Why doesn't my WOD barbell work fill the Strength card?

Your Strength card can say 2/3 while your log is full of barbell work. The card needs a recorded single or usable one-rep-max estimate for three tracked lifts. Movement details recorded inside WODs already contribute to history and volume, but a metcon's rep total usually cannot establish a 1RM.

What the card counts

The number is a count of different lifts with usable 1RM evidence. It is not a count of workouts, barbell movements encountered, or sets logged.

PRzilla tracks 13 lifts here: Back Squat, Shoulder Press, Deadlift, Bench Press, Front Squat, Squat Clean, Clean & Jerk, Split Jerk, Squat Snatch, Power Clean, Push Press, Overhead Squat, Thruster. Any three qualify. You do not have to complete a specific trio.

Below three, My Fitness shows your progress toward that threshold. Once you have three qualifying lifts, the Strength card shows a level. Adding more sets of a lift that already qualifies does not increase the count of different lifts.

Where your metcon work goes

When your WOD log contains movement details, those results contribute to movement history, volume, and total-work charts. You can look back at the WODs in which you trained a movement without logging the same work a second time.

That depends on what you recorded. A headline time or round count does not always provide a complete movement breakdown. Check the movement details when you scale a workout or stop at a cap; the prescription alone does not prove what you completed.

Why a metcon total cannot stand in for a max

Fran prescribes 21-15-9 thrusters and pull-ups, with 95 lb thrusters in the men's Rx version. The 21 thrusters might be unbroken, or you might split them into three sets of seven. The stored block total does not tell PRzilla which happened or how much you rested.

Grace is 30 clean and jerks for time, at 135 lb in the men's Rx version. Applying the Epley formula to that total would give 135 × (1 + 30 ÷ 30) = 270 lb. Finishing Grace does not establish a 270 lb clean and jerk. Those 30 reps could have been singles throughout.

The error can go the other way too. A load you chose to repeat through a metcon may be well below your best single. Treating that conditioning load as your maximum could understate your strength.

PRzilla therefore estimates 1RM from standalone sets of 1 to 10 reps. It excludes higher-rep sets. Multi-rep WOD components are excluded even at 10 reps or fewer, because a work-block total does not establish one unbroken set.

A logged single can count

If a WOD strength block asks you to find a heavy single and you record the successful rep and load, that result can count. One successful rep needs no projection: the weight is direct evidence.

A prescribed load sitting in a workout template is not the same evidence. The app needs your recorded result.

How to reach three qualifying lifts

Open My Fitness → Strength to see which lifts already have results. For another lift from the tracked list, record a successful set of 1 to 10 reps as its own lift, with the load and reps you actually completed. A strength piece before or after the metcon can supply that evidence; it does not have to be a one-rep-max test.

Keep the metcon logged as the WOD. Avoid duplicating its totals as standalone sets just to fill the card, since that would also duplicate your training volume.

For more detail, read why high-rep WOD sets don't determine your 1RM, how WOD movement history works, and why workout totals and movement PRs are different.