NVP Progression Program Changes in the App, is it Automatic?

[Erich Weidner]

I've been using the app for 9 training sessions (M-W-F) so far. The app has me on the starting A/B sequence (A: Squat Press Deadlift, B: Squat Bench Press, Deadlift). I only did about 3 sessions prior to this on Starting Strengh prior to the app, and was mainly just focusing on form and digesting the book.)

- Will the app automatically move me to the next step (A/B but where the deadlift is A, Power Clean is B)?
- For my wife (she has her own copy of the app and has only done two sessions so far), will the app switch to work sets of 5x3 after a few months as recommended on p.103 of Practical Programming?

I note that the warmup set progression for her is sets of 3 reps, and a work sets of 5. Glad to see the programming is taking into account M/F differences in programming.

Cheers,

[Erich Weidner]

While I was waiting for my post (above) to publish on the forum. I emailed support, here are the answers I recieved. Putting them here in case anyone else finds them useful.

> Hello,
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> I've been using the app for 9 training sessions (M-W-F) so far. The app has me on the starting A/B sequence (A: Squat Press Deadlift, B: Squat Bench Press, Deadlift). I only did about 3 sessions prior to this on Starting Strength prior to the app, and was mainly just focusing on form and digesting the book.)
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> Will the app automatically move me to the next step (A/B but where the deadlift is A, power clean is B)?
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> IT won’t automatically do this, but it will suggest the time to do it, which is when you’ve successfully deadlifted your bodyweight.
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> For my wife (she has her own copy of the app and has only done two sessions so far), will the app switch to work sets of 5x3 after a few months as recommended on p.103 of Practical Programming?
No it will not do it automatically, its up to the trainee to decide when best to do this.
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> Does the app take into account age of lifter for any of the programming?
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> No it does not.
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> Will the app move the warmup weight up from 45lbs on its own or is this always a manual process?
It will for deadlift once you’re deadlifting more than 225lbs / 100kgs. For the other exercises you should always be starting your warmups with an empty bar.

[stef]

Yep, you're going to get faster support by going directly to their support than waiting for them to publish your post and answer it here. You can see ideas/questions/solutions by others here and this is where answers to the group work out better.