Train without the plate
How to run a session on the timer when your plate is not with you or its batteries are flat, what the screen shows, and what the app records then.
Checked with app version 1.0.64 Last updated
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When the app looks for your plate, tap Start without the plate. The session then runs on the timer: it counts the hangs and the rests, and measures no force. Tap the screen when you cannot finish a hang. Tests need the plate.
Start a session on the timer
- Start your workout or your plan’s session as usual.
- The app looks for your plate. While it looks, tap Start without the plate. The same choice shows if there is a problem: Bluetooth is off, the plate is not found, or the weigh-in failed.
The session opens at once. The app does not weigh you.
If your plate is on and near you, the app finds it and weighs you, and this choice does not show.
You make this choice at each session. Nothing in Settings turns the timer on for good.
The first pull of the setup cannot be done on the timer: it needs the plate.
What the screen shows
If you cannot finish a hang, tap the screen. The app marks that hang as failed and goes to the next step. So do not tap the screen during a hang that goes well. A hang you do not tap is saved as done: the app cannot check it.
- The picture of the exercise on top.
- Under it, the name of the exercise, its load and the countdown. During a rest, the app shows the exercise that comes next.
- No gauge and no force.
Each hang starts by itself when the countdown says so. With the plate, a hang waits for your pull. On the timer, it does not wait.
During a hang, the load shows under the name of the exercise. A fixed load shows in your unit. A share shows as a percentage: of your body weight (30% BW), of your max strength (20% max), of one finger’s max (60% of your pinky), or of your sustainable force, from your endurance test. If you have no max strength saved, a load in % max is not shown. The app cannot check the load: it is for you to use the right one.
What is saved
The session is saved and sent to your account like any other.
- Each hang is saved with its time, and no force.
- In Activity History, the session carries the line Without the plate.
- In its details, a hang with no force shows a dash. Averages leave those hangs out.
Your plan counts the session as done. If a session is missing from your history, see A session did not save.
If the plate stops during a session
If the plate stops answering and the app cannot find it again, it offers Continue without the plate, except during a test: the rest of the session runs on the timer, and the history says Partly without the plate. See The plate is lost during a session.
Tests need the plate
Do not start a test without the plate. The warm-up before a test runs on the timer, but a test measures force, and on the timer there is none: the test has no real result. If the test is a day of your plan, the plan still counts it as done. Wait until you have the plate.
What you lose without the plate
- The live force and the targets on the gauge.
- The sounds that follow your force, and the tone that calls you when a hang waits for your pull. The other sounds still play: see Sounds and the voice.
- Your weight for that day.
- The force of each hang in your history.
The timer keeps your training going. A session done on the timer never gets its force numbers later: they are measured again at your next session with the plate.
Related
Go deeper in Train
- No-Hangs: Feet-on-the-Floor Finger Training No-hangs explained: what they are, why the feet stay on the floor, how to set the load, what they can train, and who they suit.
- Abrahangs: Do Daily Low-Load Hangs Work? Daily low-intensity hangs (Abrahangs) at about 40% of max: in a 2024 app-data study the gain was not significant against climbing alone. How to do them.
- How Long Should You Hang on a Hangboard? Hang about 7 to 10 seconds for max strength, 7 seconds on and 3 off for repeaters, and rest 3 minutes between heavy hangs. Durations from the studies.
- Max Hangs: How to Do Them Right How to do max hangs: 10-second hangs at a load you could hold about 3 seconds longer, with 3 minutes of rest. The protocol, why it works and the evidence.
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