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    How your strength workouts progress

    After every strength workout LeCoach sets your weights, reps and holds for next time from how it felt.

    After every strength workout, LeCoach sets the numbers for next time from your answers on the done screen. You don't have to keep track of your weights yourself, and the done screen shows what changes, for example "Next time: 2x 12kg instead of 2x 10kg".

    Exercises with a weight

    For cyclists and runners, strength training is about getting stronger. So the weight goes up and the reps stay the same.

    • Too easy: the next weight up.

    • Just right: the same weight again. When it feels just right again, the next weight up.

    • Too hard: the next weight down, straight away.

    • Skipped sets or missed reps without saying it was too hard: the same again.

    The steps are small and follow the weights you can actually pick up: dumbbells go up in small steps, a barbell by a pair of small plates.

    Exercises without a weight

    Bodyweight and band exercises get a few more reps when they feel easy or just right, and fewer when they're too hard. Holds such as a plank get a little longer or shorter the same way.

    Every exercise on its own

    Each exercise progresses on its own, so a squat can move up while a row stays where it is. Rate the whole workout and every exercise follows that answer; open Difficulty per exercise to rate them one by one.

    Starting out

    New plans start on safe weights. The first time you do an exercise, the rest after its first set asks whether the weight is right. A workout you haven't done yet starts from your last weight for that exercise.

    You stay in charge

    Change any weight, rep or set yourself, before or during a workout. After you change a weight, LeCoach offers to use it for every exercise on the same equipment in that workout. The done screen shows the weight you used for each exercise, so you can correct it before you save.