Bird-Dogs

Where to put the phone

On hands and knees at a three-quarter angle, so the extended arm and the extended leg are both visible.

Stand at roughly 45° to the phone. The counter still reads the cycle from the front or the side; the angle only decides how much technique detail the camera can see.

What closes a rep

Extend opposite arm and leg, return to tabletop. Every return counts.

What makes the counter wait

Extend both limbs. Arm only or leg only does not close the cycle.

Alternating movements are counted on every drive. A repeat on the same side is still counted, it is just not ranked, and the recap shows “alternate sides” as the advisory.

One tip

Alternate diagonals. Same-side repeats are counted but not ranked.

After the set

Every set ends with the same recap: reps counted, time, pace, the longest run, pauses, whether the second half held up, and the camera angle the phone actually saw. Technique detail is measured for the recap and never used to refuse a rep. Why we count and do not grade →