How to move your routine to a new gym app without losing it

Decide what you are actually moving

Two different things get called "my data", and they have completely different prospects.

Your routines — the plan: which days, which exercises, how many sets and reps. This is small, it is structured, and it moves easily. It is also the part you would have to retype, so it is the part worth moving.

Your logged history — every set you have ever done. This is large and lives in each app's private schema. Competing gym apps do not import each other's history, and any app claiming otherwise usually means its own backup file. Plan to leave it behind.

That sounds worse than it is. History matters for two things: knowing what you lifted last time, and seeing long-term charts. The first you can carry over by hand for the handful of lifts you care about. The second is a genuine loss, and the only honest advice is that it is a one-time cost, and the longer you delay switching the larger it gets.

Getting your routine out of the old app

1. 1Open each routine in your current tracker and look for a share or export option — many have one that produces plain text.
2. 2If there is no export, screenshot each training day, then type it out roughly. You do not need to be tidy; the next step tolerates messy text.
3. 3Write down the last working weight for your main lifts — the big compounds and anything you are actively progressing. Five or six numbers is usually enough.
4. 4Put it all in one place. A note with each day and its exercises, in any format. "Day A: bench 4x6-8, incline DB press 3x10" is fine.
5. 5Do this before you delete anything. Obvious, and still the most common way people lose a program.

Getting it into the new app

Most apps require you to rebuild by hand: create a routine, search each exercise, set sets and reps, repeat. For a four-day split that is the hour everyone dreads.

Superset takes the text directly. Paste whatever you wrote — tidy list or a paragraph from your coach — and an AI splits it into training days, matches each movement against the built-in 873-exercise database, and shows you a review screen before saving. Your movements arrive with instructions and photos attached, and the imported days are written into your history as recent training so the coach continues from your plan instead of treating you as a new user.

Hevy's HevyGPT can also produce a routine in your profile, though it is designed to generate a new plan from a description rather than read the one you already have.

Whichever route you take, check the result. Exercise names are where matching goes wrong — a "seated cable row" in one app may be a "cable row, seated" in another, and a wrong match quietly splits your progression history in two.

The first two weeks in the new app

• Enter your last working weights manually on your main lifts, as a single fake session or as your first real one. Without them a progression coach has nothing to work from and will ask to calibrate.
• Keep the old app installed for a fortnight. You will remember something you forgot. Do not delete the account until you are sure.
• Check the exercise matches after your first session of each day. Wrong matches are easiest to fix before they have history attached.
• Expect week one to feel worse. Any new app is slower until the muscle memory transfers. Judge it in week three, not on day one.
• Do not rebuild everything at once. Move the routine you are actually running now; the deload variant and the travel-day session can wait.

What you should accept losing

Your long-term charts, your all-time personal-record list as the old app computed it, and any streak. There is no way around this between competing apps.

What you keep is the thing that matters most day to day: your program, and the working weights you are currently using. Everything after that rebuilds from your next session onward, and in three months the new history is the one you are actually looking at.