Zyra Workouts is in development and not yet on the App Store; screens may change before release.
A gym profile in Zyra Workouts is a small thing — a bar weight and a list of plate sizes — but three features read it: the plate calculator under the keypad, the red wand that says a recommended load cannot be built, and the size of the jump Smart Progression takes on barbell lifts. Getting it right on day one saves a lot of "why does it want 102.5?" later.
What it does
The card lives at More → Gym profiles. Each profile has a name, an icon, a bar weight and the plate sizes available per side.
| Setting | Options | Default ("My Gym") |
|---|---|---|
| Bar | 10 kg · 15 kg · 20 kg | 20 kg |
| Plates per side | 20 · 15 · 10 · 5 · 2.5 · 1.25 kg, each on or off | all six on |
| Profiles | any number, exactly one active | one |
The card shows each profile as a row — "20 kg bar · 6 plate sizes" — with an ACTIVE tag on the one in use, a New button at the top, and a "…" menu per row with Set active, Edit equipment, Rename and (when there is more than one) Delete.
Step by step
- Open the inventory. More → Gym profiles → "…" on a profile → Edit equipment. The same sheet opens from the Edit link on any plate calculator panel during a workout, and from the red wand's "Edit plate inventory" button.
- Pick the bar. Tap 10 kg, 15 kg or 20 kg. Most Olympic bars are 20 kg; many women's bars are 15 kg; a short technique bar is often 10 kg.
- Toggle plates. Under "Available plates · per side", tap a size to turn it off or on. Turned-off sizes dim. The app keeps at least one size on — you cannot empty the list.
- Done. The footer reminds you: "The calculator only uses plates you have."
- A second gym. Tap New, type a name, Create. The profile is copied from whatever was active (same bar, same plates) and becomes active immediately, so edit its equipment next. Switching back later is one tap on the row.
What the numbers mean
The inventory feeds three calculations, all in kilograms.
- Plate breakdown. For a target load
Tand barB, the per-side weight is(T − B) / 2, filled greedily from the largest plate you have downward. Whatever cannot be filled is the remainder — see using the plate calculator. - Loadable or not. A barbell load is loadable when it is at least the bar weight and the remainder is zero. Anything else turns the Smart Progression wand red.
- Barbell step. Smart Progression moves barbell loads by
2 × smallest plate: 2.5 kg with 1.25 kg plates on, 5 kg if 2.5 kg is your smallest, 10 kg if 5 kg is. Dumbbell, machine and cable exercises always step 2 kg; bodyweight exercises progress by reps instead. This is why a home gym without fractional plates gets bigger jumps: the app will not recommend a weight you cannot load.
In plain terms: the profile is the app's picture of your rack; every load it shows or suggests is built from that picture.
Gotchas
- Kilogram plates only. With the lb setting the weights you type and see are in pounds, but the inventory is kg sizes, and the breakdown label is in kg. Pound-plate gyms are not modelled yet.
- No 15 kg in the label order. The breakdown text lists 20, 10, 5, 2.5 and 1.25 first and appends 15 kg plates after them, so a 95 kg load reads with the 15 at the end rather than in size order. The plates are right; the order is a display quirk.
- New profiles copy, they do not reset. If your active profile is a stripped-down home gym, a new "Commercial" profile starts stripped down too — turn the plates back on.
- Editing from the options menu activates that profile first. The inventory sheet always edits the active profile, so "Edit equipment" on a non-active row switches to it.
- Profiles sync with an account. If you sign in, the gym document is part of what backs up; on a fresh device the profiles come back.
The short version
More → Gym profiles. Set the bar (10, 15 or 20 kg) and tap off the plate sizes you do not have; the app keeps one profile active and reads it for the plate breakdown, the red wand and the barbell step (2 × smallest plate). Add a profile per gym; new ones copy the active one and take over until you switch back. Zyra Workouts is a training log, and this page describes one of its features as built today. Educational overview only — not medical advice.