Personal Records
Your personal records, scored honestly. Stale ones, dared.
The PR view scores each of your best lifts against an intermediate-lifter benchmark, marks Estimated 1RM vs True 1RM cleanly, and tags band-resisted work. When a lift hasn’t moved in eight-plus weeks, Rex picks it as today’s challenge and stays in your inbox until you beat the number.
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What you see on the page
One row per exercise. One honest score per row.
Personal Records lives at /fitness/personal-records. Filter by muscle group, search by name, or open any row for the full timeline of that lift.
NSI score, 0 to 150+
Normalized Strength Index. Each lift's best set is scored against an intermediate-lifter benchmark for your bodyweight. Sub-75 reads Below Avg, 75-89 Novice, 90-109 Average, 110-124 Intermediate, 125-149 Advanced, 150+ Elite. The numbers don't soft-pedal.
True 1RM vs Estimated 1RM
A real single-rep max gets a TRUE 1RM tag. Working-set bests get an ESTIMATED tag and a Lander-formula estimate, so you never accidentally compare your e1RM to someone else's actual 1RM.
Band-aware
Banded movements (band rows, banded face pulls, banded pull-aparts) get a BAND tag plus a conservative equivalent-load conversion. Your numbers stay honest against benchmarks built on free weights.
Muscle-group grouping
Rows group by muscle (Chest, Back, Shoulders, Biceps, Triceps, Quads, Hamstrings, Glutes, Core, Calves, Forearms). Tap a group header to collapse and find your way around fast.
Tap for the full timeline
Open any record and the per-exercise history chart appears: top-set weight, e1RM curve, every set you've logged on that lift over the months and years.
Search and filter
Search the whole list by name. Filter to "Benchmarked only" when you want to see just the lifts that have a comparable population baseline.
Rex’s Challenge
The lift that’s collecting dust gets dared.
Rex Dalton owns the stale-PR surface. Eight weeks without moving a lift is a problem. He picks one, posts the number you have to beat, and shows up in his voice.
Stale-PR detection
Any lift you've actually logged but haven't hit a new best on in 8+ weeks is eligible. Rex picks the most under-served candidate (older > newer, more lift-specific > less) and surfaces it on the Train hub.
New-lift challenge
If you have no history on a foundational lift Rex thinks you should be doing (Romanian deadlift, front squat, weighted pull-up), he sets a baseline challenge: log a real set, build from there.
Accept, attempt, log
Tap Accept and the challenge becomes the day's headline. Warm up properly, run the lift, log the result. Win one and the next stale lift surfaces tomorrow.
Win count and completed history
Completed challenges live in a separate list with the date you won them. The badge on the Train hub shows your active challenge until you close it out.
How the NSI score works
Population data, your bodyweight, your numbers.
For weight-loaded lifts, the Normalized Strength Index reads your best estimated 1RM (Lander formula on your top working set) against an intermediate-lifter target for your bodyweight on that movement. 100 means you are exactly at the intermediate benchmark. 130 means you are roughly 30% above it.
For rep-based exercises (pull-ups, dips, push-ups, hanging leg raises), the score reads your best honest rep count against the same population baseline. Bodyweight-loaded lifts use a separate target table tuned for the movement.
The NSI score is not your max effort; it’s a working-set read. Across a few weeks of training, your NSI on a given lift will rise (or stall) at roughly the rate your actual strength does. If it stalls, Rex is watching.
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