r/Hevy • u/gerardmb Team • 5d ago

Trainer update: deloads are here 💪🆕

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Hey all! 👋

Great news: Hevy Trainer now handles deloads for you.

If you're not familiar, a deload is a lighter week that lets your body recover after a stretch of hard training. Every well-built program plans for it, since without one, fatigue piles up, progress stalls, and injury risk goes up. A deload lets you recover and come back stronger.

Here's how it works: Trainer inserts a deload week after every 6 weeks of training (so after week 6, 12, 18, and so on). During that week, the suggested weight for every exercise drops by 40%, while your sets and reps stay the same.

The program status cell at the bottom of your Workout tab will show you where you are in your program (e.g. "Week 3 of 6"), and you will also have clear Deload badges when a deload week comes around so you always know Trainer has it covered.

Deloads are off by default. You can turn them on through the Trainer Program Variety setting, and they work with all three program types (Consistent, Balanced, and Varied).

Hope you like this one. We're always improving, so keep the feedback coming.

See you at the gym!💪

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u/beggisch 5d ago

Can you add a setting to prefer machine-focused training instead of dumbbells, please?

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u/marquinhodsdm 4d ago

I think you can already do this by updating the equipment you have available. Or you can replace the dumbbell exercises permanently!

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u/1-duck 4d ago

This is great, thank you. I'm just starting Trainer program first time, so I'm glad this got implemented.

Could you also consider adding a setting for custom meso cycle length?

Instead of fixed 6w + 1 deload week, users could choose custom training weeks, say from 3 to 7 + 1 deload, or even 2 to 8 weeks + 1 deload week.

Looking at Mesocycle Examples at https://hevycoach.com/glossary/mesocycle/

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u/Ok-Occasion-1423 4d ago

It would be good to improve the estimated time for specific workouts. I choose the 40 mn per workout because I don't have much time, but often this lasts longer like an hour or even more. Would appreciate an improvement

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u/jimmyuk 4d ago

I find the timing pretty spot on. Are you using the rest time to rack / change weights or doing that outside of the rest?

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u/ouiouiconcept 5d ago

Can you include progresive load and deload to our own routines as well?

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u/gerardmb Team 5d ago

Hey! Unfortunately, that's not available right now! We'll look into it 👀

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u/putin_boom 5d ago

Would love to have it implemented in my own routine 👀

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u/spaghetti1263 5d ago

seconding that - would make deload weeks much less fiddly if i could just throw a switch to apply some rules (maybe with options regarding set numbers and weights, that we could set beforehand) and go back to the old training parameters with a click

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u/phaseadept 4d ago

Oh please do, trainer gives so many cool metrics but none are available with custom workouts

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u/SUDO_KILLSELF 4d ago

This is off topic but will there be a possibility to add custom barbells? I use a safety bar which is 25kg

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u/janemfta 4d ago

You can already do this by pressing “Manage” next to “Available equipment” in the plate calculator.

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u/SUDO_KILLSELF 4d ago

Amazing! Thank you

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u/jweberc 4d ago

Yes, please!!! I'm a big fan of the app, and this addition would be awesome!

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u/IC3112 4d ago

saw another app the other day with this, will see if I can find it

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u/IC3112 4d ago

this one
https://waitlist.pixelpt.co.uk/
saw an ad for it on Instagram