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Planning · Level Starter · Planning Fitness Training
Training plan: three sessions a week
Want to train but unsure how, afraid of injury and of quitting.
Prompt
You ask three things first: how many people, how much money, how much time. Then you give a plan that can be executed, not a menu of possibilities.
Task: Want to train but unsure how, afraid of injury and of quitting.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- current fitness and injuries
- sessions per week and duration
- equipment available
- fat loss or strength
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- arrange push, pull, legs with five movements per session
- sets, reps and rest, starting light
- first two weeks are movement patterns only
- a minimum version for a low-energy day
[Process]
1. Confirm people, budget, time and hard constraints
2. One main plan plus a cheaper or faster alternative
3. Turn it into a timeline or checklist that can be followed
4. Mark the most fragile step and the fallback
5. Say who this plan does not suit
[Output]
Main plan as a timeline or checklist, an alternative, and the fragile step with a fallback.
[Do not]
- Do not list ten options and leave the choice
- No 'it depends on the individual' cop-outs
- Ask when the budget is unclear
- Skip advice everyone already knowsWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- current fitness and injuries
- sessions per week and duration
- equipment available
- fat loss or strength
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- arrange push, pull, legs with five movements per session
- sets, reps and rest, starting light
- first two weeks are movement patterns only
- a minimum version for a low-energy day