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Looking back · Fri 21 Aug 2026

How should you train today?

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Rest day

Held by a safety rule: injured today or yesterday.

Training loadcontextgood

last 7 days averaged 39 exercise min a day vs 34 over the last 4 weeks (1.15×): within the normal range; 3 rest days in the last 7, with a mix of longer and shorter sessions (monotony 1.2)

Effort (RPE)contextgood

sessions felt RPE 8.2 over the last 7 days vs 8.3 in the 4 weeks before

Sleepvotesgood

6.8 h last night; 7.1 h a night over the last 3 nights vs 6.1 h over the 30 before

HRV & resting HRcontextgood

HRV 45 over the last 7 days vs 46 over the 30 before; resting HR 60 vs 60, same windows

How you feelvotesstrain

back spasm today; a back spasm means rest, whatever else says (your rule)

Nutritioncontextgood

eating 2,162 kcal a day over 3 complete days of the last 4 vs ~2,758 to maintain (4-week trend); protein 152 g a day over the same days vs 143 g target

Weight-loss pacecontextgood

losing 0.43% of body weight a week (last 4 weeks vs the 4 before): not fast enough to cost recovery (above 1% a week); this checks too fast, not too slow

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Only areas with a record vote: an area votes once your sessions on its flagged days have gone worse than on its clear days (see Is the call working?). The rest are shown as context. Take it easy with one voting area in strain or two to watch, rest with two in strain. Going hard needs a reason that has itself gone with better sessions, never just nothing flagged. A safety rule (a health note, or coming back from a near-idle stretch) makes it a take-it-easy day whatever the record says. The score sits inside the call's band (rest 0–24, take it easy 25–49, as planned 50–74, go hard 75–100), higher the more areas are clear.

Rest Back is spasming. No session — this is the rule you already use.

Today's session, if you train

Pull A · Barbell Deadlift
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Next in your push → pull → legs rotation after push on Tue 18 Aug. Exercises from your last Pull A (Tue 11 Aug); each target comes from the last time you did that exercise.

Each target comes from the last normal session of that exercise; deload days never set one. Main lifts: an estimated max from that session's sets and their RPEs, 5 lb more, and the reps that would land at RPE 8–9.5. A missed target holds the weight. Accessories: add a rep up to 12 (15 for calves, laterals, shrugs, face pulls, leg extensions, flyes), then add load and drop to the bottom of the range. Bodyweight: beat the last total reps by 1–2. No RPE logged: repeat it. A take-it-easy day is 80% of last time's sets and weight; a flagged back makes it 60%, every lift still in.

Back flagged: every lift stays in at 60% of last time's sets and weight. Stop each set by RPE 8, and mark a lift skip in the check-in if it hurts.
Rest day. The verdict above says rest; this is what the next session looks like when you do train.
ExerciseTodayWhyLast time
Barbell Deadlift 175 × 5, 175 × 5
deload
40% off last time (290 × 5, 290 × 5, 290 × 5); stop each set by RPE 8 290 × 5, 290 × 5, 290 × 5 · Tue 11 Aug
Pull-Up 9, 7
deload
40% off last time (9, 7, 6); stop each set by RPE 8 9, 7, 6 · Tue 11 Aug
Barbell Curl 50 × 9, 50 × 8
deload
40% off last time (85 × 9, 85 × 8, 85 × 8); stop each set by RPE 8 85 × 9, 85 × 8, 85 × 8 · Tue 11 Aug
Dumbbell Row 50 × 11, 50 × 10
deload
40% off last time (85 × 11, 85 × 10, 85 × 10); stop each set by RPE 8 85 × 11, 85 × 10, 85 × 10 · Tue 11 Aug

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