How Yield helps with plate math between sets

A lifter finishes a set, and the coach calls for the next one at a new weight. Now there's a bar loaded with a mess of plates and thirty seconds to work out what to add or remove, while still breathing hard from the last set. A tester once described it exactly this way: the blood rushes out of your head trying to do even simple math right after a set.

What Yield tells you instead of a number

Rather than just showing a new total weight and leaving you to work out the plates, Yield describes the actual change: "swap a 5 for a 2.5," "add a 10," "remove the 5s." It's the difference between doing arithmetic mid-fatigue and just following an instruction.

That instruction comes from working out both the old and new load as an actual stack of plates, per side, using the standard denominations found on a normal barbell. The app compares the two stacks and tells you only what's different.

Where this assumes something about your gym

This math assumes a standard bar and a standard commercial plate set: 45, 35, 25, 10, 5, and 2.5 lb (or the kilogram equivalents). It doesn't know what plates you personally own. For the vast majority of gyms and home setups, that's the right assumption. If your gym runs an unusual plate set, you might occasionally be told to grab a denomination it doesn't have. Tracking your actual plate inventory is a real feature idea, just not one that's built yet.

Part of starting your first month with Yield.

Yield Strength is in beta on TestFlight. Read more about what makes it different, or join the waitlist to try it yourself.