The gate that didn't know.

Five asks. Four were UI. The first one was an integration bug, and it’s the one worth a paragraph.

The race in the exit gate

“If I press all the CTAs really quickly, all the way to logging an AMRAP rep, it does not go to the BBB screen. It just goes straight back to the Home screen.”

The Live screen has two things watching the session at the same time. One routes to the BBB prompt screen after you save your AMRAP reps. The other is a defensive exit gate — if the session gets deleted or cancelled from somewhere else while you’re mid-rep, it bounces you home so you don’t get stranded on a meaningless mid-session screen.

The trouble is that when you tap fast, the session’s “completed” status lands in the database before the routing effect has a chance to fire. The exit gate sees “session is complete, this isn’t a case I know to ignore” and sends you home. The BBB routing effect then fires a tick later and tries to navigate to the BBB screen — but you’re already on Home, and the race is on.

The fix: tell the exit gate about the cases it should ignore. “I’m routing to BBB” and “I’m routing to the PR celebration” are both states the exit gate should stand down for. The gate keeps its job — it still catches “session deleted from another surface” — but it stops second-guessing the routing logic when the session is closing normally.

The fast taps mattered because they squeezed multiple steps into the same render window. On a slow tap, each step had time to settle before the next one started.

Cancel session, out

“Remove cancel session feature completely.”

Restart wipes the set records and keeps the session going from set 1. Cancel marked the session abandoned and dropped the user on the home screen. With Restart available, Cancel was a second destructive option that read as the same gesture with a confusing nuance between them.

Restart is the only mid-session escape now. Either you’re training, or you’re starting this session over. There’s no third option.

The three polish passes

AMRAP header. The “AMRAP” badge was inline with the lift title. It wanted to live with the coaching line instead — stacked above “As many reps as possible. Push for a PR, leave 1 in the tank.” The badge is now there. Also: the em dash in that sentence is gone. Two shorter sentences read cleaner than one with a bridge.

PR celebration. Two changes. The “Skip to receipt” link is gone — the screen is a moment, not a junction, and the user can go back if they really want to skip. And the “YOU HIT A NEW PR” eyebrow grew up: bigger, no stars, the way a header should behave when it’s been acting like one all along.

What’s queued next

Nothing held over. The cancel feature’s gone; the exit gate knows what to ignore; both screens read the way the user wants them to.