One log for the barbell and the bike.

The problem

Most lifters keep cardio in a second place

You finish five sets of squats, get on the stair climber for fifteen minutes, and then have nowhere sensible to put that. Lifting trackers want sets and reps. So the conditioning either goes in as a fake set at zero weight, or it goes in a notes field, or it goes nowhere.

None of that is fatal, but it adds up: six months later your log says you did nothing but lift, and the fifty conditioning sessions that were part of the same training block are invisible.

How it works

Same session, same sentence

There's no cardio mode to switch into and no second entry flow. Describe the whole session and the parts that have weight get recorded with weight, while the parts that have distance or time get recorded with those instead.

Each movement is then charted on the first metric it actually has, in the order weight, distance, duration, reps. Your squat progresses by load. Your rower progresses by distance. Nineteen sessions on the elliptical draw a real line rather than a flat one at zero.

• Weighted work — charted by load
• Runs, rows, and rides — charted by distance
• Planks, carries, and hangs — charted by time
• Bodyweight movements — charted by reps

Worth being clear about

Cardio doesn't move your volume number

Volume here means load moved — every rep at the weight it was moved at. Twenty minutes on the bike contributes nothing to it, and that's on purpose: the moment cardio starts inflating volume, the number stops being comparable from one week to the next and you lose the one figure that tells you whether your lifting is actually progressing.

So your conditioning shows up in its own progression, in the session itself, in your workout count and active days, and on the share card — just not in the volume total. If you want a single number that blends squats and stair climbing into one score, this isn't that.