Why a 4-second hold shouldn't score like a 30-second one

A lifter's target for a dead hang was 30 seconds. Her grip gave out at 4. She logged the set anyway, and the app counted it as 1 of 1 sets: 100%. A perfect score for a hold that lasted barely a tenth of what was asked. Technically true if you're only counting sets. Misleading if you're asking how much work actually got done.

Why counting sets isn't enough for a hold

For most exercises, one completed set is roughly one completed set — 8 reps is 8 reps, whether the target was 8 or 10. A timed hold doesn't work that way. A set is a container for however long you actually held it, and "I did the set" can mean 4 seconds or 40. Counting sets alone throws that difference away.

The fix

Each hold now earns credit for the fraction of its own target you held, capped at 100% so holding longer than the target doesn't inflate the score either. 4 seconds of a 30-second target reads as roughly 13%, not 100%.

Rep-based exercises are untouched. A set is still a fair unit of work for those. The change applies only to anything measured by time: planks, dead hangs, farmer's carries, and similar movements.

Part of why Yield's numbers are actually trustworthy.

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