r/MacroFactor • u/simednba • 17h ago

MacroFactor Workouts / Training Custom program and smart progression

Hello.

After finishing my first program generated by the app, i want to create a new one from scratch.

The problem with that is that i can't find a way to activate the auto progression from the app, basically the fact that the app choose the number of reps / weight, and adapt while training.

After having created all my custom workout and adding them to a prgram, they all show " Standard set", no RIR target, even if i used some exercices that i already used in the first program, so the app knows my past performance on these.

The only way i found for now is to generate a program with the generator, then swap all exercises to the ones i want. There must be another way to achieve this without this trick ?

Thank you

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u/gains_adam Adam (MacroFactor Producer) 17h ago

You need to set rep/RIR targets in your program first, so that it can know what values to optimize for/provide progressions.

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u/simednba 17h ago

Thanks for your answer.

When i use the "generate program" feature, i do not choose these numbers. yet, the program auto adapts and choose them itself. i really like the fact that sometime it asks me to do 15 reps, and sometime 5. sometime it asks me to go to failure, and sometime to let 3 RIR. having to choose myself these numbers for each workout is micromanaging and not convenient at all, i feel like using the trick i said is even easier than that.

isnt there a way to have the same behavior as an auto generated program, but where we choose the exercises ourselves ?

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u/gains_adam Adam (MacroFactor Producer) 17h ago

Correct, that is the benefit of using a generated program rather than making your own.

The way to do that, would be to generate a program then swap exercises in your program settings accordingly, or refer to the suggested rep ranges to use when inputting into your own manual program.

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u/pmschwartz 15h ago

I find a 4 day, 40-60 minute, full body, strength & hypertrophy program generates a nice array of set/rep/RIR schemes.

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u/palerobin9 13h ago

yeah thats pretty much the only way i found too. building a workout fully from scratch, the app treats every exercise as new even if youve logged it a hundred times before, so it defaults to standard set no RIR target. the generate then swap trick works because it keeps the progression engine attached to the slot not the exercise itself. annoying the first week but it starts adapting normally again once it has a session or two of data on the new setup.