Progress photos that are a series, not a before and after

A before-and-after pair is the least trustworthy image in fitness, and everybody knows it. Two photographs months apart differ in light, posture, time of day and how recently somebody ate — and any of those moves more than the training did.

What a series fixes that a pair cannot

Three hundred frames cannot be staged. You can hold a good pose on one day; you cannot hold it on two hundred consecutive ones, and the days you were tired or bloated or badly lit are in there beside the good ones. What survives that averaging is the only part that was real.

It is also the honest answer to a plateau. Progress in the middle of a long block is invisible week to week and obvious across a season — which is exactly the interval a daily series covers and a monthly photograph does not.

One frame a day, one album

The reminder lands at an hour you pick, in your time zone. Same time each day matters here more than most: light and posture drift with the hour, and a fixed slot removes one of the few variables you control.

One frame per day per album, so a heavy session on Saturday does not buy the week. If you want to track two things — a lift and a bodyweight change, say — those are two albums with two streaks and two films, and missing one does not reset the other.

Kept, and for how long

Every day's frame stays for good on a free account. The original photograph is kept ninety days free, and for as long as the account lives on Selfeed Pro.

Who sees it

Nobody by default. Being visible takes three deliberate acts — a handle, a public profile, a featured album — and the featured one is a single album, so a training series can stay shut while something else is public, or the reverse.

Shared, it reaches the people who follow you on their home screen with no notification. This is the subject where that matters most: the middle of a block is where people quit, and the middle is exactly when nothing visible is happening.

Start where you actually started

On iOS, past days fill from the camera roll — ninety days back on a free account, the whole library on Pro. If the block began before this page did, the series can begin with it.