Workout Planner

A comprehensive plugin for Obsidian that visualizes workout data with interactive charts, tables, and timers. Store your logs in a single CSV file and get beautiful visualizations, progress tracking, and duration estimation directly inside your notes.

Quick Start

Go to Settings → Workout Planner and click Create examples to generate a demo folder with sample workout data and notes showcasing all plugin features — charts, tables, timers, and dashboards.

Features

• Interactive Charts — Volume, weight, reps, duration, distance, pace, heart rate via Chart.js
  • Smart formatting: duration as 1h 30m, pace as 5:30 min/km
  • Trend lines with inverted logic for pace (lower = faster = improving)
• Data Tables — Sortable logs with edit/delete, protocol badges, progressive overload targets
• Workout Timers — Countdown, interval, and stopwatch with presets and audio notifications
• Workout Dashboard — Stats, muscle heat map, recent workouts, volume analytics, protocol effectiveness
• Quick Log — Touch-friendly modal for fast logging with recent exercises and weight adjustment buttons
• Protocol Tracking — Custom training techniques (drop sets, supersets, myo-reps, etc.) with badge display
• Duration Estimation — Compare actual vs. estimated workout duration
• Canvas Export — Visualize workout structure on Obsidian Canvas
• Dynamic Exercise Types — Strength, Cardio, Flexibility with custom field definitions
• Exercise Conversion — Convert exercises between types with field mapping
• Custom Muscle Tags — Map tags in any language to canonical muscle groups
• Dataview Integration — Public API for querying logs and stats from Dataview queries
• Templater Integration — Use workout data in templates
• Responsive Design — Works on desktop and mobile

Usage

Commands

Access via Command Palette (Ctrl/Cmd + P):

Code Blocks

Embed charts, tables, timers, and dashboards directly in your notes using code blocks.

workout-chart

exercise: Squat
type: volume
dateRange: 30
showTrendLine: true
showStats: true
height: 400

Parameters:

Pace charts: trend logic is inverted — decreasing pace (faster) = Improving (green), increasing pace (slower) = Declining (red).

workout-log

exercise: Bench Press
exactMatch: false
dateRange: 14
sortBy: date
sortOrder: desc
limit: 50

Parameters:

workout-timer

type: countdown
duration: 90
rounds: 3
sound: true
preset: rest

Parameters:

workout-dashboard

No parameters — renders the full dashboard with all widgets.

Settings

Setup & data

Mobile logging

Timer presets

Save reusable timer configurations (countdown, interval, stopwatch) with name, duration, rounds, sound, and controls settings. Set a default preset for new timers.

Custom protocols

Define custom training techniques beyond the built-in ones. Each protocol has a name, abbreviation (max 3 chars), and badge color. Protocols appear as badges in tables and dashboard widgets.

Training parameters

Advanced

Custom Muscle Tags

Map custom tags (in any language) to canonical muscle groups for the heatmap and exercise categorization.

Tag Manager

Open via Command Palette → Workout: Manage muscle tags. Supports add, edit, delete, search, and fuzzy duplicate detection.

CSV Format

Tags are stored in muscle-tags.csv alongside your workout log:

tag,muscleGroup
petto,chest
schiena,back
spalle,shoulders

Canonical Muscle Groups

chest, back, shoulders, biceps, triceps, quads, hamstrings, glutes, calves, abs, core, forearms, traps, rear_delts

Data Format

All workout logs are stored in a single CSV file:

date,exercise,reps,weight,volume,origine,workout,timestamp,notes,protocol

Custom exercise types add extra columns automatically (e.g., duration, distance, pace).

Example

date,exercise,reps,weight,volume,origine,workout,timestamp,notes,protocol
2025-01-17T10:30:00.000Z,Bench Press,8,100,800,[[Push Day]],Workout A,1737138600000,,standard
2025-01-17T10:35:00.000Z,Squat,10,80,800,[[Leg Day]],Workout A,1737138900000,,standard

Dataview Integration

The plugin exposes window.WorkoutPlannerAPI for use in Dataview queries and other plugins.

Methods

getWorkoutLogs(filter?)

const logs = await WorkoutPlannerAPI.getWorkoutLogs({
  exercise: "Squat", // partial match, case-insensitive
  workout: "Push Day",
  dateRange: { start: "2025-01-01", end: "2025-01-31" },
  protocol: "drop_set",
  exactMatch: false,
});

Returns: date, exercise, reps, weight, volume, workout, notes, timestamp, protocol

getExerciseStats(exercise)

const stats = await WorkoutPlannerAPI.getExerciseStats("Bench Press");
// { totalVolume, maxWeight, prWeight, prReps, prDate, totalSets,
//   averageWeight, averageReps, lastWorkoutDate, trend }

getExercises(filter?)

const exercises = await WorkoutPlannerAPI.getExercises({
  tag: "chest",
});

Examples

Recent logs table:

const logs = await WorkoutPlannerAPI.getWorkoutLogs({
  exercise: "Squat",
  dateRange: { start: "2025-01-01" }
});
dv.table(
  ["Date", "Reps", "Weight", "Volume"],
  logs.map(l => [l.date.split("T")[0], l.reps, l.weight + " kg", l.volume])
);

Exercise PR:

const stats = await WorkoutPlannerAPI.getExerciseStats("Bench Press");
dv.paragraph(`**PR:** ${stats.prWeight} kg × ${stats.prReps} reps (${stats.prDate})`);

Weekly volume:

const logs = await WorkoutPlannerAPI.getWorkoutLogs({
  dateRange: {
    start: moment().subtract(7, "days").format("YYYY-MM-DD"),
    end: moment().format("YYYY-MM-DD")
  }
});
const volume = logs.reduce((sum, l) => sum + l.volume, 0);
dv.paragraph(`**This week:** ${volume.toLocaleString()} kg total volume`);

The API is available after the plugin loads. Access as WorkoutPlannerAPI or window.WorkoutPlannerAPI.

Translations

⚠️ All translations except English are generated via AI (LLM-based machine translation). Some may contain errors or unnatural phrasing. Feel free to open an issue or PR with corrections.

Third-Party Libraries

• Chart.js v4.4.0 — MIT — github.com/chartjs/Chart.js

License

MIT License — see LICENSE for details.