Volym’s in-workout editor is designed to give you complete control over each training session—whether you’re a beginner looking for guidance or a more advanced lifter with specific progression targets in mind. Below is an overview of the various features that make customizing, tracking, and adjusting your workouts fast and intuitive.
1. Setting Up Your Workout
Every workout in Volym includes exercises with target rep ranges, weights, and reps per set. You can tailor these parameters to align with your goals—whether that’s building strength, focusing on hypertrophy, or boosting endurance.
- Rep Range Selection: Choose from preset ranges (e.g., Strength, Hypertrophy, or Endurance) or create a custom range for each exercise.
- Weight Increments: Define how much weight should increase set to set (or disable increments entirely).
- Progression Overwrites: If you need to override Volym’s default progression, simply toggle the overwrite option and set your own parameters.
For more on how Volym optimally progresses your workouts over time, see Auto Progression.
2. Managing Warm-Up Sets
Instead of guessing how to warm up, Volym can automatically generate warm-up sets based on your target weights. You’ll see recommendations for:
- Number of Warm-Up Sets: Typically 1–3 based on how heavy your working set is.
- Progressive Weights: Each warm-up set uses a percentage of your target weight to gradually ramp up.
- Adjustable Reps: You can keep reps higher for lighter loads and drop them as you get closer to your working weight.
These guidelines ensure you’re ready for your main sets without burning out. To learn more, visit Adaptive Warm-Up Sets.
3. Editing Exercises and Sets
Within any workout, you have the flexibility to modify details on the fly:
- Adding or Removing Sets: Tap an exercise to increase or decrease the number of sets you want to perform.
- Replacing Exercises: Quickly swap one exercise for another if equipment is unavailable or you’d like to try something different.
- Logging Notes: Jot down technique cues, how you felt during a set, or any other reminders. These notes stay with your workout history for future reference.
4. Incorporating Supersets
Supersets let you chain multiple exercises back-to-back without rest in between, saving time and upping intensity. In Volym:
- Select the exercises you want to combine.
- Specify how many rounds you plan to complete.
- Perform them as a “super set” moving seamlessly from one exercise to the next before resting.
Supersets are perfect for pairing complementary movements (like biceps and triceps) or speeding up a workout when you’re short on time.
5. Adding Instructions and Feedback
Each exercise can include additional fields to guide your performance:
- Instructions: Enter specific tempo guidelines (e.g., “3-second negative”), recommended rest times, or rep-target cues.
- Reps in Reserve (RIR): Note how many reps you want “in the tank” for each set.
- Progression Feedback: Let Volym know if a set was too easy or too challenging, helping the app fine-tune future sessions.
This level of detail is especially handy for advanced lifters who want to log exact training parameters and push progression methodically.
6. Keeping Time with the Rest Timer
If you’d like to track your rest intervals precisely, Volym includes a built-in Rest Timer. After completing a set, start the timer to ensure consistent recovery between sets. Check out Rest Timer to see how it can automatically sync with your workout flow or adjust to your personal rest preferences.
7. Finalizing Your Session
When you’re finished with your workout, you have two primary options:
- Finish Workout: This simply ends the session and logs it to your history.
- Finish Workout & Update Session: This option tells Volym to adjust your session based on the changes you made during the workout, so your next session has the same structure.
Putting It All Together
Volym’s workout editor streamlines the process of structuring your training session—from setting warm-up sets and tracking rest times to creating supersets and logging your performance notes. Whether you’re optimizing for strength, hypertrophy, or simply exploring new movements, the editor gives you the flexibility to tailor each workout to your exact needs.
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With these tools at your disposal, you can make every set count and keep progressing toward your goals—one workout at a time.