
Metric - Barbell Tracker 4+
Bar speed & gym workout log
Core Advantage Pty Ltd
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Elevate your training with bar speed tracking in Metric. Velocity based training, barbell velocity, tempo & bar path. Includes workout planner, video storage & analytics.
Level up your training with Metric VBT, the only app you need for bar speed tracking, bar path, velocity based training (VBT) and now a full workout builder.
Log all your exercises, sets, reps and RPE values in the gym and thanks to the Metric VBT patented barbell velocity tracking algorithm use the camera on your iPhone/iPad to accurately track the velocity, tempo and range of motion for all your barbell lifts — No hardware or VBT devices required!
Why Train with Metric VBT?
Metric is the complete training log solution, not just for strength and conditioning coaches, powerlifters, athletes, and dedicated lifters, but for anyone looking to fully understand and optimize their workout performance.
With velocity tracking on 60+ exercises, 100+ manual exercises in the app library and the ability to create your own custom lifts, Metric is a complete weight lifting and strength training app. Helping lifters track their progress, stay motivated, and maximize gains.
Key Features:
- Record & Import your lifting videos: Quick setup, zero hardware issues, and more time focusing on your lifts. Just point and shoot. Deep dive into your technique and performance with HD video that you can easily save video in app, share with your coach, or export to your camera roll. Record in-app for real-time feedback and detailed lifting analysis or import your videos after the session to review your performance.
- Accurate bar speed tracking: Externally validated for accuracy, Metric delivers velocity, fatigue, tempo, power & ROM data without the need for additional hardware. Enabling velocity based training in your workouts.
- Real-time feedback: Get audible alerts during your sets as you hit or miss velocity targets or fall below your velocity loss thresholds.
- Bar Path Tracking: Get a detailed bar path trace for every rep, allowing you to easily analyse technique.
- Estimated 1RM: Automatically measure and track progress on the one rep max of all your lifts every single session. Thanks to velocity based training - a proven and reliable way to accurately predict your 1RM from regular training with just velocity and load information
- Workout Templates: Build and save your workout templates in advance, drastically improving the efficiency of logging your workouts. Record your velocity tracked lifts and manually enter your other lifts to log and plan your entire workout in one app.
- Progress insights: Stay motivated and track performance with velocity trends. Provides you with a snapshot of progress on strength, power and bar speed over time, crucial for assessing real-time fatigue levels and long-term performance gains.
You can download and use Metric for free, or subscribe in-app to a Pro or Teams account and get advanced features and training analytics.
How to record velocity with Metric:
Using Metric to record your velocity in the gym is straightforward. Start a workout, select your exercise, enter the weight and open the camera. Position your phone side-on to the barbell and frame the video to capture your entire set within the video frame. Press record and complete your reps, when finished, your data is ready as soon as you hit stop.
Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s New
Version 5.1.2
Bug fixes and stability improvements
Ratings and Reviews
Good and accurate speeds but needs tweaks
Speeds seem very comparable to the Gymaware but the inability to save sets is annoying. Also, if you click on a video sometimes you cannot click off it without closing the app which is frustrating
Developer Response ,
Hey, we fixed the video bug! And you can now also save yoru training data in the app - we hav come along way in the last 12 months (including finding the spot where we can respond to user feedback in the app store!)
Good App
I love this for providing more context and date for my training. Really helps with just seeing how speed is lost later on in an set. I would say to improve it, add pause variations so for the pro version it doesn’t affect data sets. Pro version is an faf to get too
Developer Response ,
Pro does now feature pause metrics!
Absolutely superb for optimising your training!
The app is brilliant. Superb for checking / tracking form and progression at the same time. I took an annual sub out after 5 days with no need to let the trial run out. Worth knowing that the more recent app releases have transformed the app so any older reviews you may not be applicable.
I’ve configured it for power (max/peak plus average) and rom metrics, as power is the output measure I’m most interested in and Rom is important as a proxy for form/fatigue. Through those metrics ( :) ) I can see more precisely what my fatigue levels are and conversely when I should be adding weight as progression.
Power also gives a new programming option for “max average power for x reps”, beyond just “max weight for x reps”, so effectively doubles the number of exercises.
It’s not just a “you don’t need an accelerometer / cord attached to the barbell” solution… video is actually better, particularly high frame rate video, as it gives you form analysis, not just power and bar path, given that you can calculate for that at all, which nearly all other apps can’t.
Honestly can’t recommend it highly enough if you are at all interested in optimising your performance with barbell exercises.
For avoidance of doubt, I’m not affiliated to the devs in any way. I’m a user of the most popular S&P app but wanted more performance analysis, so spent a long time looking at accelerometers and then came across this app by chance and quickly realised how powerful ( ;) ) an app it is and get the sense that it will only continue to get even better.
App Privacy
The developer, Core Advantage Pty Ltd, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Health & Fitness
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
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- User Content
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Provider
- Core Advantage Pty Ltd
- Size
- 42.8 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Core Advantage Pty Ltd
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Pro - Monthly £6.99
- Metric Pro - Monthly (Legacy) £12.99
- Pro - Monthly (Legacy) £12.99
- Metric Pro - Annual (Legacy) £89.99
- Pro Coach +5 £23.99
- Pro Family - Monthly £14.99
- Metric Pro (Legacy) £79.99
- Pro - Annual £54.99
- Pro Coach +10 £32.99
- Pro Coach +20 £349.99