Autoregulation

Autoregulation means adjusting a session's load or volume based on how the person responds that day, instead of following a number set weeks earlier. It leans on effort scales such as RIR or RPE: if the prescribed set came out at RIR 4 instead of RIR 1, the weight goes up; if it went to failure, it comes down.

Autoregulation

In practice

It is what separates a program that survives real life from a spreadsheet that assumes every week is identical. Nobody sleeps, eats and works the same for twelve weeks straight.

Related terms

RIR (reps in reserve)RIR is how many repetitions someone could still have completed at the end of a set before reaching technical failure RPE (rate of perceived exertion)RPE is a 1-to-10 scale on which someone rates how hard an effort felt Assisted progressionAssisted progression is load progression where the software writes the weights and reps of upcoming sessions from the sets, reps and RIR the client logged, while the coach keeps the decisions: the routine does not reach the client until they send it, any week they edit drops out of the calculation permanently, and automatic progression switches on and off globally and client by client.DeloadA deload is a planned period, almost always a week, in which volume or intensity comes down so the body can finish absorbing the accumulated work Training to failure won't build more muscle — why RIR is the smarter way to gauge effort See the whole glossary

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Autoregulation

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