Weight increment looks wrong

The progression rule said you were due for a small jump and the app served you something that does not match the plates on your rack. 102.6 kg, or 187.5 lb when your gym only stocks 5 lb plates. The math is fine. The pieces it is loading from are off. Two settings fix it almost every time.

Check the unit

Open Settings and find Units. Pick kg or lb. The whole app, every program, every history entry, follows the unit you pick. Swap it once and the next session re-reads.

The trap is mixing units mid-program. If you logged 4 weeks at 100 kg and then flipped to lb, the prescribed weight on the next session reads 100, but it is now 100 lb. Set the unit to match what your bar and plates are actually stamped with, and leave it alone.

If you train in kg at home and lb at a hotel gym, log the hotel session at the gym's unit and let Rackd convert in the background. Do not switch the app unit for one session.

Check the plate set

Settings has a Plates screen. Open it and you will see the bar and the plates Rackd is rounding to. The defaults match a normal commercial gym.

• Kg default: 20 kg bar, 25, 20, 15, 10, 5, and 2.5 kg plates per side.
• Lb default: 45 lb bar, 45, 35, 25, 10, 5, and 2.5 lb plates per side.

If your gym is missing a size, untick it. If you keep micro-plates in your gym bag, tick the smaller ones. The rounding rule reads from this list every time it suggests a weight.

A common cause of weird increments is a plate set with a missing 2.5 kg or 2.5 lb plate. Without the smallest plate, the smallest jump is 5 per side, or 10 on the bar. Add the small plate back and the increments smooth out.

How the rounding works

Once the engine has a target from the progression rule, it rounds down to the nearest weight you can actually load with your plate set. Down, never up. The reasoning is simple: a missed rep on a heavier round-up undermines the whole rule, and the next session lifts it back anyway. A round-down hits the prescribed reps cleanly and the cycle moves on.

So if the rule wanted 102.6 kg and your plates only reach 102.5, the screen reads 102.5. If the rule wanted 187.5 lb and your plates stop at 185, the screen reads 185. The note on the day shows the raw target and the loaded target, both, so you can see what was rounded and by how much.

That is the whole story. Pick the unit, tick the plates, load the bar.