Moving to Badger from Strong

If you would rather not rent your training log, or want it on your phone instead of in an account, your Strong history can come with you. This page covers what the export brings across and what you trade.

What the CSV carries across

Strong exports a CSV, and Badger keeps more of it than your sets.

Every set, with its date, exercise, weight, reps, distance, and time.
Your RPE, on each set, so years of "how hard was that" are still there.
Per-set notes, on their set. The note on one heavy triple stays with that triple. The workout's name, then its Workout Notes, become the note on the session.
Warmups and failure sets. When the export marks a set W or F in Set Order, it arrives as a warmup or a failure set. A drop set (D) comes in as a working set. Older exports that only number the sets arrive as working sets.
Session times. Imported workouts show when they started and how long they ran.
Kilograms or pounds, read from the file's header and kept in the unit you logged, with no rounding.
Badger detects the delimiter from the header line, so the semicolon-separated export Strong writes in some European locales imports as is.
Your PRs, worked out from the imported history, so your records and graphs start out full.

What does not come across:

Your routines. The export holds history only. Start from one of Badger's ten built-in programs or build your own.
Your exercise categories. New exercises land in an "Imported" category for you to sort. An exercise already in your Badger library is matched by name.

Doing it

In Strong, go to Profile → Settings → Export Data to get a strong.csv, move it to the phone you train with, then open Settings → Your data → Import from Strong in Badger. Import each file once. The full steps are in importing from another app.

What you get, and what you give up

What you get:

No account. Your log is on your phone, with nothing to sign in to or be locked out of.
No paywall. No cap on routines, history or graphs, and exporting is free. The no-subscription guide compares the trackers people usually weigh up.
Gym and machine tracking, with PRs kept per machine. How it works.
A plate calculator and warmup generator that work from the plates your gym owns, and graphs with estimated 1RM, muscle balance and plateau detection.

What you give up:

Sync between devices. Your log lives on one phone. Moving to a new one means carrying a backup file over: moving to a new phone.
Social features. There is nobody to follow and nothing to post.

Getting back out again

Your numbers stay yours if you move on. Every set exports to CSV, and the whole database backs up to a file you keep. Routines, exercises and equipment share as .badger files, a documented format you can read in any text editor.

About the name

Strong is a trademark of its owner, and Badger is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or connected to it in any way. This page describes compatibility only: Badger reads the CSV file that Strong exports.