What the fortnightly review is reading

It reads the log, not the plan

The review does not ask what you were supposed to do. It reads what you recorded: which sets came in at the top of their range, which stopped short, which exercises never happened at all.

That is why the log matters more than the plan, and why a session recorded as planned when it was not quietly corrupts the next two weeks. The proposal is only ever as good as what it was given.

Four things it can conclude

Every proposed change comes with the signal behind it, in plain words rather than a score:

• At the ceiling — you finished at the top of the range repeatedly, so it adds work. Often a set rather than weight, which is the more conservative of the two.
• Below the floor — you kept stopping short of what was asked, so it lowers the prescription to what is actually happening rather than keep asking for what is not.
• Skipped — prescribed far more often than done. It proposes replacing the movement, on the grounds that something not being done is not training.
• Not enough data — it says so and changes nothing. Silence is an answer here, not a gap.

Why every change shows its evidence

Each proposed line says what it saw and what it was before: finished at the top of the range across five sessions, was four sets of ten. That is there so you can disagree with it specifically rather than in general.

Disagreeing specifically is the useful kind. 'It wants too much' is hard to act on; 'it read five sessions at the ceiling, but three of those were the lighter dumbbells because the rack was taken' is a correction you can make in one edit.

Nothing changes until you say so

The proposal is not applied. Your live plan is untouched while you read it, you can edit any routine before answering, and declining changes nothing at all and asks again in a fortnight.

This is deliberate, and it is why the review is offered rather than pushed. A plan that rewrote itself every two weeks on evidence you never saw would be a plan you stopped trusting, and a plan you do not trust is one you stop following.