Bodyweight Total Load

What it is

Most apps count a pull-up as “1 rep” and stop there. Kinoku treats it like a real lift. Ten pull-ups at 70 kg is not the same as ten at 85 kg. The tracking should know that.

How the load is figured out

A bodyweight move does not lift all of you. A push-up keeps your feet on the floor, so it lifts less than a pull-up does. Kinoku uses numbers from sports science for how much of your body weight each move actually lifts. The ones it ships with:

• Pull-up: 1.0 of your body weight
• Chin-up: 1.0 of your body weight
• Dip: about 0.98
• Push-up: about 0.64
• Inverted row: about 0.55
• Pistol squat and other one-leg moves: about 0.95

Extra weight from a belt, vest, or chains gets added on top. A 20 kg vest plus a pull-up at 80 kg body weight gives 100 kg of load per rep.

Saving your body weight with each set

For the math to stay true through a cut or bulk, Kinoku needs your body weight on the day of the set, not today’s. There are four ways it gets it:

1. Profile setting. The body weight you typed in.
2. Health Connect. A sync from a weight app on your device.
3. Pulse opt-in. Log your weight on the Pulse screen as part of your morning numbers.
4. Manual backfill. Add a weight to a set you already logged.

Kinoku saves that weight with the set. Old sets from before this feature are left alone. They keep a 1.0 value and are never changed, so a later update can not rewrite your history.

Total Load chart and relative-strength view

Open the detail screen for any bodyweight move and you get a Total Load chart. It shows the weight per rep over time, using both the move and your real body weight.

A relative-strength view switches from total weight to weight divided by body weight. That way you can track progress whether you are gaining, losing, or holding weight. It is how sports scientists talk about how strong you are for your size.

Gravity Defier achievement

A three-tier achievement in the Strength group tracks your best load-to-body-weight ratio on any saved set:

• Bronze: 1.0 times body weight on any bodyweight move
• Silver: 1.5 times (for example, body weight plus 50% added)
• Gold: 2.0 times body weight

Because the move’s load is built in, a clean pull-up at body weight counts, and a weighted pull-up adds on top.

What this fixes

On a barbell curl, 5 kg more reads clearly as progress. Bodyweight progress is fuzzier. It can mean three more reps, losing 3 kg at the same reps, or adding a 10 kg belt. All three are real gains. All three should show up on the same chart.

Kinoku’s take: if your goal is to move your own body well, track the load that really is, and let the chart rise when you get stronger, whatever changed.

For the science behind the numbers, see the Relative Strength article in /learn.