Not training legs enough compared to your other days?

Why one day of a split falls behind

Leg day is the classic example, but the pattern applies to any session you like less. The usual reasons:

• It sits on the weakest day of the week. Friday evening legs compete with plans, tiredness and the weekend.
• It is the hardest session. When energy is low, the easier session wins: "I'll do upper today and legs tomorrow", and tomorrow never comes.
• It comes last in the rotation. If the week gets cut short, the last session is the one that drops.
• Missed sessions are not made up. A skipped push day gets moved; a skipped legs day just disappears.

None of this shows if your log only says "gym". Three sessions a week looks fine until you see that two were push and one was pull.

Count the split days separately

The answer needs one thing: each split day logged under its own name. Then compare the counts over a few weeks:

1. One entry per split day: Push, Pull, Legs (or Upper and Lower).
2. Log the day you actually did, not the one the plan said. If you swapped legs for upper, log Upper.
3. Look at four weeks at once. One week is noise; a month shows the pattern.
4. Compare the counts. On a three-day split you would expect roughly the same number of each. Twelve sessions with five Push, five Pull and two Legs is your answer.

Doing it in EasyRoutine

Create a Gym routine with one activity per split day: Push, Pull and Legs, each with its own color, so they are easy to tell apart on the calendar. After each session, tap Log on today and pick the one you did. Logging and the calendar are free.

At the end of the month, open the Calendar in the Month view. Each session is a dot in its activity's color. Tap the Legs tile above the calendar to highlight it, count its dots, then do the same for Push and Pull. The app does not add them up or show percentages for you, but a month of dots is quick to count, and a missing color is easy to see. Which days you actually trained this month covers reading the month in more detail.

Fixing the imbalance

Once the count confirms it, change the setup rather than relying on willpower:

• Move legs to your most reliable day, often the start of the week, and push the session you never skip to the end.
• Make a missed legs day move, not disappear: if Monday falls through, it goes first on the next training day.
• Shorten it if its length is the problem. A shorter leg session you do beats a long one you skip.

With Premium you can put each split day on its weekdays in the Plan tab, for example Legs on Monday at 18:00. A planned session you did not log shows as a hollow ring in the Month view and faded in the Week view, so a skipped leg day is visible the next morning instead of at the end of the month. The weekly workout split template has splits with their weekdays.

Check again next month

After a month on the new plan, count again. If the three are close, the change worked. If not, look at which weekday the gaps fall on: that is usually the day the plan does not fit, and your schedule doesn't match your actual routine is the next step. The workout log page has the full setup.

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