Under the hood · 13
Set types, attachments and supersets
What each set type counts toward, how drop sets and rest-pause are proposed from your own history, why a cable attachment changes which sessions you're compared with, and how supersets alternate exercises without cramming them onto one screen.
A set is more than weight × reps. A warm-up shouldn’t drag your quality score down, a drop set shouldn’t count as a new e1RM, and a rope pushdown shouldn’t be compared with a straight-bar pushdown. Logex keeps one table of what every set type means, and everything that counts sets reads it.
In plain terms. Pick a set type and Logex tells you what it counts toward. Drop sets and rest-pause are offered from your own history, on loads your equipment can actually make. A cable exercise remembers its attachment, and “last time” only compares sessions done with the same one. Supersets link exercises without merging their screens: each keeps its own page, and ticking a set takes you to the next one.
What each set type counts toward
| Type | Volume | Weekly sets | Quality score | e1RM and records | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warm-up | – | – | – | – | Rest goal 1:00 |
| Working | ✓ | 1 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Back-off | ✓ | 1 | – | ✓ | Lighter by design, so it never lowers quality |
| Volume | ✓ | 1 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| To failure | ✓ | 1 | ✓ | ✓ | Read as RPE 10 when you leave RPE blank |
| AMRAP, 1RM | ✓ | 1 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Drop set | ✓ | ½ | – | – | Chained to the set before it; rest goal 0:10 |
| Rest-pause | ✓ | ½ | – | – | Chained to the set before it; rest goal 0:15 |
| Cool-down | – | – | – | – |
Unlabelled and unknown types count as Working sets, so older history keeps its numbers.
Why half a set for a drop or rest-pause? Each mini-set is short and starts already fatigued. Counting every drop as a full set would let three drops after one set look like four sets of chest work. The half credit is applied the same way as the RPE taper on weekly volume, so a drop set at RPE 5 is worth a quarter of a set.
Why no records? The reps of a drop or rest-pause are done tired. They say nothing about a fresh maximum, so they never set an e1RM, a PR or a rep record. They still count toward session volume.
Drop sets and rest-pause, from your own history
After a work set is ticked, a chip next to Add Set offers the next technique set, for example Drop 75×9. One tap adds it right after that set, filled in.
- The load comes from your own drop %: the median cut per drop step in your last 8 sessions (within 120 days), held between 10% and 50%. With no history the default is 25% on a pin stack or a dumbbell rack and 20% on a barbell. The result is rounded down to a step your equipment can make (a 2.5 lb cable pin, a 5 lb dumbbell, 1.25 kg in kg mode), and always at least one step lighter.
- The reps are what your drops usually keep of the set they extend (about 75% by default). A rest-pause keeps the load and about 40% of the reps.
- When it’s highlighted as a finisher: once your planned work is done (or after three work sets with no plan), if you used that technique in at least 40% of recent sessions (and at least two), or if a routine says to finish with it. With no habit, a volume day (or an exercise with no goal) on a movement that suits drops (cable, machine or dumbbell isolation) gets the highlight too; a strength day only on habit. Peak 1RM and deload days are never highlighted.
- Rest: the rest goal after a set with a drop queued is 10 seconds, not two minutes, and your usual rest ignores these short pauses.
Finishers in your plan
The exercise plan and routine lines have a Finish with choice: none, drop set, rest-pause or to failure. A drop set adds a 25% lighter row after the last work set; rest-pause adds a same-load row; to failure marks the last work set as Failure. Finisher rows are not counted as working sets, and a plan without a finisher is exactly the plan you had before.
Cable attachments
Exercises on a cable, plus pulldown and seated-row stations, show an attachment chip under the title. It starts from the attachment you used last time on that exercise, else the one the name implies (“Rope Pushdown”), else it asks. The picker lists the attachments that suit the movement first.
The attachment changes the numbers you are compared with. “Last time”, the live coach and the progress grade use sessions done with the same attachment. Sessions with no attachment recorded count as unknown and still apply, and if nothing matches, all of your history is used so you’re never left without a baseline.
Supersets
Link two or more exercises from the exercise menu (Superset with…), or with the chain button between two lines of a routine. Labels follow the gym-sheet convention: A1, A2 for the first superset, B1, B2 for the next.
- One page per exercise. Nothing is squeezed together. Each member’s page shows a slim strip with the round (A · 2/3) and a chip per member you can tap to jump.
- Round-robin. Ticking a set moves you to the next member that hasn’t done this round. When the round is closed, rest starts and you go back to the first member that still has sets. You can turn the switch off in the superset sheet.
- Rest goal is 15 seconds between members, then your normal rest after the round.
- Members always stay next to each other: reordering a routine keeps a superset together, and removing a member from a pair turns the other back into straight sets.