Bring your history

Import your Strong workouts, and keep your years

If you are leaving Strong, the question that matters is not which app you move to. It is whether the years you have already logged come with you. They can. Here is how, and why it is the whole point.

You did not start lifting last week. You have a few hundred sessions in Strong, maybe a few thousand. Every one of them is a data point about how you respond to training: which lifts climb, which stall, how you recover, what a good week looks like for you. That is not an archive. It is the longest experiment you have ever run, and you are the only subject.

Most app switches treat that history as something to abandon. You download the new app, you start from an empty log, and the years quietly evaporate. Platepusher takes the opposite position: bring your lifting life with you.

The one-way door

Strong lets you export your full log as a CSV, but it cannot import one back in. So a Strong export is a one-way door out, not a sync. That is fine, as long as the place you land actually accepts your history. Platepusher does.

How to move your Strong history over

Four steps, once.

Export from Strong. In Strong, open Settings and export your workout data to a CSV file. This is your full history, every set and date.
Open the import in Platepusher. In Platepusher, go to your data settings and choose Import, then select Strong.
Select your CSV. Pick the file you exported from Strong and confirm.
Review your history. Your exercises, sets, weights, reps, and dated workouts land in Platepusher, ready to start informing today's session.

Why this is the point, not a convenience

Importing your history is not a backup chore or an IT task. It is what makes the switch worth anything. Platepusher is built around the idea that your training history should improve today's training, and it can only do that if the history is actually there. An empty log has nothing to tell you. Your five years of Strong data has a great deal to tell you, the moment it is in an app that bothers to read it.

So the import is identity preservation. The progression you built, the lifts you care about, the patterns you have half-noticed for months, all of it carries over and becomes the raw material Platepusher uses to surface what you have been suspecting. You do not re-zero the experiment. You pick it up where you left off.

Don't re-zero five years of training.

Platepusher imports your Strong (and Hevy) history and is built around making it useful today, not just storing it. No leaderboards, no fake coach. Monthly, yearly, or $99.99 once, with CSV export always free.

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Common questions

Can Strong import data back in?

No. Strong exports a CSV of your full history, but it cannot import one back, so a Strong export is a one-way door out. Whatever you move to, you leave Strong by exporting, not by syncing. Platepusher accepts that CSV, so your history moves with you.

What comes over when I import from Strong?

Your exercises, sets, weights, reps, and dated workout history move into Platepusher, so your progression is intact rather than starting from a blank log. The point is continuity: the years you have logged stay usable.

Will I lose my Strong progression if I switch?

Not if you import it. Your training history is the experiment you have already run on yourself, and importing it into Platepusher means you do not re-zero that experiment. Your old data is exactly what Platepusher uses to inform today's session.

Is the import free?

Yes. Importing your history and exporting it again as CSV are both free in Platepusher. Your data is yours to bring in and take out at any tier.

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