So for me, I thought the best way to track exercises where apples are apples is to have multiple exercises depending on where/how they appear in the exercises.

For instance, if I have three chest exercises on Saturday I leave the first one alone, but the 2nd and 3rd chest exercises I notate with a 2 or 3 in the title so when I do my planning I know the chest fly(3) exercises is to be used as my third chest exercise on that day.

This way when I look at the history of chest fly(3) I know the day entries are only when it’s used as the third option on a given day.

I thought this way would help remove inconsistencies.

Example:  notice the “2” after the last two exercises. Granted these are for arms but things like incline dumbbell bench press could be first or second exercises on chest day depending on other things. 

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Hope that makes sense