Hevy shows you the data. Fire Your Coach tells you what it means.
Hevy is the most complete tracker in the category. A deeper exercise library than Strong, muscle heat maps, PRs flagged as you hit them, and a history that doesn't fall off after eight weeks. This is a respectful look at where the record ends and training memory begins.
| Capability | Hevy | Fire Your Coach |
|---|---|---|
| Set and rep logging | Yes | Yes |
| History that does not expire | Yes | Yes |
| CSV export of your own sessions | Yes | Not yet |
| Muscle heat map | Yes | No |
| Social feed | Yes | No, by choice |
| Periodized blocks and phases | No | Yes |
| Adapts the session to readiness | No | Yes |
| Stimulus-first exercise swaps | No | Yes |
| Carries decisions across blocks | No | Yes |
Hevy gives you the most complete picture of your training that a tracker can give you. Open it after a session and the sets are there, the PRs are marked, the muscle map is filling in. The record is accurate and it holds.
Then the block ends. You sit down to plan the next one, and none of the questions that matter are questions about the record. Was that quad volume productive, or just tolerable? Why did I move to belt squats in week 3? Has my upper back been quietly falling behind since spring?
A heat map can't answer any of those — not Hevy's, and not the one Boostcamp Pro ships. It's a snapshot of recent work, not a reading of a trend. It shows density, not direction. And nothing carries the reasoning from one block into the next, because holding reasoning was never what a tracker was built to do.
The data isn't the problem. Hevy has more of it than anyone. The gap is that nothing reads it.
Fire Your Coach isn't a better tracker than Hevy. It's the layer Hevy was never trying to be. It reads your record across blocks, holds the intent behind each decision you made, and adjusts a session when the day refuses to cooperate.
There's no feed here, and nothing to keep a streak alive. Those are deliberate omissions, not gaps in a roadmap. If the social side of Hevy is part of why you show up, that's a good reason to keep it.
Run both if you like: import your Hevy CSV and your sets, weights and dates come with you. Or run Fire Your Coach on its own, where sets, splits and session notes are tracked faithfully and the memory lives in the same place.
Export your workout data from Hevy and drop the CSV into Fire Your Coach. We detect the format, normalize your exercise names against the canonical library, and rebuild your training history. The memory starts from the sessions you've already done, not from today.
When you start running structured blocks. Hevy records training accurately; that is not the limitation. A log holds what you did, not why you decided it, so every new block starts from a blank page. Fire Your Coach sits on top of the record: it keeps the intent behind each programming decision, tracks balance across blocks, and adapts a session when sleep or time is short. Plenty of lifters run both and import their Hevy CSV so no history is lost.
Hevy and Strong are both workout trackers with different strengths. Strong has the fastest set logging and Apple Watch support. Hevy has a deeper exercise library, muscle heat maps, social features, and long-term history that Strong caps at eight weeks. If you want a record of your training, either works. Neither carries programming decisions across mesocycles, which is a separate layer.
Yes. Export your workout data from Hevy, then upload the CSV to Fire Your Coach. The importer detects the Hevy format by its headers, normalizes exercise names against the canonical library, and rebuilds your history. Hevy exports carry RPE, superset grouping, exercise notes, distance and duration. Conditioning work and effort ratings survive the move rather than flattening into sets and reps.
No. Fire Your Coach imports your Hevy history and works at the block level: why you programmed what you programmed, whether your balance is drifting, and what to carry into the next mesocycle. If Hevy's logging and its social feed are where you want to be, keep them. Fire Your Coach also tracks sets and splits faithfully if you would rather run one app.