Body tracking

Log body weight and tape measurements alongside your training. Open it from More → Body. Once you've logged a measurement, a small Body section appears at the bottom of Progress → Overview with your latest reading and its trend.

Choose what you track

Only body weight is on to begin with. Body fat, waist, chest, arms, thighs and the rest are off until you turn them on.

Open What do you track? from the Body screen's ⋮ menu and switch on the ones you want. A cut might be weight plus waist, a bulk weight plus arms and chest, and plenty of people keep it to weight alone.

Measurements you switch off are hidden. Switching one off never deletes anything: turn waist back on next spring and last spring's numbers are still there.

To track something the list doesn't have, tap Add a measurement at the bottom.

Log a measurement

Tap the + on a row of the Body screen and type the number. The date starts on today; change it if you're catching up on an earlier reading.

Tap the row itself to open that measurement's page, with your latest reading, the trend and every entry. Tap an entry to edit it, or its × to delete it.

Read the trend

Watch the solid accent line: it's a 7-day average. The faint line with dots is exactly what you logged.

Body weight moves day to day with water, food and time of day, so one morning's reading can be a kilo off either way. The average smooths that out and shows which way you're really heading.

Use the 30d, 90d and All chips to change the time range.

The small caret next to a reading compares it to the one before. It's colored only when you've set a direction you want for that measurement (waist going down, arms going up); with no goal, it shows the change without color.

Units

Measurements follow your lifting unit: kilograms and centimeters, or pounds and inches. Change it and everything switches to the new unit.

Each entry keeps the unit you typed it in, and switching only changes how it's shown. A weigh-in logged as 81.4 kg stays 81.4 kg, and shows as 179.5 lbs when the app is set to pounds.

Apple Health and Health Connect

Badger can connect to Apple Health on iPhone or Health Connect on Android in three ways, each off until you turn it on: writing your workouts, importing body weight, and adding heart rate to your sets. Find the switches in Settings → Your data or the Body screen's ⋮ menu.

Each one asks the health app for its own permission, so turning on heart rate doesn't share your weight history too.

Writing workouts

Every workout you finish is saved to your health store as a strength training session, so your rings, daily summary and other connected apps know you trained.

Badger writes the start and end time only, with no calorie estimate. Use your watch's figure for calories.

A back-dated workout isn't written, because with no timer running there's no duration to report.

Importing body weight

Weigh-ins in your health store (from a smart scale, another app, or typed into Health) appear in your body tracker as ordinary entries. Badger asks for body weight only.

On Android, Health Connect also asks whether Badger may see data older than 30 days. Allow it and your first import reaches back a year; decline and you get the last 30 days. You can change this anytime in Health Connect.

Badger checks for new weigh-ins only when you open the Body screen, never in the background. If your health store filled in missing days later, tap Bring in weigh-ins now to search the whole past year. The same reading is never imported twice, but a genuine second weigh-in on the same morning is kept.

Imported weigh-ins are saved in Badger like the ones you type, so they're in your backups: the backup file and, if you use it, the cloud backup to your own Google Drive. See the Privacy Policy.

Heart rate on your sets

Badger saves one heart rate per set, taken at the end of the set from the samples your watch has written to your health store. Wear your watch while you train and the numbers turn up with nothing to start or press. Badger reads heart rate; it never writes it back to your health store.

Two charts show it:

• The Exertion chart on a workout summary, under Pace, plots your heart rate set by set across the session, so you can see it drift up as you tire.
• The Exertion chart on an exercise's progress page shows your average for that exercise, session by session. If the same weight for the same reps costs you less than it did a month ago, this chart shows it.

Each set also shows its reading in the set list, in small text with the rest of the set's details.

The session chart appears once four sets have a reading, and the per-exercise chart once three sessions do.

Missing numbers are normal. Watches send samples to the phone in batches, sometimes minutes late, so Badger checks when you finish and again when you open the workout summary. If nothing arrives by then, that set has no heart rate.

There's no live heart rate while you train. Readings are saved with the set and are part of your backups, like your weights and reps.

Turning it off

Turn any of the three off whenever you like, or revoke Badger's access in Apple Health or Health Connect. Anything already saved in your body tracker stays until you delete it.

If the switches aren't there

On Android versions below 14, Health Connect is a separate app. Install it from the Play Store, then come back to this screen.