The Home Calendar & Summaries
The Home tab is where your log stops being a list of entries and starts being a record of a training life: a month at a glance, every day one tap away, and a summary row that tells you exactly how hard you've been working. Here's how to read every number on it — and how to turn a good training day into a plan you can run again.
The month view
Home opens on a calendar of the current month. Reading it takes about three seconds:
- Filled circles mark days you logged at least one workout. Empty days are rest days (or days you forgot your phone — the log doesn't judge).
- Navigate months with the arrows to step back through your training history, month by month.
- Tap any day to open it and see everything you logged — the day view below covers what you'll find there.
Below the calendar sits a workouts list for the month, so you can scroll your sessions without tapping through individual days.
One habit worth building: if you've wandered off to another month, double-tap the Home tab to snap back to the current month view.
Month Summary stats explained
The Month Summary condenses the whole month into a row of stats. Each one is simple on its own; together they tell you whether the month was a big one.
| Stat | What it counts |
|---|---|
| Days | Number of days in the month with at least one logged workout. |
| Time | Total training time. Each day's time is the span from your first logged set to your last — so it reflects how long you were actually in the gym, based on the timestamps of your entries. |
| Vol (Volume) | Total work moved: sets × reps × weight, summed across every entry. The single best number for "how much did I lift this month?" |
| Eff/min (Efficiency) | Volume per minute of training time. High Eff/min means dense sessions; if it drops while Time climbs, you're spending more of your gym time not lifting. |
| Items | Number of logged entries (set-groups) in the month. |
| Sets | Total sets across all entries. |
| Reps | Total reps across all entries. |
Streaks and award cards
Two streak counters keep score of your consistency:
- Day Streak counts consecutive days with a logged workout. Train today and yesterday and the day before, and the streak reads 3; miss a day and it resets.
- Week Streak counts consecutive weeks with at least one workout — the streak that matters for people who train three or four days a week and don't pretend otherwise. Log something every week and it keeps climbing, rest days and all.
Below the stats you'll find award cards: the personal records you earned this month. A month with PR cards on it is a month that moved the needle — every legend keeps a log, and this is the part of the log worth bragging about.
The day view
Tap a day on the calendar to open it. The day view has two parts:
- Day Summary — the same style of stats as the month, scoped to this single day: how long you trained, how much volume you moved, sets and reps totals.
- The Sets list — every set-group you logged that day, as cards showing the exercise, sets × reps × weight, and any extras you recorded.
Tap any card to edit it. The card opens in the same edit form you'd use anywhere else in the app — fix a typo'd weight, adjust the reps, add a note, or delete the entry entirely, then Save. This is the fastest way to clean up a day right after you log it.
Save a day as a Plan
Had a session worth repeating? The day view's Save as Plan button turns the whole day into a reusable workout plan in one tap:
- Open the day on the Home calendar.
- Tap Save as Plan.
- Give the plan a name — "Push Day", "Tuesday Legs", whatever future-you will recognize.
The new plan lands in the Plan tab alongside any plans you've built by hand, with the day's exercises, sets, reps, and weights already filled in. From there you can edit it, reorder it, and run it any time — see Workout Plans: Create, Edit, and Run for the full plan workflow.
You don't have to design a plan up front. Train freely for a week, then walk back through the calendar and Save as Plan your best days. Your own training becomes your template.
How mixed kg and lb are handled
Herculog lets you pick kg or lb per entry, which raises an obvious question: what unit do the summaries use if a month contains both? The answer: the majority unit of the period. If most of the month's entries are in kilograms, the Month Summary displays in kg; if pounds dominate, it displays in lb. The same rule applies to any summary period, so the numbers you see always match the unit you actually train in most.
Every legend keeps a log
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