Training, nutrition, and labs in one body of data

If you train seriously you are already running an experiment on yourself. The problem is that the results are scattered: lifts in one app, macros in another, sleep on your wrist, bloodwork in a PDF in your email, and whatever you are taking written on the back of an envelope.

Nothing correlates when it is stored in five places. The only reason to keep training data at all is to notice things — that the strength stall lines up with two bad sleep weeks, that protein quietly fell off in the month your lifts did. That needs one body of data, not five feeds.

Logging that survives a real week

The sentence at the top of this page is three logs: an injection with its site, a protein total for the day, and a lab report filed for later. Said once, walking out of the gym, with wet hands. That is the bar — a tracker that only works when you are calm and sitting down is a tracker you abandon in week three.

• Workouts — sessions, exercises, sets and the numbers that actually moved
• Calories and macros — a spoken line, a scan, or a search, whichever is fastest right now
• Medications and supplements — doses and schedules, including compounds people do not like typing into a health app
• Hydration, weight and sleep — the boring inputs that explain most of the interesting outputs

TRT and injections, tracked properly

Protocol tracking is its own job. Tase keeps doses on a schedule and tracks injection sites with rotation, so you are not relying on memory to avoid hitting the same spot twice — which is the kind of thing you only get wrong once before you start wanting a record.

Side effects and how you felt go in the same place. A protocol note is only useful next to the outcome it produced, and the outcome is usually a sentence rather than a number.

Bloodwork stops being a dead PDF

Drop a lab report into your Brain and it gets read and filed instead of sitting unopened in a mail thread. Months later you can ask what your last ferritin was, or what the panel said before you changed anything, and get the answer without hunting for the attachment.

That is the difference between storage and recall. A PDF in cloud storage is technically saved and practically gone; the same PDF in your Brain changes the answer to a question you ask in November about a test you took in March.

The questions worth asking

• How does this week’s sleep compare to last?
• What was my average protein during the block where the bench moved?
• When did I last inject, and on which side?
• What did the last panel say about the thing I am trying to fix?