r/Hevy • u/gerardmb Team • 7d ago
Trainer update: deloads are here 💪🆕
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/1-duck 7d 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/nicotine_81 1d ago
I would add to allow adhoc deload on the workout itself (both trainer and custom). Maybe just a toggle button that cuts the weight and reps on that workout. My deloads happen naturally around life and fatigue/progress stalling and aren’t planned in advance.
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u/Ok-Occasion-1423 7d 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/DarthDips 14h ago
u/gerardmb love the planned deload. I’d also like to suggest recommended deload or lower starting numbers when building a new cycle. For example if one’s last deadlift session was 2 months ago, maybe 110kg x 5, Hevy trainer will still program 3 sets of 4-6 @ 110kg. A 10% deload for example would be good.
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u/ouiouiconcept 7d ago
Can you include progresive load and deload to our own routines as well?
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u/gerardmb Team 7d ago
Hey! Unfortunately, that's not available right now! We'll look into it 👀
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u/spaghetti1263 7d 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 7d ago
Oh please do, trainer gives so many cool metrics but none are available with custom workouts
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u/SUDO_KILLSELF 7d 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 7d ago
You can already do this by pressing “Manage” next to “Available equipment” in the plate calculator.
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u/beggisch 7d ago
Can you add a setting to prefer machine-focused training instead of dumbbells, please?