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🎉 Major Feature: Strength Unwrapped - Your Yearly Recap

The big one!

We've launched

Strength Unwrapped

— a Spotify Wrapped-style yearly recap for your lifting journey. Unwrap your year in beautiful, swipeable, shareable cards that celebrate your strength training achievements.

https://www.strengthjourneys.xyz/strength-year-in-review

What's Inside:

Portrait cards
optimized for Instagram sharing — show off your gains!
Swipeable carousel
with smooth animations powered by Motion
9 recap cards
covering your entire year:

Title Card

: Staggered word reveals, gradient year display, confetti fireworks 🎆

Sessions Card

: Your workout count with circular grade badges and streak highlights

Tonnage Card

: Total volume lifted with Big Four breakdown bar chart

Most-Trained Lift

: Deep dive into your favorite exercise (sets, reps, gym sessions)

Consistency Card

: Your training consistency grade

PR Highlights

: Notable lifts and lifetime PRs split into separate cards

Seasonal Pattern Card

: See when you trained most throughout the year

Closing Card

: Encouraging wrap-up message

Year selector
to browse multiple years of data
Previous year comparison
on Sessions and Tonnage cards (shows in December for current year)
Demo mode
with sign-in prompts for unauthenticated users
Skeleton loaders
for smooth loading experience
Empty state phrases
that encourage and motivate

This is a

beta feature

— we're iterating based on your feedback. Try it out at

/strength-year-in-review

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🎨 UI & UX Improvements

Session Analysis Card Overhaul

https://www.strengthjourneys.xyz/analyzer

Visual hierarchy
: e2RM-based highlighting — PRs and highest e1RM sets stand out
Larger strength level text
: Your strength level is now more prominent
Improved layout
: Cleaner header, better exercise block grouping, session tonnage comparison
Tonnage range slider
: Filter sessions by volume range
Enhanced tooltips
:

- Notes tooltip on StickyNote icon

- Video tooltip with truncated URLs

- Bold "Note:" prefix for workout notes

Better highlighting
: Highlighted sets get bigger fonts and padding
Session rating
: Now shown in card description with nuanced PR tiers and adlibs

Consistency Card

Grade thresholds
: Extracted and improved calculation logic

Visual Improvements

Big Four Lift Cards
: Updated grid layout for better responsiveness
Standards Slider
: Tooltips with tuple info, hover highlights, improved copy
Icon update
: Anvil icon in SectionTopCards
Plate animations
: Plates slide onto barbell with Motion library animations
Feature cards
: Scroll-triggered icon animations, theme chart colors
Big Four SVG
: Subtle rotation wobble when stats load

Layout & Spacing

Carousel centering
: Restored proper centering when authenticated
Unified auth layouts
: Consistent layout for authenticated and demo states

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🔧 Technical Improvements

Code Organization

Component extraction
:
SessionExerciseBlock
component for reusable exercise displays
Local storage patterns
: Documented SSR-safe usage patterns
Year recap refactoring
: Decentralized cards, moved processing code out of
src/lib

Performance & Caching

Session rating cache
: Uses
useLocalStorage
for performance, invalidates on tuple count changes
Processing utils
: Enhanced with better date handling and session analysis

Date & Timezone Fixes

Local date handling
: Fixed timezone issues across multiple components:

- AI lifting assistant, heatmap, months highlights, visualizer-mini

- Time range select, section-top-cards, use-timer, consistency-card

- TODAY badge and cutoff dates (fixes Australia timezone issues)

Date formatting
: Migrated to
date-fns
library for consistent date handling

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🐛 Bug Fixes

Heatmap card
: Fixed broken html3canvas-pro usage after recap migration
Seasonal Pattern Card
: Made bar chart visible (was hidden)
PR ranking
: Fixed tie-breaking — later dates rank worse when lifts tie
Year comparison
: Only shows previous year comparison in December for current year
Duplicate styles
: Fixed duplicate style props in seasonal-pattern-card
Grade jump calculation
: Fixed consistency grade jump calculation
Session momentum
: Fixed to count unique days (was double-counting)

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📊 Data & Analytics Improvements

Strength Ratings

Age-at-PR factor
: Historical lifts now factor in your age at the time of the PR for more accurate strength ratings. You are not in high school anymore, so stop bragging about that boys bench press session.
Bio data integration
: Added bio data support for strength rating calculations
Historical PRs
: Properly distinguished from notable lifts using
isHistoricalPR
flag

Year Recap Data Processing

Deadlift multiplier
: Added 2.5x volume multiplier for deadlift in most-trained and favorite badges
Lifetime PRs
: Split into separate card from notable lifts
Previous year comparison
: Added to Sessions and Tonnage cards with proper date logic
Empty states
: Encouraging phrases for PR cards when no data available

Session Analysis

PR tiers
: More nuanced PR classification
Strength level integration
: Better integration with strength level calculations
Tonnage filtering
: Range slider for filtering sessions by volume

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🎯 Other Improvements

Momentum card
: Sessions move up, brackets move out, math shows up — visual glow-up\!
Lifetime tonnage card
: Unit-aware stats display
Weekly streak card
: Improved logic and messaging
Training logging prompt
: Updated text in SectionTopCards
Carousel position
: Maintains position on year change, reanimates active card
Demo mode
: Improved sign-in card and empty states throughout year recap

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📝 Developer Experience

Code quality
: Improved prop destructuring, better component separation
Local storage
: Documented patterns and SSR-safe usage

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Total changes: 44 files changed, 4,268 insertions(+), 950 deletions(-)

Keep lifting!