Engineering

Under the Hood

Here's what's actually happening behind the scenes when Myotect builds your programme and tracks your progress.

11
Scoring factors per exercise
300+
Exercises in the library
15+
Tracked muscle groups
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Data collected from you
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Smart Exercise Selection

Not random — every choice is deliberate

  • The app evaluates 11 factors for every exercise choice: muscle targeting, movement type, equipment, experience level, stretch emphasis, staleness, and more
  • It prefers exercises that train muscles in a stretched position — recent research shows this produces better results
  • A greedy interleave algorithm spaces exercises so the same muscle never appears back-to-back
  • Base movement deduplication prevents multiple variants of the same lift (e.g. three deadlift types) on one day
  • Exercises rotate between mesocycles so you're not doing the same thing for months
  • Beginners get guided toward simpler movements first, progressing naturally as they advance
Lengthened-position training produces superior hypertrophy (Pedrosa et al., 2023). Exercise variation enhances muscle growth through novel loading patterns (Fonseca et al., 2014).
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Automatic Progression

You lift, the app handles the maths

  • Work within your rep range — when you hit the top on all sets, weight goes up automatically
  • If you're stuck at a weight for multiple sessions, the app reduces it so you can build back up
  • Bodyweight exercises progress by reps with a sensible cap, then prompt adding external load
  • Prominent visual indicators highlight weight increases — a celebration banner and green accents make progression feel rewarding
  • You never need to calculate anything — the app tells you exactly what to do next
Progressive overload is the most well-supported principle in resistance training (Kraemer & Ratamess, 2004).
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Adapts to Your Day

Because not every day is the same

  • Before each session, you rate your sleep, stress, and motivation — the app weighs these based on how much each actually affects performance
  • Bad night's sleep? The app tells you and suggests adjusting
  • Your RIR (effort level) on every set feeds into how the app manages your fatigue over weeks
  • Difficulty ratings after each exercise shape the next mesocycle's programming
Auto-regulation based on daily readiness produces comparable or superior results to rigid programming (Helms et al., 2016, 2018).
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Structured Training Blocks

Hard weeks, then recovery — by design

  • Each mesocycle ramps up in difficulty, then backs off with a deload week
  • The deload isn't wasted time — it's where your body consolidates the gains from the hard weeks
  • Volume, intensity, and rest periods are all tuned to the phase of training you're in
  • The next mesocycle adapts based on how you actually performed, not a generic template
Periodised training produces better results than non-periodised approaches across multiple large-scale studies (Harries et al., 2015; Williams et al., 2017).
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Tracks Every Muscle

Not just what you lifted — where it went

  • Every muscle group has a weekly volume target based on published research and your experience level
  • The app shows you exactly how many sets you've done vs your target, per muscle, per week
  • Between mesocycles, muscles that are lagging get priority in the next block
  • Warm-up sets don't count — only working sets contribute to your volume
Higher weekly set volumes produce greater muscle growth up to a point (Schoenfeld & Krieger, 2017). The app uses your data to find your individual sweet spot.
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Myotect Strength Index

One number for your total-body strength

  • Combines your best lift from every muscle group into a single score, adjusted for body weight
  • Two people of different sizes can compare scores directly
  • Rewards balanced training — weak muscles pull the score down
  • Tracked over time so you can see genuine, sustained progress
Relative strength metrics are widely used in strength sport for cross-weight-class comparison. The composite approach encourages the balanced development that research supports.
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It Learns From You

Every session makes the next one smarter

  • Muscles that didn't progress well get more attention in the next mesocycle
  • Exercises you've already done get rotated out for fresh variations
  • The app checks that you're training each muscle often enough and fills gaps if needed
  • As you progress from beginner to intermediate, the exercises evolve with you
Prioritising lagging muscle groups and varying exercise selection are both supported by the hypertrophy research literature.