About reps, sets and other parameters

All exercises within your exercise programme indicate how often or how long you should perform the exercise. If your healthcare practitioner has chosen to enable adherence tracking when assigning your exercise programme, you can indicate for each exercise how many of the prescribed repetitions you performed.

The instructions below are guidelines only. Your healthcare practitioner may have meant something different. If in doubt, always contact your healthcare practitioner.

Repetitions (Reps)

• A repetition (or “rep”) means doing a movement once from start to finish.
• Example: If your exercise is a knee bend, bending and straightening your knee one time counts as 1 rep.

Sets

• A set is a group of repetitions that you perform together before taking a short rest.
• Example: If your programme says 10 reps per set, you would do the movement 10 times in a row, then pause for a break.

Putting it together

• If your programme says:

• 9 sets of 10 reps

  This means:

1. Do the exercise 10 times in a row (10 reps).
2. Take a short break.
3. Repeat this sequence two more times (9 sets total).

Other Parameters

Your programme may also include:

• hold (only visible after opening the exercise) - indicates the number of seconds (or minutes) you have to hold a certain position.
• bpm (only visible after opening the exercise) - stands for beats per minute, or the maximum heart rate to be achieved during exercise
• duration (only visible after opening the exercise) - indicates how many minutes this exercise should be performed. You see this parameter most often in cardio exercises.