Where to put the phone

Take the split stance before the set starts, feet planted, whole body in frame.

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

Lower straight down, drive back up. The rep closes at the top.

What makes the counter wait

Both feet stay planted the whole set. Lifting the rear foot turns the movement into a lunge step and the cycle does not close.

One tip

Switch legs between sets, not between reps. Each side is its own set in the recap.

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 →