Fatigue-Aware Swaps
When tomorrow's plan hits still-sore muscles, Kinoku offers a one-tap swap to a routine that targets rested ones.
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The swap card on Today notes that legs are still recovering and suggests Pool Technique tomorrow at 100% fresh, with a Keep plan button beside Swap.
What it is
Fatigue-Aware Swaps is a Pro check that reads tomorrow’s plan and flags the days where the plan and your recovery disagree. Tomorrow is chest day on your plan, and your chest is still sore from a hard session earlier in the week, so training it again may not be the best use of the day. Kinoku spots the clash and offers an easy way around it.
How it works
- It looks ahead. When half or more of tomorrow’s plan lands on muscles that are still tired, Kinoku takes note.
- It looks for a better fit. Your saved routines get checked for one that mostly hits rested muscles instead.
- It offers a swap. A card on the Today screen holds the swap, one tap away.
Taking the swap updates the plan, while keeping your plan makes the card step aside for the rest of the day.
Why a check the day before
A plan gets written before the week happens. You picked the days in advance, with no way of knowing which session would leave you sore, and nothing in a calendar notices that on its own.
A clashing day is also the one most likely to be skipped outright. Swapping a sore day for a fresh one keeps the session inside the week rather than turning it into a gap you make up later.
The timing matters as well. Checking tomorrow rather than today leaves the session still movable, so acting on the clash costs nothing but a tap.
If nothing fits
Sometimes no saved routine is fresh enough, and Kinoku says so rather than filling the slot with a swap that is barely better. A rest day is the suggestion in that case.
Where the check runs out
The swap can only offer routines you have saved, so a week trained freestyle gives it nothing to reach for. The tired-muscle read also comes from the sets you logged, which means an unlogged session leaves a muscle looking fresher on screen than it feels in the gym.
You make the call
Kinoku reads your own history, names the clash it found, and puts a safer option beside it. Nothing on your calendar moves until you tap.
Part of Pro
Swaps are Pro. Free still shows your muscle map and tomorrow’s plan, so the same call is yours to make by eye. Pro is the app noticing first and putting the alternative one tap away, which is worth paying for in a heavy week and worth very little in a quiet one.
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