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Total Weight Lifted Tracker for iPhone (lbs)

Track total lbs lifted on iPhone. Build toward the million pound challenge or your own target. Log each session's volume and watch the total grow. Free to download.

The million pound challenge is a popular goal in lifting communities: accumulate 1,000,000 lbs of total volume across your training sessions. The logic is simple — add up all the weight across all your sets in every session until you reach a million.

No single session gets you there. No single month does either. It's the kind of goal that builds across hundreds of sessions over months or years, and the only way to track it is as a running total.

A habit tracker measuring gym attendance is the wrong tool entirely. It tells you how many times you showed up, not how much you moved. And it resets when you miss a session, which means a deload week designed to protect your recovery looks like failure.

A volume counter shows 612,000 of 1,000,000 lbs. Every session adds to it. The deload weeks add less. The peak weeks add more. Nothing resets. The million gets closer every time you train.

Common targets

100,000 lbs500,000 lbs1,000,000 lbs

The million pound challenge is a popular lifting goal. At 10,000 lbs of volume per session three times per week, it takes roughly 11 months to reach 1,000,000 lbs.

Why total weight lifted in lbs is a milestone goal

Lifting volume is a cumulative lifetime metric. The total lbs you've moved across every session, every program, and every year is a number that only grows. A session that adds 8,000 lbs to the total during a deload still adds 8,000 lbs. The count never resets because there's nothing to reset: the weight was moved.

The problem with streak trackers for total weight lifted in lbs

A streak tracker resets any week you miss a gym session, even when you're 600,000 lbs into a million-pound goal. The 600,000 lbs already logged don't appear in the reset counter. The total is the only number that matters here.

What the math looks like

At 10,000 lbs of volume per session, three sessions per week, you reach 1,000,000 lbs in about 11 months. A deload week at half volume still adds 60,000–80,000 lbs to the total.

How Notch tracks total weight lifted in lbs

  1. 1
    Set a target. Enter how many lbs you want to lift. Notch knows where done is.
  2. 2
    Log each lb. Tap to add one. Each tap adds a dot to the grid and moves the total closer to your target.
  3. 3
    Watch the grid fill. Every dot represents a real lb you lift. Nothing resets. Take a break and resume from exactly where you left off.
Pricing

Free to download. The full app unlocks with a one-time $9.99 purchase. No subscription.

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A milestone tracker for iPhone. Set a target for total weight lifted in lbs, log each lb, and watch the dot grid fill. No streaks. No resets. No subscription.

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