Mesocycles and deload weeks
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Louis Deveseleer
- Training cycles of 4 to 8 weeks-long (mesocycles) with deload weeks between them.
- The information should be visible on the calendar (past and future) to see where we stand in the current cycle, and retrieve past information easily.
- Training variables should be automatically affected by our position in the cycle, for example start with higher reps lower weight at the beginning, increase intensity as we move through a cycle, and half the volume and weight during deload week (or suggest exercises that work other systems).
Louis Deveseleer
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This can now be programmed with the "Training plans": you can plan your training for extended periods of time with scheduling templates for several routines repeating in complex patterns, and include deload weeks. The automatic progressions (changing the training variables such as weight and reps) will be tackled separately later this year, when we add more complete progression schemes to the app.
Игорь Круговых
Will this feature be added to the journey or will it offer to start a deload week even if I don't do the journey but just create workouts?
Louis Deveseleer
Игорь Круговых I'm not sure about the details, because this is a long-term idea that will require substantial feature additions, and there is still a lot of designing to do.
But in any case, the cycling/deload will be managed somewhere outside of individual journeys, so that you can follow split routines, and take all your workouts into account in the cycle (even extra sessions done on the side for recovery, flexibility or cardio).