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Soreness often peaks 24 to 48 hours after a session. A recovery check-in is a dated record of how sore you feel, kept apart from the workout. Your effort rating says how the session felt at the time. A check-in says how your body felt afterwards.

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Add a check-in

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Open the row

Go to the Log tab. Recovery check-in sits in the Workouts section, under Workout. It appears when you track Workout. Switch Workout on under Tracked metrics in the menu.
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Tap Add recovery check-in

A sheet opens with a row of levels from 0 to 10.
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Tap how sore you feel

That tap saves the check-in. There is no Save button. If you open the sheet and leave without choosing a level, VitaSync saves nothing.
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Add detail if you like

Change the date or time, tap body areas, and tick the workouts it followed. Each change saves as you tap it.
You can add more than one check-in in a day. They list oldest first. The collapsed row shows the level, like 6/10. With several check-ins it shows the count and the worst level, like 2 check-ins · worst 6/10.

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What the scale means

0 means you checked and nothing is sore. 10 is severe. VitaSync keeps a check-in at 0, and it differs from a day with no check-in. Knowing nothing is sore is useful. The level is the check-in. To remove one, open it and tap Delete check-in.

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Body areas

Areas are optional. Tap as many as apply:
  • Legs
  • Glutes
  • Calves
  • Lower back
  • Upper back
  • Chest
  • Shoulders
  • Arms
  • Core
  • Neck
  • Hips
  • All over
Choose none if you would rather not say where. You cannot give each area its own level. You can link a check-in to none, one or several workouts from the last three days. The link is your own note. A check-in with no links is a complete record. Open a saved workout and its Recovery check-ins section lists each check-in that names it. Each shows the day you recorded it. The list is read-only.

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Edit the date

Change the date and the check-in moves to that day. It does not leave a copy on the old day. Change only the time and it stays on its day. You cannot pick a future day.

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The next-day reminder

When you save a workout, VitaSync offers to remind you tomorrow. The offer has two buttons: No thanks and Remind me. It does not appear when you reopen a saved workout to fix a set.
  • Android asks first. The first time you choose Remind me, Android asks for permission to send notifications.
  • It fires at your reminder time. There is no separate time. Change your reminder time in Settings and every waiting check-in reminder moves with it.
  • It works with the daily reminder off. Settings, under Reminders, lists each waiting reminder.
  • VitaSync asks once a day. Two workouts on a Monday share one answer for Tuesday. A No thanks counts as an answer, so the second workout does not ask again.
  • Declining changes nothing else. Your workout stays saved as it was.
To set or remove a reminder later, open the saved workout and use its Next-day reminder row. Tap the notification and Log opens on that day with the check-in sheet open. The workout it follows is already ticked, and no level is chosen yet. If that day already has a check-in that names the workout, the tap opens that check-in instead. The reminder never fills in a level for you. VitaSync saves nothing until you choose one. A reminder belongs to the phone that set it. It does not travel with cloud backup. VitaSync drops it once its time has passed.

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If you delete a workout

The check-in stays as it was. VitaSync keeps the link. The check-in tells you how many linked workouts are no longer logged, for example “1 no longer logged”. You never see a shorter list than the one you chose.

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Where else check-ins show up

On Home, a day’s Timeline lists each check-in at the time you recorded it. See Home.

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Planned

Comparing soreness with sleep, effort or training volume is planned and not built yet. It depends on months of data. A recovery check-in records soreness only. It is not a place to log pain or injury.