How does FitHero track my workout progress?

FitHero tracks your progress by letting you log sets against a chosen exercise, then turning those logs into charts and personal records you can review over time. It is built for anyone who wants to replace a paper notebook at the gym or at home, and the app is described as free to get for Android and iOS. According to the site, your data is only shown to you.

What you can log

FitHero records the core variables of a training session, plus a few advanced ones:

• Weight and reps — the standard strength set.
• Time and distance — for timed or cardio-style work.
• Estimated 1RM — a derived strength figure based on your logged sets.
• RPE — rate of perceived exertion, so you can note how hard a set felt.
• Supersets, tri-sets, and giant sets — grouped exercises recorded together.

The tracking flow

The site describes the logging loop in three steps:

1. Select a routine, or pick from a library of 400+ exercises. You start from something you already plan to do rather than building a session from scratch.
2. Press an exercise and log your sets for today. That is the whole entry step — no separate screen for saving.
3. View previous logs for that exercise on the same screen. History sits next to today's entry, so you can compare without navigating away.

The expected result is that each session becomes a dated record tied to a specific exercise, which is what later feeds the charts and records.

How progress is visualised

• Charts turn your logged sets into a visual trend, so changes over weeks are visible rather than buried in a list.
• Personal records are tracked separately, giving you a running best for the lifts you care about.
• Privacy is stated plainly: your data is only shown to you.

Practical details worth knowing

What users report

The site quotes app-store reviewers. One Android user describes being a new lifter teaching themselves, and calls the app "game changing" for its organisation and the hundreds of listed workouts with instructions, noting that short built-in videos were added. An iOS user calls it "clean, intuitive, no ads" with constant updates. Another Android user highlights that it is minimalist but full of built-in exercises, has no ads and no paywalls, and — importantly for tracking — lets you add your own exercises and create combo flows as you go.

That last point matters if your training does not fit a standard library: custom exercises and combos still get logged and charted like the built-in ones.

Where to start

If you want to see whether the tracking fits your routine, the lowest-effort test is to log one session: pick a routine or a single exercise, enter your sets, then check the chart and personal-record view for that exercise the next day. If the history and visualisation match how you think about your training, the rest of the app follows the same pattern.