How Moow Builds a Weekly Workout From Your Goal and Schedule

Moow's current workout planner turns selected onboarding preferences and a reviewed exercise catalog into a repeatable bodyweight-first week—with explicit limits.

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  • The current generator uses selected profile preferences and a versioned exercise catalog.
  • It filters for bodyweight-first accessibility, then ranks exercises for the week's focus.
  • The plan organizes general fitness; it does not diagnose symptoms or observe readiness in real time.

The inputs the current planner reads

The current service reads workout days, session duration, experience, goal, secondary priorities, recovery rating, plan pace, preferred split, impact preference, home-space size, focus areas, movement limitations, and schedule windows from onboarding. Workout frequency is kept between two and six days, and the service uses defined fallbacks for several missing or unsupported settings.

Those inputs are preferences, not measurements. A recovery answer describes what the person reported; it is not live clinical monitoring. Schedule windows are retained in the weekly result, but the current generator spaces sessions using fixed day patterns for the selected number of workout days. It does not yet optimize exact session dates from every named window.

Personalization begins with declared context; it is not the same as knowing the body in real time.

How the week gets its structure

The planner anchors a Monday-to-Sunday week and chooses a focus template for the requested frequency. Depending on preferences, that can include full-body, push, pull, legs, conditioning, cardio, mobility and core, or recovery sessions. A selected split and muscle-building goal can favor push–pull–legs when the accessible catalog can support it.

Focus areas can move a relevant session earlier in the generated order. A struggling recovery rating, gentle pace, mobility focus, or sleep priority can increase recovery emphasis. These are deterministic rules in the current implementation, not an AI diagnosis. The same user, profile, week, catalog, and generation version produce the same plan identity.

  • Frequency selects a bounded weekly template.
  • Goal, split, focus areas, pace, and recovery answers adjust emphasis.
  • The current calendar spacing is rule-based, not open-ended scheduling intelligence.

How exercises get selected and prescribed

The current plan is bodyweight-first: non-bodyweight catalog entries are filtered out. High-impact movements are excluded for a low-impact preference; exercises that need more space than selected are removed; and sensitivity tags are checked against reported movement limitations. If too few exercises remain, the template shifts toward mobility and recovery rather than pretending a complete strength menu exists.

Remaining exercises are ranked for the session focus, goal, experience, pace, recovery, impact choice, focus areas, available demonstrations, and variety across the week. Session duration influences exercise count. Experience and context affect difficulty, sets, repetitions or timed work, and rest. Displayed calories are a category-based estimate, not a wearable measurement or metabolic test.

The generator selects from the catalog it has; a filtered list cannot guarantee that every individual movement is appropriate.

What the plan does not know

Moow preserves completed sets and session progress when a generated plan still matches its stored version. A new week, profile change, catalog change, or generation-version change can produce a different plan. That versioning supports consistency and traceability; it does not prove that the new plan reflects symptoms you have not entered or changes a camera has not assessed.

Use the week as organized general fitness guidance. Stop or modify movement for sharp pain, chest discomfort, faintness, severe unusual breathlessness, or loss of control. Movement limitations in onboarding are coarse filters, not medical clearance. A clinician or qualified professional remains necessary when injury, pregnancy, disability, or a health condition requires individual assessment.

Sources

  1. ACSM: Resistance training guidelines update (2026)
  2. CDC: Physical activity recommendations for adults
  3. WHO: Guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour

Moow's generated week is general fitness organization, not medical screening, live readiness monitoring, diagnosis, or rehabilitation. Stop for sharp pain, chest discomfort, faintness, severe unusual breathlessness, or loss of control, and seek individualized guidance when a condition, injury, pregnancy, or disability changes exercise safety.

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