How VECTYR programs your training

It starts with structured data, not a template

When you sign up, VECTYR asks once: your track (Foundation, Architect, Performance, or Hybrid), sport and position, season phase, where you sit on the physique-versus-performance dial, equipment access, training days per week, minutes per session, experience level, and goal.

Those answers become a generated program — not a pre-written plan with your name on it. Change any of them later (new gym, new season, new schedule) and the program regenerates around the change.

Progressive overload, made explicit

VECTYR uses double progression. Every exercise has a rep range. When you hit the top of the range, the app tells you exactly what to add to the bar: +5 lb on imperial, +2.5 kg on metric. Until then, you add reps at the same weight.

Every set you log feeds PR tracking. Coaching cues reference your actual history — "last week you hit 195×6, add 10 lb" — and rest timers are assigned per exercise, with longer rests on heavy compound lifts than on isolation work.

Weekly volume targets by muscle group

Each muscle group gets a weekly set-volume target range — enough volume to grow, capped before junk volume. Targets scale with your experience level: a beginner and an advanced lifter do not get the same landing zone.

Season phase scales the same targets for athletes: in-season volume runs at roughly 60% of off-season, pre-season at about 80%, and post-season at about 70%, so lifting supports your sport instead of competing with it.

Season-aware programming for 20+ sports

Athlete and Hybrid tracks program from your sport, position, and season phase. In-season, training volume drops by around 40% and conditioning is kept low — maintain strength, minimize fatigue, two to three gym sessions max. Pre-season raises conditioning; off-season is where heavy building happens.

Position matters where it should: a lineman and a wide receiver, or a sprinter and a distance runner, get different priority muscles and different conditioning demands.

Training blocks and deload weeks

The Mesocycle Tracker maps your training onto four-week blocks: three loading weeks with rising volume and intensity, then a deload week programmed at half volume and roughly 70% intensity so you recover and come back stronger.

The tracker shows exactly where you are in the block and what the phase focus is — hypertrophy, strength, or power, depending on where your physique-performance dial sits.

Programs that match your equipment

Full Gym, Home Gym (Basic or Advanced), Minimal Equipment, or strict Bodyweight Only — each mode draws from its own exercise pool. Bodyweight Only never asks you for a barbell.

Switch modes any time (travel, home training week, new gym) and the program adapts to what you actually have.

Nutrition computed from the same data

Calorie and macro targets are computed from your body stats, goal, and real training load — training days per week set your activity multiplier, and athlete tracks and in-season phases add to it.

Log meals with food search or AI photo scanning (Premium), and progress tracking ties the two sides together: weight trend, strength charts, and coaching insights that tell you what to fix next.

Common questions