did not happen.

Choose Finish when the session is done. Incomplete sets stay visible but do not count as performed work.

Your draft saves after each confirmed change, so you can leave the page and continue it from Fitness.

Use kilograms or pounds

Your exercise library has a default unit of kilograms or pounds. You can also change the unit for one exercise without changing the rest.

NOYU keeps the value and unit you entered. This means a set recorded in pounds still appears in pounds when you return to it.

Save a workout as a template

After finishing a session, choose Save as template if you expect to repeat it. A template stores its exercises and target sets for reuse.

Starting a template creates a separate session. Changing the template later does not rewrite a session you already logged, and its targets do not count as performed work until you complete the new sets.

Add exercises to a wearable workout

If a compatible workout has already arrived from your wearable, open that activity and choose Add exercises. NOYU keeps the wearable's timing and heart-rate data, then adds your exercises and sets to the same workout.

If you logged the strength session separately, NOYU may offer to link it to an overlapping wearable workout. Linking keeps one workout in your activity history rather than showing both.

What NOYU can learn from it

Completed strength sessions give NOYU more context about your training, including the exercises performed, completed sets and repetitions, and the loads you entered. NOYU can compare later sessions with your own earlier performance and use that context alongside recovery, sleep and other health data.

This record does not tell NOYU whether your technique was safe or diagnose an injury. It is evidence of the work you logged, not proof that one programme caused a change.

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