Muscle Recovery Overview

Every set you log fatigues its muscle group, and time pays it back over about three days. The Today screen shows how ready you are overall, how many muscle groups are ready and recovering, and which is most fatigued, with the muscles shaded on a body figure.

Aveldo Today screen: the week strip with five trained days, a 12 week streak, this week 5 of 3, a recovery overview showing 44% ready to train with 5 muscle groups ready and 11 recovering, and the Start Workout card

How does Aveldo know which muscles are ready to train?

From your log. Each completed set knocks a fixed slice off its muscle group's recovery, and recovery returns linearly over 72 hours. The Recovery Overview on the Today screen sums that up as a readiness percentage, the number of ready and recovering groups, and the most fatigued group with its remaining time.

This is a model, deliberately simple and deliberately honest about it. It reads the sets you logged and the clock, nothing else. Use it as a reminder of what you trained recently, not as a verdict on how you feel.

What you see

Recovery on the Today screen and in its detail

The overview is one card; its detail has two faces.

Recovery Overview

The readiness percentage with its bar, ready and recovering muscle group counts, and the most fatigued group with an estimate of hours to full recovery.

Muscles

The detail's list face: every muscle group with its recovery, sorted so the most fatigued lead.

Body

The detail's figure face: front and back, each muscle group shaded from fatigued to fresh.

Routine readiness PRO

One dial per routine, showing how recovered the muscles its planned sets load are, so you can pick the routine your body is ready for.

Why it is here

Recovery in a progress tracker

Aveldo is about progress, and recovery is one of its inputs: a muscle group that is trained again before it has recovered rarely progresses. The overview is there so the answer to "what should I train today" has one more fact behind it, the same way the strength trend has the sets behind it.

There is no recovery editing, no sliders and no manual override. The figure reads the log, and the log is what you did.

Frequently asked questions

How does Aveldo calculate muscle recovery?

Every completed set takes a fixed slice off its muscle group's recovery, and time pays it back linearly, with a group returning from fully fatigued to fresh in 72 hours. A typical session of nine to twelve sets on one group is back to fresh in roughly two to three days; a lighter session recovers faster. It is a model from your log, not a measurement of your body.

What does 'ready to train' mean in Aveldo?

The overall recovery percentage across all sixteen muscle groups, with the count of groups that are ready, the count still recovering, and the most fatigued group with its time to full recovery.

Can I see which muscles a routine trains and how recovered they are?

Yes, with Aveldo Pro. Routine readiness on the Recovery Details screen shows one dial per routine with the recovery of the muscles its sets load, so you can see which routine your body is ready for.

Is the recovery figure medical advice?

No. It is arithmetic on the sets you logged and how long ago you logged them. It does not know how you slept or ate, and it is not a substitute for how you feel or for professional advice.

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