Where to put the phone

Whole body in frame with room behind you for the step. A three-quarter angle keeps both legs readable.

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

Step back, lower until the front thigh is loaded, return to standing. Every drive back to standing counts.

What makes the counter wait

Alternate sides. A repeat on the same leg is still counted, it is just not ranked.

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

Keep the stepping foot on the floor at the bottom. A floating rear foot reads as a balance drill, not a lunge.

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 →